This is a $55,500 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Applied Machine Vision Technologies, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of an Optical Seed Sorter. The contract has an ultimate completion date of October 11, 2024. This award is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and does not have a set-aside designation. The Optical Seed Sorter is being procured by the USDA Agricultural Research Service...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Plains Area awarded a $37,400 firm fixed-price purchase order to Applied Machine Vision Technologies, LLC, a small disadvantaged business based in Katy, Texas, for the procurement of a 32-channel optical seed sorter. The equipment, designated for delivery to the Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center in Fargo, North Dakota, will support the agency's seed research and quality control operations. The optical seed sorter...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Gary W Clem Inc., doing business as Almaco, a small business manufacturer of specialized agricultural equipment. The contract is for the procurement of a Color Sorter System, with a ceiling value of $84,766.17 and a completion date of November 20, 2022. The contract was awarded under a solicitation that did not use a small business set-aside. Almaco is...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $306,127.73 firm fixed-price purchase order to Government Scientific Source Inc., a small business based in Reston, Virginia, for the procurement and delivery of a full-spectrum cell sorter. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside and awarded on August 25, 2025, will support the Dairy Forage Research Center's research on dairy cattle nutrition and related studies. Government Scientific...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $97,504 firm fixed-price purchase order to Phenospex B.V., a Netherlands-based biotechnology company specializing in high-throughput plant phenotyping equipment. The contract, awarded on August 20, 2024, calls for delivery of a MicroScan F600 imaging system with accessories to support agricultural research operations. The procurement was conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 12 for commercial goods and...
On September 20, 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order valued at $8,041.50 to Millennium Enterprise Corp. (MEC), a minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Oakton, Virginia. The contract, which references Quote No. 614160949 dated September 19, 2016, was awarded without a set-aside designation. MEC will deliver VMware Horizon 7 View Standard software (10-pack) customized to integrate with USDA...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $44,260 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Kemeny Associates LLC, a small business doing business as Middleton Research, for a Visible Near-Infrared (VNIR) Pushbroom Hyperspectral Camera System. This contract was awarded on August 1, 2024 with a completion date of December 31, 2024. The camera system will be used to image poultry, eggs, grains, microorganisms, and other post-harvest food items for...
This federal contract award, valued at $191,213.00, was issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Vision Systems Technology, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the purchase of 288 megapixel resolution mono and color cameras to support the ARS Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. The cameras will be used to develop imaging inspection systems for detecting small...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $40,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Seedburo Equipment Company, LLC, a small business manufacturer of agricultural and laboratory equipment. The contract is for the delivery of a WESTRUP LA-K Gravity Separator, a piece of specialized laboratory equipment used for separating grains, cereals, oil seeds, and other granular agricultural products. This purchase order was awarded under a small business...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $275,164.79 to Miltenyi Biotec, Inc. for a MACSQuant Tyto Cell Sorter. The award, issued on September 18, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of May 2, 2026, responds to a solicitation posted by the USDA-ARS Athens, Georgia facility for a benchtop flow cell sorter to support research operations at the U.S. National Poultry Research Center. The solicitation required a...
On March 18, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $68,213.45 firm fixed price purchase order to Vmek Group LLC, doing business as Vmek Sorting Technology, for the supply of a Vmek Sorting Technology Metrix V3 color sorter with accompanying software, accessories, training, and freight. The contract was set aside for Total Small Business concerns and originated from a solicitation posted on March 9, 2021, with award occurring the next business day following the March 17, 2021 deadline. The equipment is scheduled for delivery to Midlothian, Virginia, with a completion date of June 30, 2021.
Vmek Group LLC specializes in advanced optical color sorting equipment utilized for agricultural research applications, particularly in seed analysis and separation. The company has an established history of supplying similar high-technology vision-based sorting systems to USDA Agricultural Research Service laboratories across multiple locations. This purchase order aligns with the agency's research mission to support seed analysis and agricultural biotechnology initiatives through the provision of specialized analytical equipment.