Purchase Order 1232SA26P0107
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- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to Elementar Americas, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit small business, valued at $88,876.87. The contract is for the provision of a Combustion Carbon and Nitrogen Analyzer, which will be used to analyze carbon and nitrogen content in plant and soil samples. These measurements are foundational for understanding nutrient dynamics, productivity, plant health, and climate...
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Elementar Americas, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit organization. The $91,037.69 contract is for the procurement of an elemental carbon and nitrogen analyzer to support the ARS Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research Laboratory in Kimberly, Idaho. The contract was set aside for small businesses and had a delivery timeline of 90 calendar days. The analyzer must...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order contract worth $75,843.52 to Elementar Americas, Inc. (a foreign-owned, for-profit small business) for an elemental analyzer capable of analyzing carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur. This contract has a performance period from July 2024 to September 2024 and does not utilize a set-aside designation. The solicitation for this contract was issued as a 100% small business set-aside,...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service has awarded a $264,635.78 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Elementar Americas, Inc. to provide a combustion elemental analyzer, stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer, Gilson-like autosampler, computer system, and related software. This equipment will support soil analysis, nutrient dynamics, plant health, climate impact, and environmental monitoring research conducted by the agency. The contract has no set-aside designation....
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $80,890.51 to Elementar Americas, Inc. for a Nitrogen Analyzer to support the Dairy and Functional Foods Research facility in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. The contract, designated as a Total Small Business Set Aside under NAICS code 334516, was awarded on September 28, 2025, following a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable evaluation of responses to RFQ #1232SA25Q0761. The procurement...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $26,971.67 firm fixed-price purchase order to Elementar Americas, Inc. for maintenance and parts services supporting analytical instrumentation at the ARS Riverside, California facility. Specifically, the contract covers maintenance and replacement parts for a Vario Pyro Cube elemental analyzer (Serial Number 18123022) and an IsoPrime 100 isotope ratio mass spectrometer (Serial Number JD511). The award was...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service awarded a $6,750 firm fixed-price purchase order to Elementar Americas, Inc. on October 1, 2024, for preventative maintenance services on a SoliTOC Carbon Analyzer used by the Soil Science Research Branch. The contract, which concludes on September 30, 2025, was awarded without a set-aside designation through simplified acquisition procedures and represents a sole-source award to the vendor. Performance will take place...
- Elementar Americas, Inc. was awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $5,665.00 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) Northeast Area on August 20, 2018. The contract, referencing Quote No. 00566500 from vendor Kerry Fichter, requires the contractor to provide two preventative maintenance visits for a Vario TOC Cube analytical instrument located at the USDA ARS Agricultural Soils Chemistry and Soil Biology Laboratory (ACSL) in Beltsville,...
- The Agricultural Research Service's Agroecosystem Research Management Unit in Lincoln, Nebraska has awarded a purchase order to Costech Analytical Technologies, Inc. for the procurement of a carbon-nitrogen analyzer. The existing equipment, which has been in service for over ten years, no longer complies with current ARS information technology guidance and requirements. This $51,395 firm fixed-price contract was awarded on April 18, 2021, following a competitive small business set-aside...
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Resources Conservation Service, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to Elementar Americas, Inc. (a foreign-owned, for-profit organization) for the service contract of a Solitoc carbon analyzer. The contract has a ceiling value of $5,500.00 and a completion date of September 16, 2025. No set-aside was used for this award. Elementar Americas, Inc. specializes in providing analytical...
On March 9, 2026, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $95,463.26 firm fixed-price purchase order to Elementar Americas, Inc., a small business analytical instrumentation company headquartered in Ronkonkoma, New York. The contract covers the procurement and delivery of one Carbon/Nitrogen Analyzer designed to analyze soil and plant material using high-temperature combustion methodology. The analyzer includes a 90-position top-loading sampler, capability to process up to one gram of organic samples or four milliliters of aqueous samples, and a third furnace for catalytic post-combustion to ensure complete nitrogen conversion. The instrument will be delivered to the USDA ARS Agroecosystem Management Research Unit at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a completion deadline of April 30, 2026. This acquisition was designated as a Total Small Business Set-Aside, restricting competition to qualified small business concerns. Elementar Americas brings substantial federal contracting experience in supplying advanced analytical instruments and technical support services to civilian research agencies, including USDA, the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company specializes in providing elemental analyzers, isotope ratio mass spectrometers, and related laboratory equipment that support critical federal research in environmental monitoring, soil analysis, and nutrient dynamics assessment. The contract award follows a competitive solicitation issued February 9, 2026, with evaluation criteria based on lowest price technically acceptable methodology, pricing competitiveness, technical capability relative to specified salient characteristics, and past performance.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Carbon/Nitrogen Analyzer to Analyze Soil and Plant Material | 1232SA26Q0050 | Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service | Solicitation 1/2 | 2/9/26, 9:40 AM | |
Carbon/Nitrogen Analyzer to Analyze Soil and Plant Material | 1232SA26Q0050 | Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service | Award Notice 2/2 | 3/9/26, 5:05 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $95.5k | 3/8/26 |