Purchase Order AG91H2P160035

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $19,920.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to The Bioinformatics CRO, Inc. (TBC) on April 1, 2025. The contract is for 25,001,672 bioinformatician hours and has an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2026. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. As a bioinformatics contract research organization, TBC will provide the requested bioinformatics support services to NHGRI, which is the lead...

<p>The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $115,200.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Western Feedstock Technologies, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to provide database gene curation services to support the GrainGenes research database project. The contract has a period of performance ending on July 30, 2018 and was awarded on July 31, 2017. No set-aside was used for this contract. The work will be performed in Albany, California.</p>

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $52,420 firm fixed-price purchase order to Biomatters Incorporated of Newark, New Jersey for 126 units of GENEIOUS Server software. The contract has no set-aside designation and is for the delivery of the specified products by December 10, 2014. No major subcontractors or additional context were provided regarding the agency's programs or intended use of the...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery awarded a $33,850 firm fixed price purchase order to Novogene Corp Inc. to sequence 200 cotton DNA samples. Per the original solicitation, the contractor will measure DNA quantity and quality, construct a specialized library using a PCR-free preparation method, sequence the library using next-generation sequencing to generate 24 gigabytes of sequence data for each sample, and...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $34,385 firm fixed price purchase order to Novogene Corp Inc. to provide RNA sequencing of 265 cotton samples. The solicitation sought a vendor to measure and check the RNA quantity and quality, construct a specialized library using the samples, sequence the library using next-generation sequencing to generate short reads, and upload the results to a hard disk. The work is to be completed within 45 business days of receipt...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $238,687 firm fixed price delivery order to Illumina, Inc. for a NEXTSEQ 2000 sequencing system, DRAGEN software, and silver support plan. The sequencing system and software will support the agency's laboratory equipment and services program by providing next generation DNA sequencing capabilities and analysis tools to researchers conducting agricultural...

This federal grant award to Weill Medical College of Cornell University, valued at $100,000.00, is for a project titled &quot;An Integrated Framework for Characterization of the Noncoding Genome and Epigenome in Astronauts&quot;. The grant is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and aims to expand and integrate bioinformatics tools to examine the regulatory changes to DNA and RNA in human cells, particularly in the context of space travel. The project will utilize...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has awarded a $672,000 fixed-price contract to Steve Michel, a sole proprietorship based in Albany, California, to continue developing and enhancing the GrainGenes database through September 2027. The contract was set aside for small businesses and falls under NAICS code 541511 for custom computer programming services. Under this contract, Michel will improve the Drupal-based web interface, develop and customize web...

Genohub, Inc. was awarded a $23,807 firm fixed price purchase order by the Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area within the Department of Agriculture. The contract calls for Genohub to use 50 nanograms of genomic DNA from 133 specimens to make Illumina NovaSeq-S4 paired-end libraries. The work is to be completed by September 30, 2022. As a total small business set-aside, this award supports the Agricultural Research Service's...

Novogene Corp Inc., a minority-owned small business, has been awarded a $14,772 firm fixed price purchase order by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. The contract calls for Novogene to perform RNA sequencing of 68 samples and resequencing of 30 samples in support of the agency's agricultural research efforts. Work will be conducted at Novogene's facility in Chula Vista, California with all work to be completed by November 30, 2021. This award was made as a...