Purchase Order AG32SBP14AA03

This is a firm fixed price contract awarded by the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service to ABT Associates Inc., a global research and consulting firm, to conduct a comprehensive study on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm to School Grant Program and the overall growth of farm to school efforts across the country. The contract, which has a potential value of $2,088,896.49, was awarded on November 24, 2017, with a completion date of March 31, 2021. The contract...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a purchase order valued at approximately $23,000 to Sutton Agricultural Enterprises, Inc. for the procurement of specialized agricultural equipment in support of ongoing crop research activities. The contract consolidates two separate requirements for a walk-behind seed spider planter and a HarvestStar™ harvester with band blade head, both of which will be utilized by the Crop Improvement and Protection...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $14,875 firm fixed-price purchase order to Centro Internacional De Mejoramiento De Maiz Y Trigo Internacional (CIMMYT), a nonprofit research and training organization, to conduct winter nursery activities for maize. The contract was awarded on April 30, 2019, with an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2019, and was performed in Ames, Iowa. This was a non-set-aside procurement that leveraged CIMMYT's expertise in agricultural research and crop...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of the Secretary awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Professor Phillip L Martin for an Agricultural Trend Study. The contract, valued at $148,950, was executed on April 1, 2014, with an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2015. The work will be performed in Davis, California. No small business set-aside was utilized for this procurement. This contract supports the Department of Labor's research and analytical capabilities in understanding...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a delivery order to Progend Inc., a minority-owned small business based in Parlier, California, for an additional 1,025 labor hours supporting the Craig Ledbetter Research Project. This contract, valued at $52,131.63, was awarded on March 4, 2019, with an ultimate completion date of March 14, 2020, and will be performed in Parlier, California. No set-aside designation was used for this award. The delivery order represents an expansion of existing...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Animal Environmental System Research in Bowling Green, KY has awarded a $24,399.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order to Kijero, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for an automatic soil sampling system known as the Wintex 2000 Soil Probe Unit. This contract is set aside for 100% Total Small Business under NAICS code 333111 (Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing). The soil probe must meet technical specifications including...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a delivery order valued at $7,180.80 to Progend Inc., a minority-owned small business based in Parlier, California, for field labor support on the Carl Hawk Research Project. The task order, issued on February 9, 2017, with an ultimate completion date of July 16, 2017, specifies 150 hours of labor at $21.12 per hour for work performed in Parlier, California. This delivery order was issued under a firm fixed-price contract...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $19,906.25 firm fixed-price delivery order to Progend Inc., a minority-owned small business based in Parlier, California, for farm labor support services related to Craig Ledbetter research projects. The work was performed in Parlier, California, with an ultimate completion date of August 16, 2019. This delivery order was issued without a set-aside designation and represents a task order against one of Progend's...

This is a firm fixed price delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Pacific West Area office to Progend Inc., a minority-owned small business. The $5,346 contract is for field research implementation and information delivery services to be performed in Parlier, California through March 15, 2024. Progend has prior experience providing agricultural labor, research support, and other services to USDA and other federal agencies as a...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to AG Metrics Group Inc. (doing business as Pacific AG Group) on January 7, 2016, with a ceiling value of $34,100. The contract supports strawberry trials in San Luis Obispo, California, involving the treatment of trial plots with methyl bromide prior to strawberry planting. The experimental design encompasses 10 treatments with 4 replicates per treatment, enabling rigorous evaluation of the pre-planting soil...