Life Technologies Corporation, doing business as Thermo Fisher Scientific, received a firm fixed-price purchase order contract valued at $7,278.12 from a civilian federal agency's Southeast Area division on January 13, 2015, for real-time PCR machine service support through December 31, 2015. The contract includes two preventative maintenance services annually, with quarterly payments of $1,819.53, and will be performed at the agency's facility in Fort Pierce, Florida. This award was made without a set-aside designation, reflecting the contractor's competitive positioning in federal scientific equipment procurement.
Life Technologies Corporation is a prominent manufacturer of scientific instruments and laboratory equipment, including real-time PCR systems, genetic analyzers, and sequencing platforms, and maintains significant federal contract relationships with agencies including the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, and Department of Agriculture. The company is a subsidiary of Thermo Electron Corporation, which holds multiple indefinite delivery vehicles with federal agencies, including a $9.5 million blanket purchase agreement with the Food and Drug Administration and a $3.5 million multi-award agreement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for laboratory maintenance services, demonstrating the broader corporate family's extensive involvement in supplying and maintaining specialized scientific equipment for federal research and operational missions.
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