This federal contract award, with a value of $10,200.00, was issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to LC Sciences, a small business that is minority-owned, woman-owned, and a manufacturer of goods. The contract is for mRNA sequencing services, specifically the preparation of mRNA strand-specific libraries, RNA sequencing, data quality control, and the provision of sequencing data files. This contract was awarded as a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside, with an ultimate completion...
This is a $20,665.50 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service to Research & Testing Laboratory Of The South Plains LLC. The contract is for the preparation of amplicon libraries, quality control, and Illumina high throughput sequencing of 624 samples (312 individuals x2) with a minimum of 50,000 reads per sample and an average of 150,000 reads. The work must be completed by December 1, 2024. This contract did not use a...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $38,350 firm fixed price purchase order to Seqmatic, LLC for ALFALFA RNA SEQUENCING FROM NINE GENOTYPES. The solicitation requested Illumina RNA sequencing of alfalfa samples to support the agency's agricultural research efforts. As a total small business set-aside awarded under the LPTA process, the contract calls for Seqmatic to provide library sequencing services at its St. Paul, Minnesota location within 90 days of the...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Diagenode, LLC, a small business vendor, for DNA sequencing services. The $12,150.26 contract has a performance period ending on January 31, 2022 and was set aside for 100% small business participation. The original solicitation, Solicitation Number 1250B21R0019, was a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial testing laboratory services under NAICS code 541380. The USDA sought proposals to...
This is a $61,076.40 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service to Element Biosciences, Inc., doing business as Element Biosciences Inc. The contract is for next generation sequencing services to support single molecule synthetic full length microbiome studies at the USDA's Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. The contract was awarded on September 1, 2022 and has an ultimate completion date of August...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $57,534.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to Government Scientific Source Inc., a small business distributor of laboratory products and equipment, for Enzymatic Methyl-Seq services including DNA extraction, library preparation, and sequencing of 106 tissue samples collected from cattle. This contract was awarded under a Total Small Business set-aside as a simplified acquisition under FAR Part 13. The period of...
This federal contract award is for genome sequencing services for 32,000 samples, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Rapid Genomics LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The $25,350 firm-fixed-price contract is for services including DNA library preparation, next-generation sequencing, and bioinformatics analysis of sugarcane samples. This award is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and was not set aside for small...
This is a $158,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service to Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. for an 8M upgrade to their Sequel System DNA/RNA sequencing platform. The award was made under a sole-source basis without a set-aside, as Pacific Biosciences is the sole manufacturer and distributor of the Sequel System technology. The upgrade is intended to enable deeper long-read sequencing of limited samples with high...
This federal contract was awarded by the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service to Quick Biology Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for next-generation RNA sequencing services. The $112,476.00 firm fixed price purchase order includes library preparation, quality control, and 2x150 paired-end read length for 720 samples with 25 million reads per sample. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and the period of performance runs through...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $34,385 firm fixed price purchase order to Novogene Corp Inc. to provide RNA sequencing of 265 cotton samples. The solicitation sought a vendor to measure and check the RNA quantity and quality, construct a specialized library using the samples, sequence the library using next-generation sequencing to generate short reads, and upload the results to a hard disk. The work is to be completed within 45 business days of receipt...