Purchase Order 12505B24P0143

This $20,600 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Superior Livestock, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to provide twelve colostrum deprived Holstein or Holstein/cross calves. The calves will be used in research to evaluate the nasopharyngeal colonization of Mannheimia haemolytica and its isogenic mutants in cattle at the USDA's National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa. This contract was set aside for small businesses and is part of the USDA-ARS's ongoing efforts to support agricultural research through the acquisition of specialized livestock.