The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $13,440 purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation for targeted genotyping by sequencing of 1,344 wheat samples with the AgriSeq wheat genotyping panel. Per the original solicitation, the contractor will perform DNA library preparation on the wheat samples, sequencing of the prepared libraries, and delivery of variant calls in genotype and VCF formats. The work will be carried out in Carlsbad, California and delivered...
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...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service awarded a $24,960.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific, for targeted genotyping-by-sequencing of 2,496 wheat DNA samples. This purchase order was issued under a full and open solicitation with no set-aside. The work will be performed at the USDA facility in Manhattan, Kansas and is required to be completed within 8 weeks of the contractor receiving the...
This is a $24,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service to Life Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. The contract is for targeted genotyping by sequencing (GBS) of 2,400 wheat DNA samples using the AgriSeq wheat genotyping panel. The work must be completed by September 5, 2025. This contract was awarded as a result of a sources sought notification issued by the USDA,...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery awarded a $87,125.64 firm fixed price delivery order to Pacific Biosciences Of California, Inc. for COMP. SEQUEL II SRV CONTRACT, W/INSIGHT. The contract has a completion date of February 23, 2023 and was awarded on February 24, 2022. To be performed in Stoneville, Mississippi, the delivery order is associated with the larger USDA ARS research programs and will provide Sequel II...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Pacific West Area awarded a $104,632.46 firm fixed price delivery order to Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. for SEQUEL II sequencing kits, SMRT cell 8M trays, and associated services. As part of its efforts to advance genomic research supporting agricultural innovation, the agency is utilizing Pacific Biosciences' single molecule real-time sequencing technology to generate...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $15,185 firm fixed price purchase order to Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. for DNA sequencing reagents. The contract has no set-aside designation and requires delivery of the reagents by July 17, 2015 to support the agency's research activities in West Menlo Park, California. As the prime contractor, Pacific Biosciences will provide sequencing...
This federal contract award was issued by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), to Illumina, Inc., a leading manufacturer of genetic sequencing and genomic analysis technologies. The $21,857 firm fixed-price delivery order is intended to cover the diagnosis and repair of a malfunctioning Illumina NextSeq500 sequencing instrument used by ARS's Western Regional Small Grain Genotyping Labs. This contract is not associated with a...
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's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $59,728 delivery order contract to Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. for PACBIO sequence supplies. The prime contractor will provide the requested sequencing products and services to support research being conducted by USDA-ARS at its Stoneville, Mississippi field location. The firm fixed price contract runs from August 15, 2023 through November 14, 2023. No subcontractors or set aside designations were identified....