Purchase Order AGF430P110014

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering Research and Development Center-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) awarded a $25,531.50 firm fixed-price purchase order to the University of Illinois to provide lichen sample analysis services. The University of Illinois was selected as the sole source provider due to its unique capabilities, including proximity to the CERL site, ownership of high-quality laboratory equipment for genomic sequencing, and expertise in...

This is a firm fixed-price delivery order contract awarded by the National Office of the National Park Service to Geomorph Information Systems, LLC, a San Diego-based small disadvantaged, woman-owned, and economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business. The $75,998 contract is for a lichen inventory survey at Lassics Botanical Area (LABE) and is set aside for total small businesses. The award is made under Geomorph's existing Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract with the General Services...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center awarded a $19,980 firm fixed-price purchase order to Seqmatic, LLC for lichen RNA analysis services. The contract, designated U435CEO-T, requires extraction, sequencing, assembly, and functional annotation of genomic sequences from lichen samples cultured at the ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. Work will be performed in Fremont, California, with an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2025. No...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $231,674.26 firm fixed-price purchase order to Anthropological Research LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business, to conduct an ethnographic study of the Alpine Loop in Gunnison, Colorado. This sole-source contract was based on the company's established relationship with the Southern Ute Tribe and its capability to perform the required work, which includes literature review, tribal representative interviews, field visits, and the production of...

This is a delivery order awarded to Geomorph Information Systems, LLC, a small, woman-owned, and economically disadvantaged business based in San Diego, California. The $147,946.50 contract was issued by the National Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior, a civilian agency, under the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. The contract is for environmental services related to the monitoring and assessment of lichen and bryophyte (moss) species in the Ashford, Washington area. The contract...

The SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific research organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, has been awarded a $770,669 research grant by a federal agency to investigate the molecular response and physiological adaptation of moss to simulated deep space cosmic ionizing radiation and spaceflight microgravity. This project represents fundamental astrobiology research examining how organisms respond to the extreme environmental conditions encountered beyond Earth's protective...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Region 6 - Pacific Northwest Region to Rickshory COM for $9,960.00. The contract is to build a lichen database for the Oregon State University Specimen Transfer Project and update the main lichen database. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on April 29, 2015 with a completion date of April 30, 2016. Rickshory COM is a for-profit organization registered in the System for Award...

Louviere Stratton & Yokel LLC, doing business as LSY Architects & Laboratory Planners, was awarded a $373,609 firm fixed-price definitive contract by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on September 20, 2024, to conduct a feasibility study and develop a master plan for modernizing the Eastern Ecological Science Center (EESC) at Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Maryland. The contract is set aside for total small business and carries an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2025. Under this...

Biophilia LLC was awarded a purchase order contract by the USDA Forest Service for $5,596 to conduct a pollinator survey in the Washburn Ranger District of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin. Set aside for total small businesses, the contract requires Biophilia LLC to perform field surveys of butterflies, moths, and other pollinators through December 31, 2023 to support the agency's conservation and land management programs. As a self-certified small disadvantaged business,...

This firm fixed price purchase order contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Northern Research Station to Lynn C. Peterson, a sole proprietorship, to provide field assistant services in support of research on the impacts of the emerald ash borer (EAB) beetle on black ash populations and climate change effects in northern Minnesota forests. The $124,500.00 contract has an ultimate completion date of September 10, 2028 and does not have a set-aside...