Purchase Order 140F1G24P0030

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract valued at sixty-one thousand two hundred seventy-three dollars and forty-nine cents ($61,273.49) to Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. for the purchase of CFX 384 and CFX 96 Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction platforms. The equipment will support the agency's Quality Assurance Project Plan for monitoring invasive carp species through environmental DNA testing conducted at its Whitney Genetics Laboratory. No set aside designation was used for this sole source award, which was issued under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation provisions allowing sole source awards for purchases under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold when only one source is reasonably available to meet requirements. Bio-Rad Laboratories is the original equipment manufacturer able to provide the PCR platforms with the necessary warranty and pricing. The award is associated with a five-year, one billion dollar blanket purchase agreement Bio-Rad holds with the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health to provide biological materials, chemicals, and laboratory supplies in support of medical research programs.