Purchase Order AG91H2P170042

This firm fixed-price purchase order, awarded February 1, 2017, provides bioinformatics database system support services for the ongoing GrainGenes research project at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) Crop, Irrigation, and Grassland Unit (CIGU) in Albany, California. The prime contractor is David L. Hane (UEI: JMJTNF64SN78), who provides system administration and programming services on a part-time to half-time basis. The contract ceiling value is...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $672,000 definitive contract to Michel, Steve for database development and maintenance of the GrainGenes database project on September 29, 2022, under a total small business set-aside. The contract runs through September 29, 2027 and covers one base year plus four option years. Place of performance is Berkeley, CA. The originating sources-sought notice, posted June 28, 2022, sought qualified developers to enhance and operate...

This is a firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Steve Michel, a sole proprietor small business located in Albany, California. The contract is for $124,132.24 to provide database developer and administration services for the GrainGenes database, a public scientific database that houses genetic information on small grain crops like barley, wheat, oat, and rye. The contract is to support the ongoing...

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 USDA Agricultural Research Service awarded a purchase order to Novogene Corporation Inc., a minority-owned small business, on September 30, 2025, valued at $35,353.00, for various sequencing and analyses supporting small grains research at the Plains Area location. Work is performed in Sacramento, California, with delivery to the USDA ARS Cereal Crops Research facility in Fargo, North Dakota. The order covers high-throughput sequencing services including RNA samples requiring mRNA-Seq, DNA...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a $83,240 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Novogene Corp Inc., a minority-owned small business, for genome sequencing of grapevine. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, supports research aimed at improving fruit quality, disease resistance, and tolerance of abiotic stress in grapes. Novogene, which has received over 100 prime contract awards from federal agencies since 2015 to provide genomic...

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...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $123,997.25 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Reisinger Martin Andrew, a small disadvantaged business, for documentation and technical assistance related to the GRIN-GLOBAL information management system. The award, which has a completion date of January 15, 2015, is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and was not set aside for any specific business type. The GRIN-GLOBAL system is a critical...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $1,460 firm-fixed-price purchase order to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to provide genome editing services for four experiments over a one-year period from March 6, 2017 to March 5, 2018. The work will be conducted at UC Davis facilities and supervised by the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Grape Genetics Research Unit located at Cornell University in Geneva, New York. This award does not have a small business...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Reisinger Martin Andrew, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for $560,704.10. The contract is for technical documentation and training services related to the GRIN-GLOBAL information management system, a critical component of the ARS National Germplasm Resources Laboratory's agricultural research infrastructure. This contract is a total small...