Purchase Order AG7D28P160015

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $20,000 firm fixed-price purchase order to Desert Sun Dairy, LLC for the procurement of 20 head of cattle to support a USDA research experiment. The contract, awarded on March 31, 2016, with an ultimate completion date of April 29, 2016, represents a short-duration acquisition with performance to be completed in Clovis, New Mexico. No set-aside designation was utilized for this procurement. The contract was funded through the USDA's Plains Area...

This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Superior Livestock, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the provision of 18 Holstein calves that are colostrum-deprived for use in agricultural and veterinary research. The $18,300.00 contract has a completion date of June 5, 2020 and was not set aside for any specific socioeconomic category. The calves are required to be negative for bovine...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $258,892.92 firm fixed price purchase order to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to deliver 364 head of steer calves born and raised at the US Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska. The solicitation was a sole source notice of intent issued for the purchase of 364 male calves with appropriate genotypic and phenotypic traits...

The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Plains Area awarded a purchase order to Gillespie Livestock Company Inc., a small business, for 51 head of research cattle (calves) valued at $153,000 on June 5, 2026, with a completion date of June 4, 2027. This total small business set-aside purchase order requires cattle weighing 400–500 pounds per animal, aged 6–24 months, consisting of steers and/or heifers with Hereford as the primary breed preference, followed by Black Angus or Charolais....

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) Plains Area awarded a purchase order to Gillespie Livestock Company Inc. on May 30, 2023, for the procurement of nine research cattle. The contract, valued at $8,880.75 with a firm fixed price structure, specifies delivery of female Hereford cattle weighing between 300–450 pounds and aged 6–24 months, to be delivered to Fredericksburg, Texas by June 30, 2023. The requirement for a single-sex group reflects the...

This $20,600 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Superior Livestock, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to provide twelve colostrum deprived Holstein or Holstein/cross calves. The calves will be used in research to evaluate the nasopharyngeal colonization of Mannheimia haemolytica and its isogenic mutants in cattle at the USDA's National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa. This contract was set...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Midwest Area awarded a $78,400 firm fixed price purchase order to Superior Livestock, Inc. doing business as Superior Livestock Inc. to provide Hereford cross calves for use in a study of the effects of BCG-RB51 co-administration on the immune response to RB51 and BCG. The solicitation was issued as Request for Quote number 12505B23Q0262 and set aside 100% for small businesses....

The USDA Agricultural Research Service Plains Area awarded a purchase order to Gillespie Livestock Company Inc., a small business, for six head of cattle (calves) valued at $16,553.50, with an award date of April 1, 2026. Performance is due by September 30, 2026, at Fredericksburg, Texas. The cattle are research animals intended to support federal agricultural research programs, procured under firm fixed price terms. This purchase order is issued as a task order under the company's $975,000 IDIQ...

The United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at fifty-one thousand six hundred fifty dollars to Superior Livestock, Inc. for the delivery of forty-one Holstein calves. The contract is being carried out in accordance with the statement of work to supply the calves, with performance taking place in Joice, Iowa through October 16, 2023. As the USDA ARS conducts agricultural research, this contract supports the acquisition...

The Department of Agriculture issued a $126,000 delivery order to Gillespie Livestock Company Inc., a small business, on August 17, 2026, under a total small business set-aside for the procurement of forty head of research cattle (calves). The awardee is a Texas-based supplier specializing in research cattle meeting federal specifications—typically Hereford, Black Angus, or Charolais breeds weighing 300–550 pounds, aged 6–24 months, free of Brahman influence and cattle fever tick exposure. Place...