Purchase Order 12405B23P0118

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...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $34,385 firm fixed price purchase order to Novogene Corp Inc. to provide RNA sequencing of 265 cotton samples. The solicitation sought a vendor to measure and check the RNA quantity and quality, construct a specialized library using the samples, sequence the library using next-generation sequencing to generate short reads, and upload the results to a hard disk. The work is to be completed within 45 business days of receipt...

This firm fixed-price purchase order for $34,000 was awarded by the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery to Dante Labs Inc. to sequence 230 cotton DNA samples. The original solicitation sought these sequencing services to generate approximately 24GB of data per sample using Illumina 2000 or NovaSeq instruments, with samples to be returned on a hard disk within 45 business days of receipt. The award is associated with...

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 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 $23,600 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to North Carolina State University (NC State) on July 20, 2018. The contract is for DNA sequencing services using the Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform, with a requirement to provide a minimum of 200 million reads per lane at a read length of 125 base pairs. The contract has a 21-day turnaround for sample processing and data delivery. This sole source...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Dante Labs Inc., a foreign-owned small disadvantaged business, for the sequencing of 170 cotton DNA samples. The total contract value is $25,845.93 and the work must be completed by June 7, 2024. The contract was set aside for small businesses under NAICS code 541714 (Research and Development in Biotechnology). Dante Labs will perform DNA...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $248,411.52 firm fixed price delivery order to Illumina, Inc., a manufacturer of sequencing and genomic analysis solutions, for the provision of ISELECT 24X1 HTS CUSTOM DNA ANALYSIS KIT (288 SAMPLES) and INFINIUM XT ISELECT-96 KIT (1152 SAMPLES). This award is not associated with a set-aside program. Illumina has a history of supporting genomic sequencing and analysis needs across various federal agencies, including the NIH,...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $13,440 purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation for targeted genotyping by sequencing of 1,344 wheat samples with the AgriSeq wheat genotyping panel. Per the original solicitation, the contractor will perform DNA library preparation on the wheat samples, sequencing of the prepared libraries, and delivery of variant calls in genotype and VCF formats. The work will be carried out in Carlsbad, California and delivered...

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...