The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $303,258 firm fixed price purchase order to Micro Photonics Inc. to deliver an X-ray micro-CT scanner. The solicitation requested quotes for a scanner with resolution under 4 micrometers and scan size up to 96 millimeters, to be delivered and installed at the USDA Vegetable Crops Research Unit in Madison, Wisconsin by October 31, 2023. Accompanying equipment was to include a materials testing stage with a 40-50 Newton load...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to Micro Photonics Inc., a subsidiary of Nanovea, Inc. The contract is for $85,500.00 to provide maintenance on a Skyscan 1173 U438240 micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) scanner. The contract has an ultimate completion date of September 29, 2021. The original solicitation was a special notice stating that Micro Photonics is the only source capable of...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Terzic Instruments LLC, a small business, for the provision of a confocal laser scanning inverted microscope. The contract was awarded on September 29, 2021 with a ceiling value of $245,144.89 and a completion date of January 31, 2022. The microscope will be delivered to the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) facility in Peoria, Illinois. This contract was awarded under a total...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Bruker Scientific LLC, a division of Bruker Corporation, for a MALDI Biotyper instrument service contract. The contract provides for two preventive maintenance service visits and unlimited emergency visits, including parts, labor, travel, and software upgrades, over a one-year period of performance from August 15, 2020 to August 14, 2021. The total ceiling value...
This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to Micro Photonics Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, to provide a new high resolution ex-vivo micro computed tomography (microCT) imaging system. The $368,970.00 contract replaces the current microCT scanner used by the NIH Mouse Imaging Facility, which is a shared resource that provides the NIH intramural...
This firm fixed-price purchase order for a 3D laser scanning confocal microscope was awarded to Government Scientific Source Inc. by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) for $208,579.51. The contract was not set aside and has a delivery date of November 16, 2018. The microscope is to be delivered to the USDA-ARS Canker-Greening Management and Application of Virology and Entomology (CMAVE) facility in Gainesville, Florida. This equipment award supports the...
This is a $169,889.88 Firm Fixed Price (FFP) purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to procure two microcalorimetry-based instruments to monitor real-time metabolic activity and biofilm formation of living organisms. The award resulted from a Total Small Business set-aside solicitation with North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 334416 and a size standard of 1,000 employees. The instruments will be delivered...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $124,325.40 firm fixed-price purchase order to Northeastern Mass Specs LLC, a small disadvantaged business, for the maintenance and repair of a SCIEX Q-TRAP 6500 mass spectrometer. This contract was set aside for small businesses and will run through July 31, 2027. The USDA ARS Residue Chemistry and Predictive Microbiology Research Unit in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania requires these services to support its research...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to VWR International LLC for the purchase of a laboratory microscope. The total ceiling value of the contract is $40,472.52, with a completion date of December 31, 2021. The contract was awarded through a small business set-aside solicitation with the lowest price technically acceptable as the basis for award. VWR International, a manufacturer and provider of...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Command at the Aberdeen Proving Ground to Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC for preventive maintenance and service of a Zeiss 520 micro-CT scanner and associated software. The contract has a ceiling value of $226,111.08 and covers a base year with two option years, for a total potential performance period through April 2027. The original solicitation indicates this is a sole source procurement for the incumbent...