Purchase Order 1232SA24P0034

This federal contract award is for the renewal of a subscription to the "Pro" edition of the iThenticate plagiarism detection service from Turnitin, LLC. The contract provides 1,000 document submission credits and up to 500 user licenses. Valued at $55,507.91, this firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), specifically the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), to Turnitin, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company that specializes in plagiarism detection software. The contract has no set-aside designation and is intended to support the ARS's need for an online tool to ensure the originality and proper citation of scientific articles and documents submitted for publication. This award is related to a sources sought notice previously issued by the USDA ARS for a subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) plagiarism checking solution compatible with CrossRef Similarity Check Services and covering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) literature.