<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 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...
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...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division operating as Research and Sponsored Programs. The $249,998 grant was awarded on December 17, 2018 and is set to be completed by December 16, 2021. The grant supports the development of bioinformatics tools and data visualization capabilities for the GeneLab Data Repository, a resource that contains...
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 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...
This contract was awarded by the Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Biomatters Incorporated, a bioinformatics software company. The $31,050.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order provides Biomatters' customers the ability to perform exports of GenBank, SnapGene, and FASTQ data management, as well as automated external database searches and custom algorithm development. The contract has a performance period through July 16, 2024 and...
The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Steve Michel, a sole proprietorship in Albany, California, to provide database development and administration services for the GrainGenes database project. The $248,234.40 contract, which runs from June 2020 to July 2022, with a one-year option, engages Michel as the subject matter expert and database developer to maintain continuity of the GrainGenes database...
This federal contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Steve Michel, a sole proprietorship based in Albany, California. The $153,894 firm-fixed-price purchase order is for database developer and administration services to support the ongoing GrainGenes database, which is part of the USDA ARS Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit's Small Grains Database and Bioinformatics Resources project. The contract period of performance...
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...