Purchase Order 12905B22P0290

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $18,215.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Sky Flight Robotics Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of a DJI Matrice 200 hexacopter drone with a MicaSense Altum sensor kit. This contract supports research programs at the USDA's Dairy Forage Research Center in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, which focus on assessing the economic and environmental performance of crop-dairy livestock systems. The drone and sensor package...

This is a $38,449 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) to Topcon Solutions Inc., doing business as Topcon Solutions Store, for the delivery of a real-time kinematic (RTK) fixed-wing drone, high resolution 3D camera, and thermal/RGB camera. The purpose is to support USDA-ARS research in Ohio examining how agricultural conservation practices impact nutrient losses at the edge-of-field. The drone and cameras will...

This contract award to Vision Aerial Inc., a small business manufacturer of drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), is for a high-payload capacity hexacopter seeder drone. The $32,935 firm-fixed price purchase order was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to support research and development of improved cover crop systems for dairy farms. The seeder drone is required to have a payload capacity of 11 pounds, enabling it to plant a variety of...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery awarded a $275,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Precisionhawk, Inc. of Raleigh, North Carolina. Under this total small business set-aside contract, Precisionhawk will provide a hyperspectral sensor and drone package integrated on an Alta X unmanned aerial vehicle to the USDA Agricultural Research Service Southeast Watershed Research Unit in Tifton, Georgia. The solicitation...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $29,145.70 firm fixed price purchase order to Vision Aerial Inc. to provide a tricopter drone with multispectral and visual sensors. Per the original solicitation, the contractor will supply and deliver the drone to Sidney, Montana, equipped as specified. The solicitation sought quotes for a tricopter drone to support USDA ARS research programs in the Plains...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order for $34,241.00 awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Sky Flight Robotics Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for a drone with multispectral imager and camera to be used by ARS researchers to monitor barley crops and evaluate traits related to abiotic stress tolerance and malt quality. The original solicitation was a sources sought notice to determine availability of small...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services awarded a $25,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Drone Amplified Inc., doing business as Drone Amplified, to deliver a NEXT VISION NIGHTHAWK2-UZ high resolution thermal camera for use on an ASTRO unmanned aerial system drone. Performance will take place in Lincoln, Nebraska over a four month period concluding on November 30, 2023. No set aside designation or...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $80,650 firm fixed price purchase order to Aero Systems West, Inc. for an unmanned aerial vehicle and hyperspectral imaging camera with airborne, benchtop, and outdoor systems. This contract was set aside for total small businesses and will provide the requested products and services to support agricultural research activities at the agency location in San Martin, California by December 31, 2023. Aero Systems West will deliver...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Pacific West Area awarded a $14,362 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Save Again.com Itkickstart Division for the purchase of a multispectral camera for use on a drone. The camera will be capable of measuring nitrogen and thermal stresses to complement ongoing research at the Pullman, Washington location on nitrogen fluxes and nitrogen/carbon work at the long-term research...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service's Water Quality and Ecology Research Unit awarded a $50,349.00 firm fixed price Purchase Order to Earl Dudley, LLC, a small business, for the procurement of a blue-list approved hexacopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The UAV must have a 19 lb maximum payload capacity, 43 minute maximum flight time, 51 mph top speed, and be capable of integrating the Unit's current UAV camera system for use in studying experimental systems over...