Purchase Order 1232SA25P0558
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- This firm fixed price purchase order for $51,700 was awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service to Cryogenetics, Inc. to provide cryopreserved Atlantic salmon and lumpfish sperm. The award stems from a sources sought notice issued by the USDA ARS National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center seeking sources capable of cryopreserving Atlantic salmon sperm from up to 30 fish per year in ten straws or three packs, along with lumpfish sperm cryopreserved...
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to the Center for Aquaculture Technologies, Inc., a for-profit small business entity. The contract, valued at $6,048.00, is for broodstock microsatellite genotyping services to be performed in Franklin, Maine. The contract has no set-aside designation and is intended to support the agency's aquaculture research program in the Northeast region. The...
- This is a firm fixed price purchase order for $177,000.83 awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Kennebec River Biosciences, Inc. for fish health testing and broodstock spawning testing services for Atlantic salmon and lumpfish. The contract has a performance period from March 15, 2024 to January 31, 2028 and is not designated as a set-aside. Kennebec River Biosciences is a for-profit manufacturer of goods structured as a Subchapter S corporation that specializes in aquatic...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $132,696.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Center For Aquaculture Technologies, Inc. (CAT), a small business, for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array genotyping in support of North American Atlantic salmon research in fiscal year 2022. The contract has a completion date of December 31, 2022. CAT is an established provider of aquaculture research support services, including DNA extraction,...
- This is a $76,032 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to the Center for Aquaculture Technologies, Inc., a small business. The contract is for high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping on 2,304 rainbow trout DNA samples using a 57K SNP array. This work supports the USDA ARS's National Center for Cool and Coldwater Aquaculture research program in Kearneysville, West Virginia. The contract is a...
- This federal contract award was issued by the Northeast Area of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Center For Aquaculture Technologies, Inc., doing business as Center For Aquaculture Techn Ologies. The $112,244.88 firm fixed price delivery order contract covers a range of genetic and genomic services for aquaculture research, including DNA extraction, genotyping, and Certificate of Origin (COO) testing for Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, and...
- This is a $35,100 Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northeast Area to the Center for Aquaculture Technologies, Inc., a for-profit company located in San Diego, California. The contract is for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping and parentage assignment services in rainbow trout. This contract is not a set-aside and represents a strategic partnership between the USDA ARS...
- This is a firm fixed price delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area to Center For Aquaculture Technologies, Inc. (doing business as Center For Aquaculture Techn Ologies), a for-profit organization. The $162,502.65 contract requires the contractor to provide DNA extraction, split into 3 aliquots, with 2 returned and 1 genotyped, for genotyping of salmon samples....
- This is a federal contract award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Kennebec River Biosciences, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods and provider of aquatic animal health testing services based in Richmond, Maine. The contract is a delivery order under a larger Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $300,000, which is a total small business set-aside. The current award is for $34,295.51 and covers conducting Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus (ISAV) testing, a specialized...
- This firm fixed-price purchase order contract for $52,391.68 was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Kennebec River Biosciences, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods structured as a Subchapter S corporation located in Richmond, Maine. The contract is for salmonid and lumpfish fish health testing services, with a period of performance through January 16, 2024. Kennebec River Biosciences is a specialized laboratory service provider that supports the USDA's Animal and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $67.5K firm fixed price purchase order to Cryogenetics, Inc., a small business, for cryopreservation services supporting Atlantic salmon and lumpfish sperm preservation at the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center in Franklin, Maine. Under this total small business set-aside contract, Cryogenetics will preserve 60 Atlantic salmon sperm samples annually (240 packs capable of fertilizing 5,000 eggs each) from October through December, and 60 lumpfish sperm samples (300 straws capable of fertilizing 200 eggs per straw) from March through May. The contractor must supply cryopreservation products, including AquaBoost Activators and SpermCoat products, that maintain milt viability for up to two weeks when stored at 4 degrees Celsius and provide detailed analysis reports documenting sperm concentration, motility, and contamination data for each sample. The contract runs from September 29, 2025 through September 28, 2026, with four one-year option periods extending through September 28, 2030, though lumpfish preservation services are limited to a single year of performance. Work will be performed at the contractor's Franklin, Maine facility, with samples ultimately shipped on an FOB destination basis to the Agricultural Genetic Resources Preservation Research facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. The award was made under RFQ 1232SA25Q0843 using a lowest-priced technically acceptable evaluation methodology, with NAICS code 541990 and a small business size standard of $19.5 million.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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CRYOPRESERVATION OF ATLANTIC SALMON SPERM - Franklin, ME | 1232SA25P0558 | Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service | Award Notice 2/2 | 9/29/25, 12:15 PM | |
CRYOPRESERVATION OF ATLANTIC SALMON SPERM - Franklin, ME | 1232SA25Q0843 | Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service | Solicitation 1/2 | 9/19/25, 2:10 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $18.6k | 9/29/25 |