The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Big Top Manufacturing LLC, a small business prime contractor, for the delivery of two movable wall-mounted or pony wall structures. The total ceiling value of the contract is $139,150.00, with a period of performance ending on August 31, 2022. The structures, which will be used to store various farm and research equipment at the USDA-ARS Dairy Forage Research Farm in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, must...
This is a $82,582.50 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Midwest Area to Morgan Ingland LLC, a minority-owned and Subcontinent Asian (Asian-Indian) American-owned small disadvantaged business. The contract is for the purchase, removal, and installation of new dairy heifer barn freestall mattresses at the USDA-ARS farm in Stratford, Wisconsin. This procurement was conducted as a total small business set-aside...
This is a $14,850 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) to Maki Farm Services, LLC. The contract is for the replacement of 56 freestall floor bases with pasture mats or an equivalent product at the USDA-ARS/University of Wisconsin research facility in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The original sources sought notice indicated the goal was to improve cow comfort and productivity for feeding studies with lactating cows. The...
This federal contract award is for the construction of a pre-engineered, post frame, metal open-ended building on an existing concrete pad located at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Environmentally Integrated Dairy Management Research Unit (EIDMRU) in Stratford, Wisconsin. The $343,095.00 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded to Brickl Bros., Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation, on September 30, 2024. The building will provide storage for farm equipment and...
The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order for $21,408.00 to River Country Co-Op, a small agricultural cooperative, to provide 48 tons of custom protein premix in three 16-ton deliveries for research on lactating cows at the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station in Stratford, WI. This contract was set aside for total small businesses. River Country Co-Op has previously provided similar protein premix products to the ARS...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $18,024 firm fixed-price purchase order to River Country Co-Op, a small agricultural cooperative, for the delivery of 48 tons of custom protein premix for lactating cows. The contract was set aside for total small businesses and the products were used for research at the USDA-ARS Marshfield Ag Research Station in Stratford, Wisconsin. River Country Co-Op, doing business as River Country Plaza, has...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to KSI Supply Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of various agricultural plastics. The contract, valued at $20,224.00, is a 100% small business set-aside and includes the following items: 6 silage bags (12' x 500' and 8' x 150'), 2 silage bags (8' x 300'), 8 grain bags (9' x 200'), 32 rolls of net wrap (64" x 10,000'), and 8 silage bunker covers (32' x...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $140,615.67 firm fixed-price purchase order to Govage, Inc., a small disadvantaged, woman-owned small business, for greenhouse renovations at the Elsberry Plant Materials Center in Elsberry, Missouri. The contract, which has a 90-calendar-day period of performance, involves installing new double-walled acrylic panels, weather seals, walk-in doors, concrete flooring, cooling systems, overhead lighting, exhaust fan belts, and electrical system...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Superior Livestock, Inc. to provide 8 dairy calves for delivery to the USDA facility in Ames, Iowa on or about June 28, 2024. The potential value of the contract is $18,500.00. The contract was awarded on May 24, 2024 and was not set aside for any socioeconomic program. Superior Livestock, Inc. is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $31,636.80 firm fixed-price delivery order to New Age Custom Farming, LLC, a Wisconsin-based small business LLC, for the 3rd crop alfalfa harvest. This order is part of a larger small business set-aside IDIQ contract awarded in 2021 that provides for alfalfa mowing, chopping, merging, bagging, and storage services to support ARS field research implementation and information delivery efforts in the Midwest...