Purchase Order 12505B25P0018

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Midwest Area awarded a $20,780 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Biodiscovery LLC, doing business as Daicel Arbor Biosciences, for the delivery of biotinylated RNA-based bait enrichment kits for research on citrus and sugar beets. This award is not associated with a set-aside program. The kits will support the USDA's Sugar Beet and Bean Research Unit in its work to develop new agricultural biotechnology and diagnostic applications. As a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of specialized genomic and molecular biology products, Biodiscovery LLC has a long history of supplying customized reagents, DNA sequencing services, and other research tools to federal agencies, including the Defense Health Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Smithsonian Institution.