This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Eurofins Scientific, Inc. for $28,800.00 to provide cottonseed analysis services. The contract supports the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Cotton Ginning Research Unit (CGRU) and does not have a set-aside designation. The services include quality trait analysis and protein concentration analysis of cottonseed samples. This contract award is part of Eurofins' ongoing work...
This is a firm-fixed price contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Southeast Area to Novogene Corp Inc., a minority-owned small business, for whole genome sequencing of cotton DNA. The contract is valued at $88,000.00 and has an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2025. The contract was awarded under a solicitation that was not a set-aside, seeking quotes for whole genome sequencing of at least 1,000 cotton plant samples,...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS) to Life Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The $35,000.00 contract is for a custom genotyping-by-sequencing service to analyze 4,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Gossypium hirsutum (upland cotton) samples using Life Technologies' Ion Torrent sequencing platform. The award was made on a sole-source basis without a...
This is a federal contract award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Eurofins Scientific, Inc., a provider of testing and support services. The contract, valued at $94,846.93, is for monitoring nutrient levels and bioactive components in U.S. foods. The work will be performed in Des Moines, Iowa. This contract is not associated with a set-aside designation. Eurofins Scientific has previously received other federal contract awards from the USDA for agricultural research services,...
<p>This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Eurofins Product Safety Labs Inc. for $101,439.00 to conduct tests on weed suppressive bacteria. The contract has an ultimate completion date of November 10, 2017. The primary USDA agencies involved are the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). This contract was not set aside for any particular business type.</p>
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery awarded a $33,850 firm fixed price purchase order to Novogene Corp Inc. to sequence 200 cotton DNA samples. Per the original solicitation, the contractor will measure DNA quantity and quality, construct a specialized library using a PCR-free preparation method, sequence the library using next-generation sequencing to generate 24 gigabytes of sequence data for each sample, and...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Agriculture's Southeast Area to Uster Technologies, Inc., a global leader in textile testing and quality control. The contract is for the procurement of an Uster AFIS PRO 2 (Advanced Fiber Information System) for cotton fiber testing, with a ceiling value of $230,000.00 and a completion date of December 10, 2019. Uster Technologies, Inc. is a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer that has provided a wide range of goods and...
This is a $26,300.10 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded to O & A Enterprises Inc. by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for the infield screening and evaluation of 87 cotton lines for Fusarium Race-4 susceptibility/tolerance. The original contract opportunity was a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 111920 (Cotton Farming). The contract supports the USDA ARS's Genetics and Sustainable Agriculture program located in...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the USDA's Southeast Area to Uster Technologies, Inc. for an annual service contract covering an AFIS Pro 2 instrument, including travel, with a ceiling value of $56,275.08. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2027. Uster Technologies, Inc. is the global leader in textile testing and quality control, providing a wide range of goods and services to federal agencies for cotton and tobacco testing programs. This award is...
This firm-fixed-price purchase order worth $39,960.00 was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service to Texas Tech University System to provide cotton fiber testing services. The contract requires the analysis of 5,400 cotton samples over a six-month period to determine fiber properties such as color, trash content, micronaire, length, and strength using high volume instrument (HVI) testing methods. This work supports the agency's objectives related to cotton...