The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $152,500 firm fixed price purchase order to Nanoimages of Lafayette, California. The contract is for the delivery of a benchtop/tabletop scanning electron microscope to support the agency's research efforts. The award resulted from a competitive solicitation seeking quotes for the microscope to fulfill requirements detailed in the request for quotation and...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $64,090.81 firm fixed price delivery order against the Multiple Award Schedule contract vehicle. The order is for a Thermo Electron Corporation Financial Services Division subsidiary, Fisher Scientific Company L.L.C., to provide a MODE microplate reader. The reader includes a sensitive filter-based fluorescence detection system and a flexible...
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...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $16,797 firm fixed price purchase order to Loligo Systems APS of Denmark. The contract calls for Loligo Systems to provide a 24-channel, 80-microliter respirometry system and deliver it to the USDA-ARS-NEA PA Plant & Animal Genetic Resource Center in Fort Collins, Colorado by November 17, 2023. The original solicitation sought a respirometry system and...
The US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $67,756.91 firm fixed price delivery order against Technical Communities Inc.'s Multiple Award Schedule contract. The delivery order is for an 1260 Infinity II Quaternary Pump HPLC system and complementary supplies to support USDA-ARS-FRIID research programs. Technical Communities Inc. Testmart Division will serve as the prime contractor, delivering the...
The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $110,742 firm fixed price purchase order to Headwall Photonics Inc. of College Station, Texas. The contract is for delivery of a hyperspectral imaging system in support of the agency's research efforts. Per the original solicitation, the prime contractor will provide the specified hyperspectral equipment along with delivery, compliance with federal...
The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract valued at seventy-nine thousand six hundred fifty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents ($79,651.28) to Malvern Panalytical Inc. to deliver one field spectroradiometer for whole seed and seed meal sampling. The spectroradiometer will provide spectral reflectance and irradiance measurements in the visible and near infrared range of whole seed and seed meal samples in field settings, as...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $386,030 firm fixed price purchase order to Phoenix Lidar Systems, LLC to deliver two Phoenix LiDAR Systems. The solicitation requested quotes for the delivery of the systems to locations in Lincoln, Nebraska and Stillwater, Oklahoma to support the USDA ARS FRIID's research efforts. The award is set aside entirely for small businesses and was solicited under...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $219,123.10 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Printersys LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to deliver various equipment and supplies for the Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area. The contract includes items such as a camera body, lens adapter, computer, and specialized trays and related components for an automated sample loading and unloading system prototype. The...
This $34,835 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Midwest Area to Boreal Laser (USA) Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit company doing business as Southern Analitical. The contract is for the delivery of a tilt pan scanner with mirrors system that can be used with a GasFinder3-OP NH3 laser, as described in the agency's prior sources sought notice. The requirement is in support of the USDA-ARS's National...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract valued at seventy-one thousand six hundred eighty-five dollars to Phenospex B.V., a Netherlands-based company, to deliver a MicroScan F600 imaging system, barcode reader, one-year HortControl MicroScan license, packing and transport, on-site training, remote support, and preventive maintenance. The products and services will support research activities at the agency's facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. Evaluation was conducted using the lowest price technically acceptable source selection process. The work is to be performed in the Netherlands from September 2023 through March 2024.