The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Modernag Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the purchase of a GPS guidance system for a 2019 Case Maxxum 115 tractor and Wintersteiger Plotking 2600 planter. The contract, valued at $19,155.00, has an ultimate completion date of December 3, 2021. The purpose of this contract is to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of agricultural...
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 is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Farm-Ng Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and manufacturer of goods, for the delivery of one Amiga 66-inch robot platform with a research kit. The contract has a ceiling value of $37,310.38 and a completion date of June 18, 2024. The robot platform features advanced components like the Nvidia Xavier system-on-module and Luxonis cameras,...
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...
This $21,511 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Agriculture's Southeast Area to Ayres-Delta Implement, Inc., a woman-owned and veteran-owned small business. The contract is for the delivery of an EZ PILOT AUTO-GUIDANCE SYSTEM - GPS, which will provide advanced GPS guidance and auto-steering capabilities for agricultural research applications. Ayres-Delta Implement, which operates as a Kubota authorized dealer, has previously delivered specialized farm machinery...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Ayres-Delta Implement, Inc., a woman-owned and veteran-owned small business. The $36,073.86 contract is for the purchase and installation of an auto-guide system with a Trimble XCN-2050 display kit on a John Deere 6175R tractor, as well as the set up of a Field IQ rate control system on two Bell Incorporated hydraulic drive fertilizer applicators. The equipment...
This is a $40,935 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Veris Technologies, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for a VERIS U SERIES EC-OM-PH MAPPING SYSTEM. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 7, 2021 and was issued under a total small business set-aside solicitation. The contract was competed and awarded under a combined synopsis/solicitation for a soil optic mapping system...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $95,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to 4D TECH Solutions, LLC, a HUBZone certified, veteran-owned small business, for an UAS LIDAR SENSOR SYSTEM. The contract has a completion date of December 31, 2021 and was awarded on September 2, 2020. 4D TECH Solutions, LLC is a manufacturer of hardware, software, and electro-mechanical products, and has previously supported prime contracts with the Departments of the...
This is a $38,449 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) to Topcon Solutions Inc., doing business as Topcon Solutions Store, for the delivery of a real-time kinematic (RTK) fixed-wing drone, high resolution 3D camera, and thermal/RGB camera. The purpose is to support USDA-ARS research in Ohio examining how agricultural conservation practices impact nutrient losses at the edge-of-field. The drone and cameras will...