Purchase Order 140R8118P0007

The Bureau of Reclamation, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, has awarded a $111,481.44 firm fixed price purchase order to Global Digital Systems LIMITED, doing business as GDS Instruments, for a constant volume testing device. The award is not associated with a set-aside program. GDS Instruments is a foreign-owned, for-profit organization that designs, develops, and manufactures materials testing machines and software for geotechnical and earthquake engineering. The...

This is a $97,321.50 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to Global Digital Systems LIMITED, a foreign-owned, for-profit company doing business as GDS Instruments. The contract is for the delivery of a resonant column apparatus (RCA), which is a specialized materials testing machine used to support the ERDC's geotechnical engineering and geosciences research. This includes work in areas such as...

The Bureau of Reclamation, a civilian agency, awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Global Digital Systems LIMITED, a foreign-owned for-profit organization based in the United Kingdom, for the procurement of an Unsaturated Triaxial Automated Shear System (Qty 1) and a Stress-Dependent Soil-Water Characteristic Curve Measurement System (Qty 1). The total ceiling value of the contract is $182,119.96, and the ultimate completion date is November 4, 2025. This contract award was...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory awarded a $176,057 firm fixed price purchase order to Global Digital Systems Limited of Great Britain, United Kingdom to deliver a dynamic triaxial testing system. The award originated from a June 2022 special notice seeking information on dynamic triaxial devices to support ongoing research at the Engineer Research and Development Center, including into biocementation of soils, chemically stabilized roads, and levee...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC) to Geotechnical Consulting & Testing Systems, L.L.C. (GCTS), a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small business, for $92,918.00 to upgrade existing Fredlund Devices used for soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) testing. The upgrades will automate the SWCC testing process to enhance research capabilities in soil/water/biopolymer behavior, transient flow...

The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Geophysical Survey Systems Inc. (GSSI), a small business manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, for a GPR system valued at $52,127.61. The award supports future field programs in coastal environments and is based on a sources sought announcement that outlined technical specifications for a GPR system with a 200 MHz center frequency antenna and...

This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Guideline GEO Americas Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit company, to provide a 160-MHz ground penetrating radar (GPR) antenna. The award has a potential value of $11,885.00 and a completion date of May 5, 2017. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Guideline GEO Americas Inc. has previously provided various geophysical equipment and...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Quanterra, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer, for an HR 6 CHANNEL DAS 12-GGCMRN0000-6554 system. The contract was awarded on September 20, 2012 with a completion date of October 5, 2012 and a potential value of $40,140.00. No set-aside designation was used. The contract does not appear to be associated with a larger vehicle. Quanterra, Inc. is...

This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey (USGS) to Sonardyne, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer, for a Global Positioning System - Acoustic Method system. The system includes an autonomous ocean-surface vessel with GPS-A (Global Positioning System - Acoustic) capabilities to make centimeter- to sub-centimeter-resolution measurements of seafloor benchmarks, supporting the USGS's mission of assessing...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey, a civilian agency within the Department of the Interior, to Geotek LIMITED, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer of geological analysis equipment based in the United Kingdom. The contract is for the delivery of a Sediment Core Imaging System, a specialized laboratory instrument used for the non-destructive analysis of geological core samples. The contract has a ceiling value of $516,532.60 and a period...