The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA AMS) awarded a multiple award indefinite delivery contract (IDC) worth up to $9.6 million to Food Safety Net Services, Ltd. (FSNS), a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The contract is for FSNS to provide laboratory analysis services in support of USDA food donation programs, including testing agricultural commodity samples for microbiological contamination. FSNS performs this work at...
The federal contract IDV award is for the provision of laboratory services to test beef products for microbiological contamination. The prime contractor, Silliker, Inc. - Merieux Nutrisciences Division, is a foreign-owned for-profit organization that specializes in food safety and quality testing, analysis, and related services.
The contract, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service, is a single-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC) with a ceiling...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a single award indefinite delivery contract to Institute For Environmental Health Inc., doing business as IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group. The potential value of the contract is $800,000. Two firm fixed price delivery orders have been issued to date for laboratory services to test beef and meat products for microbiological contamination. The first delivery order, issued on October 6, 2021 for $400,000, is for...
The Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) awarded a $250,000 single-award indefinite delivery contract to Communications Professionals Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of Abraxis test kits. The contract, which runs through March 2028, supports FSIS food safety analytical testing programs that enable rapid pathogen detection in commercial meat, poultry, and egg products to ensure food safety. Under this IDC, FSIS has issued...
The Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service awarded a blanket purchase agreement and subsequent task orders to Government Scientific Source Inc. for the delivery of laboratory supplies and services. The $800,000 blanket purchase agreement established a single award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract vehicle for pipette tips and whole genome sequencing typing and interpretation to support food safety inspection and laboratory testing programs. Three firm...
The Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service awarded a single award indefinite delivery contract to Thermo Fisher Scientific Remel Products to provide various analytical testing supplies and services in support of food safety programs. Task orders issued against the contract total $400,000 and include supplies for antimicrobial susceptibility testing, laboratory materials from Illumina, and items for the Eastern Laboratory/National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) has awarded Biomerieux Inc., a global leader in in vitro diagnostics, an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $134,325 to provide salmonella enumeration instruments, kits, and reagents for the agency's three field service laboratories. Biomerieux will deliver these specialized microbiological testing solutions through a series of firm-fixed-price delivery orders issued against the IDC over its 3-year...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) awarded a single-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC) to LGC Proficiency Testing Inc. of Athens, Georgia. The $124,202 IDC, with a performance period through December 31, 2025, is for providing proficiency testing samples to support FSIS's food safety programs and laboratory operations.
Under this IDC, FSIS has issued multiple firm-fixed price delivery orders to LGC Proficiency Testing, including a $25,627...
The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA AMS) has awarded a $10.6 million multiple award indefinite delivery contract (IDC) to Silliker, Inc. Merieux Nutrisciences Division, a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for laboratory analysis services to support USDA food donation programs. Under this IDC, Silliker has received $4.35 million in initial delivery orders to conduct chemical, microbiological, and contaminant testing to verify the safety and quality of food...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) awarded a 5-year, $950,000 single-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to World Bioproducts LLC, a manufacturer of food safety testing products, to provide sterile laboratory bags, including filter bags, used to separate meat particles from enrichment broth for analysis. This contract supports FSIS's food safety inspection programs across three of its laboratory locations in Athens, GA; St....