Purchase Order 12805B20P0178

The Department of Agriculture awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at $68,511.99 to Novogene Corp Inc., a minority-owned small business, to sequence and assemble the genomes of three cultivated and wild barley species. This contract is associated with the originating solicitation requesting offers for plant and animal genome survey and de novo sequencing services for the three barley samples, including quality control, library preparation, whole genome sequencing using NovaSeq...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $38,350 firm fixed price purchase order to Seqmatic, LLC for ALFALFA RNA SEQUENCING FROM NINE GENOTYPES. The solicitation requested Illumina RNA sequencing of alfalfa samples to support the agency's agricultural research efforts. As a total small business set-aside awarded under the LPTA process, the contract calls for Seqmatic to provide library sequencing services at its St. Paul, Minnesota location within 90 days of the...

This firm fixed price contract for $24,500 was awarded by the USDA Agricultural Research Service to Diversity Arrays Technology PTY LIMITED of Lincoln, Nebraska. The contract calls for the genotyping of switchgrass plant DNA samples provided in seven plates for the purpose of extracting and calling single nucleotide polymorphism markers for potential use in genomic selection. Specifically, the contractor will receive the plant DNA from the USDA-ARS and perform genotyping services at its...

This firm fixed price purchase order for $9,408 was awarded by the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service to Covariance Biosciences, LLC DBA Agriplex Genomics to provide genotyping services. The original solicitation requested genotyping of plant samples in support of USDA agricultural research programs, to be performed at the specified location. As the prime contractor, Covariance Biosciences will perform DNA isolation, assay design, and single nucleotide polymorphism...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Southeast Area office to Rapid Genomics LLC, a small business, for $31,450.00. The contract is for genotyping 190 sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) individuals using a capture sequencing technique. This work supports USDA-ARS's agricultural genomics research initiatives. The contract was competitively awarded under a total small business set-aside, with award factors...

Genohub, Inc. was awarded a $23,807 firm fixed price purchase order by the Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area within the Department of Agriculture. The contract calls for Genohub to use 50 nanograms of genomic DNA from 133 specimens to make Illumina NovaSeq-S4 paired-end libraries. The work is to be completed by September 30, 2022. As a total small business set-aside, this award supports the Agricultural Research Service's...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $120,758.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Rapid Genomics LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to provide FLEX-SEQ EX-L SERVICE TO CHARACTERIZE 20,000 MARKERS AND ADMIN FEES. This contract was set aside for small businesses. Rapid Genomics has previously provided DNA sequencing, sample preparation, genotyping, and related agricultural genomics services to federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $21,760.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Seqmatic, LLC, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small business, to perform Omni-C analysis of eight alfalfa genomes for long-range mapping. The contract, which has a completion date of September 30, 2024, requires Seqmatic to construct Omni-C libraries, sequence each library to a target depth of 15X per haplotype, and deliver the results files electronically. This contract...

This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Southeast Area division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Intertek USA Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit organization, to provide validation of 30 SNPs using KASP marker development and further genotyping of 3,456 sorghum samples using 1-10 SNPs KASP markers. The contract has a ceiling value of $16,896.00 and an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2023. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Intertek USA Inc. has...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at nineteen thousand five hundred seventy five dollars ($19,575) to Psomagen Inc. of Potomac, Maryland. This contract is to provide wheat sequencing services in support of the agency's research and development efforts. Specifically, the contractor will generate approximately two hundred seventy gigabytes of Hi-Fi sequencing data from three wheat cultivars using PacBio long-read sequencing...