The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $79,370 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Skyfront Corp, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for an 8-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone. This contract was competed as a 100% small business set-aside under NAICS code 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing). The contract supports USDA ARS mission requirements for surveillance, magnetic surveys, and LiDAR mapping. Skyfront Corp has provided UAVs,...
This contract award to Vision Aerial Inc., a small business manufacturer of drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), is for a high-payload capacity hexacopter seeder drone. The $32,935 firm-fixed price purchase order was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to support research and development of improved cover crop systems for dairy farms. The seeder drone is required to have a payload capacity of 11 pounds, enabling it to plant a variety of...
This firm-fixed-price federal contract for $13,555 was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Vision Aerial Inc., a small business manufacturer of professional drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) based in Bozeman, Montana. The contract is for the delivery of a small UAS (sUAS or drone) with a custom mount, to be used by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Soil Management Research Unit in Morris, Minnesota. The sUAS will be integrated with existing MicaSense RedEdge...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $18,215.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Sky Flight Robotics Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of a DJI Matrice 200 hexacopter drone with a MicaSense Altum sensor kit. This contract supports research programs at the USDA's Dairy Forage Research Center in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, which focus on assessing the economic and environmental performance of crop-dairy livestock systems. The drone and sensor package...
This firm fixed price purchase order, valued at $58,723.84, was awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery to Drone Nerds Inc. to deliver two Freefly Astro unmanned aircraft systems. The systems will include Astro bases with landing gear and props, mapping payloads, controllers, vibration isolators, spare parts, four SL8 air batteries, and two SL8 fast chargers as requested in Solicitation...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $35,650 firm fixed price purchase order to Inspired Flight Technologies, Inc. for an unmanned aerial system. The contract has a period of performance from July 21, 2023 to September 21, 2023 and is set aside for total small business. Inspired Flight Technologies will provide an unmanned aerial system to support the USDA ARS AATRU's research requirements. The...
This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Midwest Area division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Caron East, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation. The $26,043.24 contract is for a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) drone with a custom gimbal mount system, to be used by the ARS Long-Term Agroecosystems Research (LTAR) project and plot-scale research at the Swan Lake Research Farm. The system must meet specific...
The USDA Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area awarded a $40,044 firm fixed price purchase order to Aero Systems West, Inc. for a Precision Drone for Fertilizer Application. Per the solicitation, the drone must be delivered to East Wareham, Massachusetts and comply with the October 2022 Buy American Certificate. Aero Systems West will provide the requested Precision Drone for Fertilizer Application to support the USDA ARS's research...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $70,644.98 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Drone Nerds Inc., a for-profit small business headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The contract is for the delivery of a Freefly drone and components, with a completion date of November 30, 2023. This award is not a small business set-aside. Drone Nerds Inc. has a strong track record of supporting federal UAS initiatives across multiple government agencies,...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order for $34,241.00 awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Sky Flight Robotics Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for a drone with multispectral imager and camera to be used by ARS researchers to monitor barley crops and evaluate traits related to abiotic stress tolerance and malt quality. The original solicitation was a sources sought notice to determine availability of small...