The United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine awarded Gulf Aviation Inc. a single award Indefinite Delivery Contract with a potential value of $2.44M. Gulf Aviation Inc. will provide flight hours in support of sterile insect dispersal for plant protection and quarantine programs.
Two firm fixed price delivery orders have been issued against the contract to date. The first, awarded October 2023, is a $198K order for aerial dispersal of sterile fruit flies in Harlingen, Texas running through September 2024. The second, a $385K order awarded February 2023, provides flight hours through September 2023 also out of Harlingen. As part of its mission to control invasive species damaging crops, USDA-APHIS works with contractors like Gulf Aviation Inc. to control fruit fly populations through aerial application of sterile insects in Texas. No subcontractors or set-asides were identified for work performed under the delivery orders to date.
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