The Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) awarded a $82,750 firm fixed price purchase order to Anatech USA for a low temperature ashing plasma system. The solicitation sought this specific plasma system manufactured by Anatech to prepare respirable mine dust samples for quartz analysis, indicating the equipment will support MSHA's efforts to monitor health risks to miners from dust exposure. As the prime and sole contractor, Anatech USA will deliver the system from...
This is a $19,500 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pittsburgh office to sole proprietor Clifford T. Johnston. The contract is for analytical enhancement of the rapid quartz analysis of respirable mine dust, which suggests work to support the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) research activities. The contract has no set-aside designation and was issued directly to Johnston, without any major...
This federal contract, awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pittsburgh, is for a SIZE DEPENDENT METRIC ANALYSIS OF COAL MINE DUST project. The $300,000.00 definitive, firm-fixed-price contract was awarded to Michigan Technological University, a public research university, on September 23, 2022. There is no set-aside designation for this award. The project involves two phases - a base phase to establish proof of concept for direct-on-filter characterization of...
This is a $586,503.00 definitive contract awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the Department of Health and Human Services to Thermo Environmental Instruments LLC, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The contract is for the delivery of a "MINING BAA SILICA MONITOR", which is likely an air monitoring system or equipment to support the CDC's air quality compliance, enforcement, public health tracking, emergency response, and research programs. Thermo...
The U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) awarded a $85,500.00 definitive, firm-fixed-price contract to Sunset Laboratory Incorporated, a manufacturer of organic carbon and elemental carbon (OC/EC) aerosol analysis instruments, for the requisition of a new M5L DPM instrument with a sample autoloader. This contract has no set-aside designation and has an ultimate completion date of December 1, 2019. Through prior prime federal contract awards, Sunset Laboratory...
The Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has awarded a Firm Fixed Price delivery order to Zefon International, Inc., a manufacturer of air sampling equipment, for the supply of coal and mineral dust cassettes. The award, valued at $1,149,970.62, is for Option Period 2 under an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The products provided by Zefon International will be used by MSHA for monitoring and inspection purposes at mining sites. The...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh awarded a $37,447 firm fixed price definitive contract to Strata Safety Products, LLC of Dunwoody, Georgia for a CAPLAMP particulate monitoring system. The contract has no set-aside designation and runs through March 14, 2022. As part of its disease prevention and health promotion mission, the CDC likely requires this particulate monitoring equipment to support field inspections and ensure workplace...
This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech), a public research university, for the "Temporal and Spatial Characterization of Respirable Coal Mine Dust (RCMD)". The contract has a Firm Fixed Price of $293,614.00 and a completion date of April 30, 2022. The research effort involves three major tasks: 1) Sample collection at mine sites, 2)...
The Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration (DOL MSHA) awarded a $45,750 firm fixed price purchase order to Anatech USA of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Under the contract, Anatech will modify six existing plasma chamber systems for DOL MSHA's Dust Division Labs to support the agency's mine safety research efforts. As the prime contractor, Anatech will perform the work itself without utilizing major subcontractors. The period of performance is from August 29, 2023 through...
The Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) awarded a firm fixed price contract valued at $525,246.41 to Cole-Parmer Instrument Company LLC, doing business as Zefon International, to purchase respireable dust cassettes. The place of performance is Arlington, Virginia and the completion date is March 28, 2024. This contract was issued under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) established with MSHA to provide air sampling consumables such as respireable dust cassettes,...