Purchase Order HHSN261201600741P

This is a federal purchase order contract awarded by the National Cancer Institute, a civilian agency, to Battelle Memorial Institute for the analysis of glyphosate in residential dust samples and the risk of childhood leukemia in the California Childhood Leukemia Study. The contract has a firm fixed price of $149,137.00 and a completion date of September 30, 2016. The contract was not set aside for any specific business type. The National Cancer Institute is conducting this research to...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $27,160 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Emsl Analytical Inc., doing business as La Testing, for laboratory services to analyze pesticide residues in air samples. This contract supports APHIS's Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) program's plant commodity import operations. The contract requires the laboratory to perform chlorinated pesticide analysis using NIOSH Method 5510 and organophosphorus...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order award by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for $125,250 to evaluate the variability in pesticide concentrations in house dust samples collected from farmers' homes. The samples were previously obtained as part of the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture (BEEA) study, a sub-study of the...

This is a $14,969.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 6 - Pacific Northwest Region to RTI International, a non-profit research organization, to develop a proprietary laboratory technique for measuring glyphosate in lichens. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. RTI International is an experienced federal contractor, holding several significant indefinite delivery vehicles (IDVs) with agencies such as the EPA,...

This is a federal contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to Eastern Research Group Inc. (ERG), a for-profit environmental and health consulting firm, to provide public health assessment services. The $3,035,261.28 firm fixed price contract is a delivery order issued under the CDC's larger ATSDR Public Health Assessment Activities IDIQ vehicle. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Under this award, ERG is...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development to the University of California, Davis for $82,173 to identify unique candidate compounds in dust samples from recent observational exposure measurement studies involving children. The purpose is to estimate children's dust ingestion. The contract has no set-aside designation. UC Davis is a major public research university that frequently receives federal...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) awarded a $68,640.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Eurofins EAG Materials Science LLC, doing business as Eurofins EAG Laboratories, for a FIFRA Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) Preliminary (5-Batch) Analysis study. The contract requires Eurofins to conduct a comprehensive analysis of five batches of a biochar pesticide active ingredient, sodium nitrite, including characterization of the...

This $80,785 firm fixed-price purchase order contract was awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants, a civilian federal agency, to SGS Axys Analytical Services Ltd., a foreign-owned, for-profit organization that specializes in environmental analytical testing services. The contract is for analyses to identify and quantify concentrations of parent and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in various environmental matrices related to wildfire contamination in the Santa Cruz...

This is a federal contract award from the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey to Gold Standard Diagnostics Horsham, Inc. for the provision of immunoassay (IA) analysis kits for glyphosate detection. The $21,599.00 firm fixed-price purchase order was issued on May 14, 2013 and required delivery by June 24, 2013. Gold Standard Diagnostics, a for-profit manufacturer, has previously received other prime contracts from federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency,...

This federal contract award, valued at $18,566,814.06, was issued by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (a civilian agency) to prime contractor Research Triangle Institute (RTI International), a non-profit research organization. The contract provides technical support for the development and implementation of pathway-based systematic reviews, a universe of chemicals, and a scientific IT platform. No set-aside designation was used. Toxstrategies, LLC, a for-profit scientific...