Indefinite Delivery Contract 12639526D0021
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- The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a blanket purchase agreement to Charm Sciences Inc. of Lawrence, Massachusetts for aflatoxin testing supplies and kits. Over multiple task orders from FY2020 through FY2025, the contracts have a combined value of approximately $500,000 and provide aflatoxin products to support the agencies' science, technology, and regulatory programs. The awards leverage the BPAs to procure...
- This Indefinite Delivery Contract, awarded on July 9, 2013, to Charm Sciences Inc., provides the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Administrative Services Procurement Management Branch with a $5 million ceiling for the procurement of KIS-10 test kits, negative controls, and digital incubators. The contract is a single-award, non-set-aside vehicle with an ultimate completion date of August 8, 2018, and represents a critical procurement mechanism for specialized food safety diagnostic...
- The Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) awarded a $6 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) to Charm Sciences Inc., a manufacturer of diagnostic test kits based in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The contract is for the delivery of CHARM KIS (Kinetic Interaction Solvent Extraction) test kits, which are used to detect antimicrobial drug residues in meat and poultry products to support USDA-FSIS's food safety inspection programs. Several delivery...
- This indefinite delivery contract (IDC) was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Charm Sciences Inc., a small business manufacturer of food safety, water quality, and environmental diagnostic tests and equipment. The $144,375 single-award IDIQ contract covers the provision of ochratoxin tests for the USDA over a four-year period from October 2021 to August 2025. The contract was originally solicited as a small business set-aside opportunity by the USDA Marketing and Regulatory...
- The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service Science and Technology Program awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement to Charm Sciences Inc. with a potential value of $30,000. No set-aside was used. The BPA enables the purchase of Ochratoxin A test kits to be ordered through October 26, 2021. As the federal agency responsible for oversight of food marketing and quality, the Agricultural Marketing Service aims to ensure safe agricultural products reach consumers. Through...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Administrative Services Procurement Management Branch awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $6,000,000 to Charm Sciences Inc. for the provision of CHARM Kidney Inhibition Swab (KIS) test kits and related diagnostic supplies. The contract was awarded on August 7, 2018, with an ultimate completion date of August 8, 2023. Charm Sciences Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Lawrence, Massachusetts,...
- 3M Company's Government Markets Division holds a multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (Contract No. 123A9418D0016) valued at $6.5 million, awarded July 5, 2018, with an ultimate completion date of January 4, 2024, by the Office of Administrative Services Procurement Management Branch, a civilian federal agency. The contract's primary purpose is to adequately equip all three U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) laboratories with pathogen detection...
- The Office of Administrative Services Procurement Management Branch, a civilian federal agency, awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $770,000 to Biomerieux Inc. (doing business as Vitek Systems, Inc.) on June 27, 2024, for the provision of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) detection kits and related diagnostic screening technology. The contract, which remains active through June 26, 2027, was awarded without set-aside designation and was issued in...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $10.65 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract to Silliker, Inc. (Merieux Nutrisciences Division) on March 1, 2022, with a completion date of September 30, 2026. No set-aside designation was utilized for this procurement. The contract provides laboratory analysis services supporting United States Government food donation programs, with all work performed at Silliker's Chicago, Illinois location. Silliker, a...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Administrative Services Procurement Management Branch awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract with a ceiling value of $450,000 to Hygiena LLC (UEI: Y5LEVQB5MXC7) on May 22, 2017, with an ultimate completion date of February 17, 2018. This single-award, firm fixed-price contract with no set-aside designation establishes a framework for the supply of BAX kits used for rapid microbial detection and pathogen identification. Hygiena LLC, a for-profit...
Charm Sciences Inc., a Lawrence, Massachusetts-based diagnostic testing solutions manufacturer, was awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract by the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service on April 17, 2026, under a total small business set-aside designation. The contract has a ceiling value of $1,000,000 with an ultimate completion date of April 16, 2031, and will provide commercially available quantitative lateral flow mycotoxin test kits, extraction materials, controls, and general laboratory consumables necessary to perform aflatoxin, deoxynivalenol (DON), fumonisin, and zearalenone testing on grain samples. The Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS), which operates under the Agricultural Marketing Service, requires an estimated 25,000 quantitative mycotoxin tests annually to support grain inspection and export compliance activities, particularly for corn exported from the United States. The underlying solicitation, issued as a Special Notice on April 16, 2026, established technical requirements mandating quantitative water-based extraction capabilities with defined testing ranges for each mycotoxin type and analysis completion within 30 minutes, with test kits maintaining a minimum three-month shelf life at room temperature and holding an active FGIS Certificate of Conformance. The contract structure includes an annual fiscal year ceiling of $200,000 with no minimum guarantee, with awards made on a best-choice basis considering cost, test kit performance, testing platform compatibility, equipment standardization, and total commodity coverage. Charm Sciences must provide all non-disposable equipment at no cost, offer free training for two employees at each of the 24 FGIS offices across Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, and Oregon, and maintain active System for Award Management (SAM) and IPP.GOV accounts, with delivery required within 30 days of order placement.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $0 | 4/26/26 |
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Rapid Mycotoxin Test Kits | 1162756 | Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services | Special Notice 1/1 | 4/16/26, 1:22 PM |