Purchase Order 140G0125P0203
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- <p>The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to Stauver Scientific, LLC (doing business as KS Analytical Systems) for $13,217.00 to provide XRD repair services. The contract was awarded on August 6, 2015 and has a completion date of September 5, 2015. The place of performance is Lakewood, Colorado. This contract did not have a set-aside designation.</p>
- This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian federal agency. The contract, valued at $10,000.00, was set aside for small businesses and awarded to Geosep Services, LLC, a specialized geological and geospatial laboratory services provider based in Moscow, Idaho. The contract requires Geosep Services to perform uranium-lead geochronologic analyses of mineral separates, which involves dating...
- This is a $24,500.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for the analysis of apatite and zircon grains from 35 rock samples each. The contract supports the USGS Alaska Science Center's research to determine rock exhumation histories and understand the geologic context of Alaska's mineral resources. UT Austin was selected as the sole source provider, as they have the capability to continue previous...
- This is a $40,250.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency, to Spectrum Petrographics Inc., a small business contractor located in Vancouver, WA. The contract is for the delivery of standard and microprobe polished thin sections to support the USGS minerals program research in Alaska's Yukon-Tanana upland region. The contractor will be responsible for processing approximately 350 rock samples...
- This federal contract award is a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call order issued by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency. The contract has been awarded to Activation Laboratories LTD (Actlabs), a woman-owned limited liability company based in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. The contract is for $30,000.00 and is a firm fixed-price arrangement to provide advanced analytical testing and geochemical sample analysis services to support...
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants, a civilian agency, to Geosep Services, LLC, a small business, for $9,800.00. The contract is for geospatial and laboratory services, including mineral separations, apatite fission track analysis, detrital zircon uranium-lead dating, sample processing, and geoscience analysis to support the United States Geological Survey (USGS) initiatives such as the Alaska Basins Petroleum System project, Gulf of Mexico...
- This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Interior's United States Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Geomark Research LTD, a for-profit small business partnership, for $15,903.00. The contract is for core sample analysis services to support the USGS's domestic energy resource assessment activities. Geomark Research, which has provided similar petroleum sample database and digitized data services to USGS in the past, will deliver the...
- This firm fixed-price purchase order contract, awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency, to Activation Laboratories LTD (operating as Actlabs), a woman-owned limited liability company in Canada, is for $86,855.00 to provide x-ray diffraction sample analysis services. The contract has an ultimate completion date of January 15, 2021 and was awarded on August 1, 2020. Actlabs, the prime contractor, will perform the...
- This contract was awarded by the Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants to a small business for chemical and mineralogical analysis services of 23 tailings samples from placer mines in Alaska. The contract has a firm fixed price of $76,774.00 and a period of performance from February 16, 2024 to April 16, 2024. The purpose of the analysis is to assess the samples for potential critical minerals. The original solicitation was a combined...
- This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Geosep Services, LLC, a small business, to provide mineral separation and analysis services in support of the agency's geological assessments, petroleum system evaluations, sedimentary rock analysis, and related research objectives. The order has a potential value of $12,750.00 and a period of performance through September 30, 2022. Geosep Services,...
K/T Geoservices, Inc., a small business contractor, was awarded a $27,216 firm fixed-price purchase order by the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Acquisitions and Grants on September 16, 2025, to provide X-ray diffraction mineralogical analysis services. Under this total small business set-aside contract, K/T Geoservices will conduct whole rock X-ray diffraction (XRD) mineralogical analysis and detailed clay speciation on 84 shale samples to support the Alaska Basins and Petroleum Systems Project. The work will be performed in Herndon, Virginia, with a completion date of September 17, 2026, utilizing a Panalytical X'pert Pro diffractometer with copper radiation source and Rietveld or whole pattern fitting techniques. The contractor must deliver results in Excel spreadsheet format with unique sample identifiers, raw data files, and technical analysis subject to USGS expert review, with a maximum turnaround time of six weeks per sample batch. The solicitation, issued on August 26, 2025, as Request for Quote 140G0125Q0196, evaluated proposals based on past performance (requiring at least three references for similar XRD work within three years) and technical capability demonstrated through detailed narratives describing analytical approach and capabilities. This contract supports critical geological and petroleum systems research for Alaska's sedimentary basins under the USGS's science and research mission.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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X-RAY DIFFRACTION MINERALOGY OF CLAY | 140G0125Q0196 | Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants | Solicitation 1/1 | 8/26/25, 10:24 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $27.2k | 9/16/25 |