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 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...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Dante Labs Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business located in New York. The $13,519.51 contract is for the sequencing of 207 cotton RNA samples within 45 business days. Dante Labs will first measure the RNA quantity and quality, then construct a specialized library and sequence the RNA using next-generation sequencing technology. This...
The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract to Dante Labs Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, to provide genomic sequencing and analysis services. The $16,800.00 contract requires Dante Labs to perform strand-specific mRNA library preparation, NovaSeq 6000 sequencing, data quality control, and secure data transfer for cotton and grapevine genetics research within 21 days or less....
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...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area awarded a $23,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Dante Labs Inc. of New York, New York. The contract is for RNA extraction and sequencing services to support USDA-ARS's agricultural research efforts. The contract has a performance period of one year, from September 2025 through September 2026. It has a total small business set aside designation. Dante Labs will...
Dante Labs Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, has been awarded a $62,119 firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to provide DNA sequencing and analysis services in support of agricultural research efforts. The contract requires Dante Labs to perform whole genome sequencing, quality control, and data delivery for 440 soybean samples to enable gene discovery and breeding applications. This effort...
This is a $144,565.55 firm-fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Dante Labs Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business based in New York. The contract is for whole-genome sequencing of 865 pecan provenance collection samples. It was competitively awarded under a small business set-aside based on the best value to the government, considering technical capability, price, and past...
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...