The Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) awarded a $38,059.60 firm fixed price delivery order contract to Biomerieux Inc. for bacterial identification cards. The prime contractor, Biomerieux Inc., will perform the work at its Eno Valley, North Carolina division. The contract runs from May 18, 2015 through June 18, 2015 to deliver the requested bacterial identification cards in support of the USDA-FSIS's food safety and inspection programs. No major...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), to Government Scientific Source Inc. (GSS) under the GSA Scientific Equipment and Services (FSS-66) schedule contract. The order is for the purchase of an Applied Biosystems Genetic Analyzer Reseq instrument (part number 4440462) for $111,790.43, with a trade-in credit of $21,190.43 for an existing 3130XL model, for a total value of $90,600.00. The instrument...
This is a firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Foss North America, Inc. for the procurement of a Milk Analyzer with associated equipment and services. The total contract value is $95,000.00. The equipment will be delivered to the USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, PA to support the agency's research on dairy food processing technologies and utilization of dairy waste materials. The...
The USDA-APHIS awarded a $83,823.35 firm fixed price delivery order to Life Technologies Corporation for the purchase of A32702 MagMax Core Nucleic Acid Purification Kits. The order was placed against the USDA-wide IDIQ vehicle to support the agency's veterinary services programs. As the parent company, Thermo Electron Corporation Financial Services Division will also support this contract. Life Technologies will perform the work in Ames, Iowa, providing the requested MagMax kits from January 9,...
This is a $86,437.92 firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) under the General Services Administration (GSA) Scientific Equipment and Services schedule (FSS-66). The order provides for an annual service contract with a base year and three option years for a USDA flow cytometer (USDA LSRFORTESSA) and associated computer workstation to support ongoing research at the USDA Agricultural Research Service's Western...
This is a delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Life Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific, under the USDA's Life Technologies Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) AG-32SDC-15-0056. The $76,228.14 firm fixed-price contract is for the purchase of an AB 3730XL Genetic Analyzer upgrade kit, SKU A42443, to support the agency's strategic sourcing requirements. This order does not have a set-aside designation. As a manufacturer of scientific...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Life Technologies Corporation, a manufacturer of scientific instruments, reagents, and consumables. The order is for a 1-year base period plus two 1-year option periods to provide maintenance and repair services for a USDA Applied Biosystems 3130-16 Genetic Analyzer located at the USDA Agricultural Research Service's National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Davis, CA. This order...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Agilent Technologies Inc. to provide an Agilent Certified Pre-Owned 6545B Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (QTOF LC/MS) system and associated components. This equipment will support ongoing research at the USDA ARS Pacific West Area Physiology & Pathology of Tree Fruit (PPTF) facility in Wenatchee, Washington. The potential value of this...
The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order to Government Scientific Source Inc., a leading distributor of laboratory products and equipment, for the delivery of a Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometer. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, has a potential value of $148,106.00 and a completion date of October 31, 2018. As a prime...
This is a $47,855.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), to L H Leathers, Inc. of Athens, GA to provide isolator modification parts. The original solicitation was a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items, with no set-aside designation. The contract will support the USDA's research activities at the Southeast Area location. The solicitation requested quotes for laboratory poultry isolators...