The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $110,000 firm fixed price contract to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York for genomic services supporting lake trout restoration efforts in Lake Ontario. Per the solicitation, the contractor will compile genomic diversity data related to thiamine metabolism from multiple lake trout populations using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing and established analytical pipelines. The sequencing and computational...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $13,685.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct research and analysis related to lake trout genetics in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area. The work will be completed by March 1, 2024. The University of Wisconsin System is a state government educational institution that frequently partners with federal agencies like the U.S. Geological Survey on environmental monitoring and natural...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Northeast Area, a civilian agency within the federal government, to CD Biosciences Inc., a small business research product supplier and contract research organization. The $44,260 contract is for PacBio sequencing services, including HiFi sequencing of one cutthroat trout sample in CCS mode and sequencing of three rainbow trout samples in CLR mode. The contract has an ultimate completion date of November 30, 2021. CD Biosciences operates...
This is a $43,940.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northeast Area to Seqcenter LLC for whole genome sequencing services using Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) DNA sequencing systems. The contract covers sequencing of 48 rainbow trout DNA samples to provide at least 10x genome coverage per sample. This requirement was set aside for small businesses under NAICS code 541380 - Testing Laboratories and Services,...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $111,730.43 firm-fixed-price purchase order to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) at Brockport for the "Monitoring Sturgeon Movement/Genesee River" project. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, runs through August 15, 2023. RF SUNY, a non-profit organization that administers research and technical services contracts for the SUNY system, has a history of...
This is a $96,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, to Long Live The Kings (LLTK), a non-profit organization. The contract is for steelhead trout research services, including providing research, monitoring, coordination, planning, and communication support for NOAA's efforts in salmonid recovery in the Pacific Northwest. The contract has no set-aside designation...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order for $187,478.00 awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Center for Aquaculture Technologies, Inc. (CAT), a small business, for whole genome sequencing and genotype imputation of rainbow trout samples. The contract has a completion date of December 30, 2022. The contract was issued under a total small business set-aside, as part of the USDA ARS Field Research Implementation and Information...
This is a fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Seqmatic, LLC, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small business, for whole-genome sequencing of 96 rainbow trout samples at 30X coverage. The contract has a total ceiling value of $32,656.00 and a completion date of December 5, 2024. The original solicitation was a sources sought notice for market research, seeking providers of genomic sequencing...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to Illumina, Inc., a leading manufacturer of genetic sequencing technologies. The $28,709.95 contract is for the annual service and maintenance of a NextSeq 1000 DNA Sequencer, which is critical for the agency's environmental DNA testing, population status monitoring, and genetic research capabilities. The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis under the simplified acquisition threshold of...
This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to Illumina, Inc., a manufacturer of sequencing and genomic analysis solutions, for a service agreement to support the agency's Conservation Genetics Laboratory in Anchorage, Alaska from March 2023 through March 2025. The $14,422.00 contract provides maintenance and support services for Illumina's MiSeq sequencing equipment used in the laboratory's genomic research and analysis work. The original...