Purchase Order 140G0325P0061

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 annually, which includes sample preparation activities such as slabbing, cutting billets, and producing 30um thick rock slices adhered to glass slides. This contract was set aside for small businesses and has a base period from February 2025 to February 2026, with four potential one-year option periods. Spectrum Petrographics Inc. has received multiple previous contract awards from the USGS for similar petrographic thin section services.