Meso Scale Diagnostics LLC was awarded a $49.5K firm fixed-price purchase order by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Western Human Nutrition Research Center in Davis, California on August 16, 2017. The contract provides for replacement and trade-in of a discontinued MSD Section Imager 2400 model with an upgraded MESO QuickPlex SQ120 instrument to support ongoing research analytes at the facility. The vendor offered USDA a 57 percent discount on the new equipment in exchange for the trade-in of the legacy instrument, which was scheduled to reach end-of-service on December 31, 2017. The contract included no small business set-aside and was completed by August 30, 2017.
Meso Scale Diagnostics LLC, a Native American-owned small business based in Rockville, Maryland, specializes in electrochemiluminescence-based detection platforms and advanced biomedical research technologies. The company has established itself as a primary supplier of immunoassay equipment and reagents to federal research agencies across the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other civilian agencies. Beyond this purchase order, Meso Scale Diagnostics maintains significant indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Medical Supply Chain, Defense Health Agency, and Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense, supporting broader biomedical research, diagnostic, and chemical-biological defense missions across the federal government.