Purchase Order 12349B19P0029

This is a fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Seqmatic, LLC, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small business, for whole-genome sequencing of 96 rainbow trout samples at 30X coverage. The contract has a total ceiling value of $32,656.00 and a completion date of December 5, 2024. The original solicitation was a sources sought notice for market research, seeking providers of genomic sequencing...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $40,277.52 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Genohub, Inc. of Austin, Texas to provide high molecular weight DNA extraction from trout fin clip tissue and PacBio sequencing of 12 rainbow trout samples in CCS mode. This contract has a 100% total small business set aside and work will be performed at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland by November 30, 2022 to support research at the agency's...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded to Genewiz, LLC, a small business contract research organization, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture (NCCCWA). The contract, valued at $27,550.00, is for PacBio whole genome sequencing of 30 rainbow trout samples to support structural genome variants analysis. The work is being performed under a total small business set-aside solicitation and will...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $110,000 firm fixed price contract to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York for genomic services supporting lake trout restoration efforts in Lake Ontario. Per the solicitation, the contractor will compile genomic diversity data related to thiamine metabolism from multiple lake trout populations using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing and established analytical pipelines. The sequencing and computational...

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 is a $65,860 firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to the University of Delaware to provide whole genome sequencing services. The contract was awarded through a competitive solicitation that was set aside for small businesses. The University of Delaware is providing sequencing of two genomic DNA samples (one rainbow trout and one Atlantic salmon) using PacBio sequencing systems, with specific requirements...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order for $187,478.00 awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Center for Aquaculture Technologies, Inc. (CAT), a small business, for whole genome sequencing and genotype imputation of rainbow trout samples. The contract has a completion date of December 30, 2022. The contract was issued under a total small business set-aside, as part of the USDA ARS Field Research Implementation and Information...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract valued at twenty-four thousand nine hundred sixty dollars to Psomagen Inc. to sequence ninety-six RNA samples of fish. Under the contract, Psomagen will perform gene library creation and sequencing services for each sample, including library creation for Illumina sequencing using poly(A) selection and Illumina high-throughput sequencing at a depth of twenty-five million paired-end reads...

The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $30,620 fixed-price purchase order to Floragenex, Inc. to conduct RNA sequencing and transcriptome assembly analysis of river herring. The prime contractor, Floragenex, is a subsidiary of Sedia Biosciences Corporation, which will perform the work in Beaverton, Oregon over a one-year period concluding in July 2024. The sequencing and analysis will support NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to Azenta US Inc., doing business as Brooks Life Sciences Inc., for Illumina sequencing of rainbow trout DNA samples. The $22,824.00 contract has a completion date of March 8, 2024 and does not have a set-aside designation. Azenta US Inc. is a subsidiary of the larger Azenta, Inc. (also known as Brooks), a global provider of equipment, services, and consumables for temperature control, sample...