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...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $52,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Admera Health LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to extend the application of single-cell sequencing technology with the latest generation of genomics technologies. The contract has a period of performance through September 24, 2025. The award is not set aside, but Admera Health has a history of being awarded USDA contracts set aside...
This federal contract award was issued by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), to Illumina, Inc., a leading manufacturer of genetic sequencing and genomic analysis technologies. The $21,857 firm fixed-price delivery order is intended to cover the diagnosis and repair of a malfunctioning Illumina NextSeq500 sequencing instrument used by ARS's Western Regional Small Grain Genotyping Labs. This contract is not associated with a...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $58,750 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Novogene Corp Inc., a minority-owned small business, for metagenomic bioinformatics analysis services. The contract, set aside for small businesses, requires Novogene to analyze 1,275 soil and water DNA samples using shotgun and amplicon metagenomic sequencing. This work will be performed at the USDA ARS Salinity Laboratory in Riverside, California....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northeast Area awarded a $110,400 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Mirxes Pte. LTD., a for-profit organization, for specialized stereo-sequencing services. The contract supports advanced genomic research and technology development, particularly in the areas of gene activity measurement and DNA sequencing for agricultural applications, such as genetic improvement of ruminants. This award is one of multiple...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $110,592 firm fixed-price purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Thermo Electron Corporation. The contract is for the delivery of custom 60K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays and associated reagents and consumables to expand the high-throughput genotyping capabilities of the USDA ARS Shellfish Genetics Laboratory in Lincoln, Nebraska. This full and open solicitation was not...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has awarded a $36,000 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Mirxes Pte. LTD., a for-profit organization specializing in advanced genomic sequencing services. The contract, identified as MIRXES - 4 CHIP STEREO-SEQ SERVICE, is for the provision of spatial transcriptomics capability with 500-nanometer resolution to support the Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory's mission. This contract, which has a...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $91,900 firm fixed-price purchase order to Molecular Epidemiology Inc., a woman-owned small business, to conduct analysis of human serum samples for concentrations of choline, carnitine, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), and related compounds. This work supports the USDA Meat and Pattern Study and involves using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to measure these analytes. Molecular...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), awarded a $100,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Cosmosid, Inc., a small business contractor, for next-generation sequencing services. The contract, which has a completion date of July 21, 2023, requires Cosmosid to extract DNA and perform shotgun sequencing on hundreds of complex microbial samples. The sequencing data will be analyzed to identify the sample contents at the strain level. This contract is...
This is a $1,522 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Psomagen Inc., a small business contractor, for sequencing of DNA libraries using the Illumina NovaSeq X Plus instrument. The contract is a 100% small business set-aside under NAICS code 541714 with a 1,000-employee size standard. The contract requires Psomagen to provide NovaSeq X Plus 10B (2x150bp) sequencing of government-furnished pooled cDNA libraries,...