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...
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 $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...
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. has been awarded a $28,184.12 firm fixed price purchase order from the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide sequencing services in support of the agency's research efforts. As a small disadvantaged business, this contract falls under the Total Small Business set-aside designation. Per the award details, Dante Labs will perform strand-specific mRNA library preparation, quality control checks, high-throughput NovaSeq sequencing, and...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) to Dante Labs Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business based in New York. The contract, valued at $24,405.00, is for DNA sequencing services to support environmental DNA projects surveying endangered, at-risk, and invasive species as well as whole community biodiversity on military lands. The contract was set aside for...
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,...
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 Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to Dante Labs Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, to provide sequencing services. The $5,556.80 contract is a total small business set-aside under NAICS code 541990 for biological product and preparation manufacturing. The services will support NOAA's research objectives by sequencing genetic samples from marine organisms using Illumina...
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service has awarded a $102,964.37 firm fixed price delivery order to Illumina, Inc., a manufacturer of sequencing and genomic analysis equipment and reagents, for the provision of 21 NextSeq 500/550 High Output Kits (300 cycles). This order is not associated with a set-aside contract. Illumina has previously been awarded prime federal contracts by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and...