The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract to Roche Diagnostics Corporation to provide maintenance and repair services for two Ventana Discovery Ultra laboratory instruments located in Ames, Iowa. The contract, valued at $173,530.44, includes unlimited service visits, preventative maintenance, and software updates by certified original equipment manufacturer (OEM) personnel. Roche Diagnostics, a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturing company, has received numerous federal contract awards to supply medical equipment, reagents, and laboratory services to agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and Department of Health and Human Services. This contract was awarded without a small business set-aside.