This is a $14,700 firm fixed price purchase order awarded to Psomagen Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, by the Northeast Area of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The contract is for the provision of RNA sample quality control, Illumina RNA library preparation, and NovaSeq 10B sequencing services for 140 pig intestine samples. This requirement was originally solicited as a 100% Small Business Set-Aside under NAICS code 541714 (Research and Development in Biotechnology). Psomagen, a subsidiary...
This is a $1,522 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Psomagen Inc., a small business contractor, for sequencing of DNA libraries using the Illumina NovaSeq X Plus instrument. The contract is a 100% small business set-aside under NAICS code 541714 with a 1,000-employee size standard. The contract requires Psomagen to provide NovaSeq X Plus 10B (2x150bp) sequencing of government-furnished pooled cDNA libraries,...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service awarded a $152,998.98 firm fixed-price purchase order to Illumina, Inc. to provide a next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform to support research on North American Atlantic salmon aquaculture and genetic improvement. This procurement does not have a set-aside designation. Through previous federal contract awards, Illumina has provided sequencing instruments, reagents, and bioinformatics products to support genomic...
This is a $43,940.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northeast Area to Seqcenter LLC for whole genome sequencing services using Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) DNA sequencing systems. The contract covers sequencing of 48 rainbow trout DNA samples to provide at least 10x genome coverage per sample. This requirement was set aside for small businesses under NAICS code 541380 - Testing Laboratories and Services,...
This is a $64,800 firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to Psomagen Inc. for RNA sequencing services to support neurodegenerative disease research. The contract has a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. Psomagen will provide total RNA sequencing, including library preparation, sequencing, and data delivery, for 324 human samples. This is a non-competitive award, as Psomagen...
The US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $16,537.60 firm fixed price delivery order against an unspecified government-wide acquisition contract to Illumina, Inc. to provide next generation sequencing consumables and services in support of laboratory operations. The delivery order calls for one Nextera XT DNA Library Preparation Kit capable of processing 96 samples, one Nextera XT Index Kit with indexes for 96 samples and the ability to sequence 384 total...
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 firm-fixed price purchase order for $600,000 was awarded by the National Institute on Aging, a component of the National Institutes of Health within the Department of Health and Human Services, to Psomagen, Inc. for whole genome sequencing services. Under the terms of the contract, Psomagen will sequence 1,000 human samples to 30x coverage using Illumina sequencing technologies and deliver raw sequencing data files within 4-6 weeks. The work will be performed in Potomac, Maryland over a one...
This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service to Illumina, Inc., a manufacturer of genomic sequencing instruments and related products. The contract is for the procurement of an Illumina MiSeq DNA sequencer, with a potential value of $100,980.00. The award does not utilize any set-aside provisions and is intended to support genomic research and analysis work conducted by the agency. Illumina has a history of providing sequencing...
This is a $206,250 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a civilian agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. The contract is for total RNA sequencing services, with an option to increase the value. The awardee is Psomagen Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of genomics and molecular biology services based in Rockville, Maryland. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. Psomagen is...
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 per sample at one hundred fifty base pair length for each read. The place of performance is Potomac, Maryland and all work must be completed by July 18, 2022. There is no set-aside designation associated with this award.