The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $17,956.63 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to the University of Wisconsin System to generate malting barley lines. The project involves transforming barley lines to either strongly express an Arabidopsis transcription factor (AtEIL3) or to knockdown expression of a barley kinase (HvMKK3). This contract has a performance period ending on July 11, 2025 and was not set aside for any socioeconomic...
On September 20, 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order valued at $8,041.50 to Millennium Enterprise Corp. (MEC), a minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Oakton, Virginia. The contract, which references Quote No. 614160949 dated September 19, 2016, was awarded without a set-aside designation. MEC will deliver VMware Horizon 7 View Standard software (10-pack) customized to integrate with USDA...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Almaco (Gary W Clem Inc.) for $4,418.80 on September 29, 2015, with completion targeted for October 13, 2015. The contract covers the delivery of Vantage HD Harvest Data Collection Software and associated computer equipment as specified in Almaco Quote Reference No. 17955-00. The equipment will be delivered to the USDA ARS Research Support Services facility at Beltsville,...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $13,568.17 firm fixed price purchase order to Technostore LLC for an AI computer to support deep learning activities. The computer will include a 16-core 4-4.5GHz processor with 64MB cache, 256GB of system memory, a 3.84TB M.2 NVMe drive for the operating system, and two NVIDIA RTX A6000 graphics processing units with 48GB of VRAM each. The computer will be equipped with Windows 10 Pro and popular deep learning frameworks to...
On September 8, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a purchase order to Cyberpower Inc. (doing business as Cyberpowerpc) for $10,042 to procure two custom-built Mega Pro 4000 high-power data processing computers. The contract is firm fixed-price with no set-aside designation and was funded through the Northeast Area. The equipment was to be shipped to the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center at the USDA's Beltsville Agricultural...
This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to RCI Engineering LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of a forage plot harvester. The $98,766.00 contract award was set aside for total small businesses. The harvester will be used to support forage research by the USDA-ARS Midwest Area office and the University of Wisconsin Marshfield Agricultural Research Station. The harvester...
Wintersteiger Inc., a small business agricultural machinery manufacturer headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, was awarded a $20,637 firm fixed-price purchase order by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service on March 14, 2023. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside, calls for the delivery of a stationary thresher specifically designed for precision threshing of small cereal grains, including intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium) and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $309,547.66 firm fixed-price purchase order to Wintersteiger Inc. on July 8, 2022, for the procurement of one Quantum Plus small grain research combine. The equipment will be delivered to the USDA ARS Plant Science Research facility in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a completion deadline of December 31, 2022. The combine is designed to harvest wheat, barley, and oats research plots and includes specialized components...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Wintersteiger Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit organization, to design and build a custom plot drill for experimental plot work. The contract has a ceiling value of $99,500.00 and the ultimate completion date is August 28, 2020. The solicitation was a total small business set-aside with a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code of 333111 - Farm...
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...
This $19,359.66 fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to RMR Engineering LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to migrate two Joe White Micro-Malting Machines from the Windows XP operating system to Windows 10. The work involves replacing Opto22 hardware and software components to ensure the automated malting process control functions properly on the new Windows 10 platform. This effort stems from a sources sought notice posted in May 2020 to gauge interest from small businesses for this project, which does not have a set-aside designation. The ARS is responsible for conducting agricultural research, including barley malting processes, at its facilities in Madison, Wisconsin.