The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) Pacific West Area awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Giddings Machine Company for approximately $31.6K to procure a Giddings #35-TS 3-point mount tractor coring machine. This specialized soil sampling and coring equipment will support ongoing research activities at the USDA ARS Water Management & Conservation facility in Maricopa, Arizona. The contract was awarded without a set-aside designation through a pre-solicitation process, with the award issued on September 4, 2019, and an ultimate completion date of January 10, 2020. The place of performance is Windsor, Colorado, where the vendor manufactures the equipment.
Giddings Machine Company, a small business manufacturer based in Windsor, Colorado, and registered in the System for Award Management since 1998, specializes in hydraulic soil sampling, coring, and drilling equipment for agricultural research and natural resource management applications. The company has an established track record of supplying the USDA with various soil sampling machines, and this procurement aligns with the agency's soil conservation and research initiatives. The Giddings #35-TS coring machine represents the type of sophisticated agricultural research equipment the vendor consistently delivers to support federal conservation and environmental investigation programs across multiple USDA regional offices.