This federal contract IDV award is for the provision of specialized pest detection and monitoring tools to support the mission of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) division. The prime contractor, Alpha Scents, Inc., is a small business manufacturer of insect lures, traps, and other forestry pest detection products based in Canby, Oregon.
The IDV contract, valued at a ceiling of $265,000, is a 5-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) vehicle that allows USDA APHIS PPQ to order various types of lures and traps as needed to support their agricultural pest detection and monitoring programs. This includes products such as forestry lures, alpha pinene ultra-high release lures, ethanol ultra-high release lures, and specialized traps like cross-vane panel traps and plastic bucket traps. The contract was set aside for small businesses, positioning Alpha Scents as a key supplier of these critical pest detection tools that help safeguard U.S. plant resources, forests, and natural areas from invasive insect pests and diseases.
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