The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Costa Rica Seeds Sociedad Anonima, a for-profit organization, to provide winter nursery services including planting, harvesting, and shipping soybean germplasm seeds and other crop seeds. The contract, valued at $18,661.76, supports agricultural research projects related to plant genetic resources and crop improvement. This is the fifth prime federal contract award the company...
Green Cover Seed LLC has been awarded a purchase order contract valued at twenty-three thousand seven hundred twenty-seven dollars and sixty cents ($23,727.60) by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area. The contract calls for Brown Mid-Rib Sorghum Sudan Grass, Sweet Forever variety seed to be "safened" with Concept II (or equivalent) so that S-metolachlor can be used post emergence for...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region to Growpro Inc., a small business prime contractor, to supply an estimated 3.7 million containerized seedlings for reforestation efforts. The contract has a ceiling value of $176,763.12 and a performance period from October 2016 to October 2018. Growpro Inc., operating through its CalForest Nurseries division, will grow the seedlings to government specifications and deliver them to the J. Herbert Stone...
The Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region awarded a $278,987 definitive contract to CAL Forest Nurseries, doing business as Growpro Inc. Mountain Crest Gardens Division, to supply approximately 3.44 million containerized conifer seedlings. The solicitation was a total small business set-aside requesting quotes to grow seedlings according to a sowing and delivery schedule at the offeror's greenhouse within 200 miles of Central Point, Oregon. Approximately 800,000...
The USDA Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at $13,950 to Pine Island Nursery, Inc. for an "Avocado - Custom Grafting Project 2023." Under the contract, Pine Island Nursery will graft 300 varieties of avocado, with 3 plants of each variety, onto Waldin rootstock at its nursery located in Quail Heights, Florida. By January 2024, the contractor will deliver 900 grafted avocado plants total,...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $634,103.88 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Jack Hempicine LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for the Hop Seedling Project at the Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit in Corvallis, Oregon. This project, which has a completion date of August 31, 2024, involves planting, germinating, screening, and selecting resistant hop germplasm offspring from seed to whole plants at the contractor's facility, with...
This is a federal purchase order contract awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Midwest Area to Semillas Y Agroproductos Moreno Retis S. De P.r. De R.l., a Mexican for-profit sole proprietorship, to provide a Maize Winter Nursery in Mexico. The contract has a firm-fixed price of $40,220.00 and a performance period from September 2024 to April 2025. The contractor will be responsible for land preparation, planting, monitoring,...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $153,876.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Second Nature Research, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for a wheat nursery planting project. The work involves growing, harvesting, and delivering novel wheat germplasm seed in Yuma, Arizona. This contract is not set-aside. The original pre-solicitation notice indicated that the requirement may be set-aside for small businesses or procured through full and open...
This is a small business set-aside federal contract award to Growpro Inc., a manufacturer of containerized conifer seedlings, to provide 2.7 million seedlings in support of reforestation efforts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region. The contract has a total ceiling value of $52,806.17 and was awarded on December 31, 2013, with a final completion date of March 18, 2015. Growpro Inc. operates three divisions - CalForest Nurseries, Mountain Crest...
This is a federal purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Seed Research Equipment Solutions LLC, doing business as Seed Research Equipment Solutions, for a 4-row plot planter. The planter has features such as double disc openers, vacuum seed metering, adjustable seed spacing, and plot lengths of 15-40 feet. There is no set-aside designation for this $102,250.62 firm fixed price contract. Based on the description of the original...