Purchase Order AG6542P150016

This federal contract award is for the provision of Wheat Doubled Haploids (DH) Lines. The contract was awarded to Heartland Plant Innovations Inc., a for-profit organization located in Manhattan, Kansas, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pacific West Area. The contract has a firm fixed price of $1,790.00 and a completion date of June 30, 2015. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Heartland Plant Innovations Inc. is the prime contractor, and there is no information...

Heartland Plant Innovations Inc. was awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $24,500 by the Plains Area, a civilian entity within the U.S. government, for the production of doubled haploid lines from winter wheat breeding populations. The contract was awarded on March 6, 2015, with an ultimate completion date of June 6, 2015. The work is to be performed in Manhattan, Kansas, a location known for significant agricultural research activities. No set-aside provisions were applied to...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $13,440 purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation for targeted genotyping by sequencing of 1,344 wheat samples with the AgriSeq wheat genotyping panel. Per the original solicitation, the contractor will perform DNA library preparation on the wheat samples, sequencing of the prepared libraries, and delivery of variant calls in genotype and VCF formats. The work will be carried out in Carlsbad, California and delivered...

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., a division of DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition, was awarded a $18,000 firm fixed-price purchase order by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Northeast Area for sorghum reference genome sequencing services. The contract, awarded on September 20, 2018, with an ultimate completion date of September 27, 2019, involves work to be performed at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. This administrative modification changed the contracting officer from Lynn Hults to John...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Pacific West Area awarded a $37,000 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Corteva Inc. to sequence two tetraploid wheat genotypes using Pacific Biosciences' Sequencing technology. Per the original solicitation, Corteva will provide de novo sequencing of the genomes, assembly services, and scaffolding services. The place of performance is Indianapolis, Indiana and the period of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Pacific West Area awarded a definitive contract to Jack Hempicine LLC on May 1, 2023, for hop seedling evaluation services at the Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit in Corvallis, Oregon. Under this firm fixed-price contract with a ceiling value of $634,103.88, the contractor will perform early-line evaluation germplasm services involving planting, germination, screening, and selection of resistant hop germplasm offspring from...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service to Iowa State University of Science and Technology for corn double haploid production services. The contract has a ceiling value of $35,950.00 and a performance period through October 31, 2026. The original federal contract opportunity was a combined synopsis/solicitation for a texture analyzer 650H with Exponent software to support research at the USDA's Southeast Fruit...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $27,820 firm-fixed price purchase order to the University of Delaware to perform high-fidelity DNA sequencing of alfalfa genomic samples. The contract supports the USDA ARS's goal of developing genomic resources for alfalfa, which currently lacks a reference genome. The University of Delaware will isolate DNA, prepare libraries, and conduct long-read sequencing using Pacific Biosciences technology to generate...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a purchase order to Second Nature Research, LLC for $256,500 on September 1, 2026, under a total small business set-aside for wheat nursery planting services in Yuma, Arizona. The contract requires planting approximately 2,000 lines of winter wheat across 511 rows and 30 lines in 540 plots, with the contractor providing irrigation, weed control, fungicide application, bird deterrence, hand-harvesting, threshing, and delivery...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $39,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Data2Bio LLC on December 20, 2018, to support ongoing crop improvement and protection research at the USDA ARS facility in Salinas, California. Under this contract, Data2Bio will provide continuity of DNA extraction and genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) analysis services for lettuce samples, along with project management, data analysis reporting, and delivery of...