This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Farm-Ng Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and manufacturer of goods, for the delivery of one Amiga 66-inch robot platform with a research kit. The contract has a ceiling value of $37,310.38 and a completion date of June 18, 2024. The robot platform features advanced components like the Nvidia Xavier system-on-module and Luxonis cameras,...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at sixty-seven thousand four hundred twenty dollars ($67,420) to Farm-Ng Inc. of Burlingame, California. The contract is set aside for small disadvantaged businesses and calls for Farm-Ng to provide three self-propelled mobile electric robot platforms with adjustable widths for multiple crop applications. An intelligence kit including an Nvidia Xavier system-on-module, Luxonis...
This federal contract award is for the procurement of an electric mobility platform by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The contract was awarded to Farm-Ng Inc., a small disadvantaged business and manufacturer of goods specializing in advanced agricultural robotics and autonomous platforms. The contract, valued at $28,389.24, is a firm fixed-price purchase order set aside for small businesses under NAICS code 333111 for Motor Vehicle Body...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $18,649.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Suncore Distribution LLC, a minority-owned small business, for the supply of a quadruped robot and LIDAR system. The contract is for the Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Lab (GIFVL) in Beltsville, Maryland to support mapping plants in research fields and capturing images/data of research plants. This contract was set aside for small...
This federal contract award is for a Fully Integrated Field Phenotyping Rover/Robot, valued at $14,999.00, awarded to Earthsense Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The contract was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and does not have a set-aside designation. The rover is intended to support the USDA-ARS Plant Genetics Research Unit's efforts to quickly and accurately phenotype corn plants in the field to better understand...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $14,999 firm fixed-price purchase order to Earthsense Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of a Cover Crop Planting Robot. The contract has a completion date of July 11, 2024. Earthsense Inc. is a manufacturer of agricultural phenotyping rovers and robots that support the Agricultural Research Service's research efforts across the Midwest and Pacific West regions. This contract award...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Agriteer LLC, a small business, for $164,000.00 to furnish, deliver, and set up a self-propelled harvester. The contract has a base period plus four option years and the ultimate completion date is August 6, 2028. The harvester with a quick attach hay head and corn head will be used for harvesting and producing corn silage and grass silage at the USDA's Dairy...
This federal contract award, valued at $14,999.00, was made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) to Earthsense Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to provide a fully integrated phenotyping field rover. The rover is designed to quickly and accurately phenotype corn plants in the field to better understand their growth under different agronomic and environmental variables. The rover is equipped with cameras, LIDAR sensors, GPS, and software to...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Midwest Area awarded a $148,140 firm fixed price purchase order to Clearpath Robotics Inc. of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to deliver two mobile platforms for material handling and phenotyping. Per the original solicitation, the platforms must have omnidirectional mobility, expandable power and computing options, compatibility with third-party sensors and accessories, and use an...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Modernag Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the purchase of a GPS guidance system for a 2019 Case Maxxum 115 tractor and Wintersteiger Plotking 2600 planter. The contract, valued at $19,155.00, has an ultimate completion date of December 3, 2021. The purpose of this contract is to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of agricultural...