This contract award is for the procurement of an USTER HVI1000 M 1000 high-volume instrument (HVI) system by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service. The $280,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded to Uster Technologies, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of textile testing and quality control equipment based in Knoxville, Tennessee. The contract has a completion date of November 16, 2018 and was not set aside for small businesses. Uster Technologies is a global leader in providing sophisticated technological solutions for fiber analysis, with a primary focus on serving the agricultural sector through HVI systems and related services. This contract supports the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service's Cotton and Tobacco Program, which utilizes advanced textile testing and measurement technologies to enable precise cotton and tobacco quality assessment.