The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $85,955 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned biotechnology company, for the delivery of a long-read real-time genome sequencer. This requirement was set aside for total small business participation. The sequencer, equivalent or near-equivalent to the Oxford Nanopore GridION MK1 instrument, will be used by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Soil Dynamics Research Unit in Auburn,...
This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service to Government Scientific Source Inc., a small business, for $108,705. The contract involves supplying parts for Oxford Nanopore next-generation sequencing systems, including flow cells, kits, cartridges and auxiliary items, to support existing MinION and GridION platforms owned by the USDA. Performance will take place in Herndon, Virginia by April 19, 2024. The award is...
This $12,500 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit biotechnology company, for a software license and device warranty for a GridION x5 DNA sequencing instrument. The award supports ongoing genomic research initiatives at the USDA-ARS Cell Wall Biology and Utilization Research Unit in Madison, Wisconsin, which uses the GridION platform to generate...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $262,250 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit organization, to provide a single-molecule long read sequencer. This contract is a total small business set-aside with a NAICS code of 334516 and 1,000-employee size standard. The sequencer must be capable of generating long and ultra-long DNA sequence reads, with a potential output of over 100 gigabases per flowcell and...
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc. has been awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at twelve thousand eight hundred forty dollars by the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services. The award is for reagents to support the agency's genomic sequencing initiatives. As a foreign owned for-profit organization, Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc. develops nanopore sequencing technologies and provides devices, consumables, and...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned biotechnology company, for $86,826. The contract is for the supply of consumables, including flow cells and sequencing kits, for the Oxford Nanopore GridION DNA sequencing instrument. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The original solicitation was a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial...
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc. was awarded a $30,905 firm fixed price purchase order by the USDA Agricultural Research Service for genome sequencing equipment. This purchase order was issued against a pre-solicitation notice seeking proposals for next-generation sequencing devices totaling five to six lanes capable of long read DNA and RNA sequencing to support genome assembly, population genetics analysis, RNAseq analysis, and chromatin confirmation for the USDA-ARS PA ARTHROPOD-BORNE ANIMAL...
This federal contract award to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit company, is a $95,505 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for a GridION Mk1 sequencing device, flow cells, and associated consumables. The equipment will be utilized at the USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Orient, New York. This award was made under a sole-source exception to standard...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $129,639 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc., a division of the foreign-owned, for-profit Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC. The contract is for the provision of a GridION Mk1 nanopore sequencing system, accessories, and related services, with a completion date of January 31, 2022. This award has a total small business set-aside designation. Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc. has previously...
This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine division to Oxford Nanopore Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit biotechnology company. The $20,470.00 order is for Oxford Nanopore's DNA/RNA sequencing reagents to support the USDA's Rinderpest project, a disease eradication initiative. The contract has no set-aside designation. Oxford Nanopore has a history of...