The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) to Zirchron LLC, a minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned business, for mineral separation services to support future geochronology and isotopic tracer investigations. The contract has a potential value of $200,000.00 and a period of performance through May 14, 2029. The contracted services involve processing rock and sediment samples to individual mineral separates based on size, density, and magnetic...
The USGS awarded a single-award IDV contract to the University of Arkansas for stable isotope analysis of carbonate minerals and organic matter. The contract value is $250,000 with a period of performance through January 2029. The original solicitation sought these analytical services to support the USGS Geology, Energy, and Minerals Science Center in Reston, Virginia. No set-asides were applied to this requirement, which was competed under RFQ 140G0123Q0196 and posted to SAM.gov in June 2023...
The USGS was awarded a single-award IDV contract to Geosoftware, LLC for geological seismic software products and services. The contract has a potential value of $250,000 and period of performance through August 2027. A $21,600 firm fixed price delivery order was also awarded to Geosoftware, LLC to provide a term license for HampsonRussell seismic software supporting the agency's seismic data analysis through August 2023 in Houston, Texas. The originating solicitation sought quotes for the IDV...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency within the Department of the Interior, has awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract valued up to $13,000,000 to SGS Canada Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for chemical analysis of geological materials. The IDIQ contract, awarded in July 2024 with a period of performance through January 2030, enables the USGS to issue firm fixed price delivery orders for specialized analytical services as...
The Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey awarded a single award Indefinite Delivery Contract to Washington State University to provide geochemical laboratory analyses services. The contract has a potential value of $500,000 and a period of performance through July 2028. No set asides were used. Under the contract, the awardee will conduct major and trace element rock sample analyses using X-ray fluorescence and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry methods at its...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $240,000 to SGS Axys Analytical Services LTD., a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for contaminant characterization laboratory analysis services. This IDC will support the USGS's environmental research, monitoring, and public health initiatives through SGS Axys's specialized analytical services to quantify a wide range of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and contaminants of emerging...
This is a single-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Office of Acquisitions and Grants, to Trichanalytics Inc., a for-profit woman-owned business. The contract is for the provision of Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) services to support the analysis of trace element concentrations in small solid and biological samples. The contract has a ceiling value of $499,999 and a performance...
The Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey (USGS) has awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to SGS Canada Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for chemical analysis services. Under this single-award IDIQ contract valued at up to $1.75 million, SGS Canada Inc. will provide chemical analysis of geologic materials such as plants, waters, soils, sediments, and rocks to identify inorganic constituents. The USGS can issue firm fixed price...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency within the Department of the Interior, has awarded an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for Science and Technical Support Services to Akima Systems Engineering LLC, an 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business. The $20 million IDIQ contract has a period of performance through December 31, 2025. Under this IDIQ, Akima has received numerous delivery orders to provide a variety of professional, technical, and scientific...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian federal agency, has awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) with a ceiling value of $2,999,999.99 to Seitel, Inc., a for-profit organization, for the procurement of existing 2D multichannel seismic reflection data over a five-year period. This IDC was awarded as a result of a Request for Information (RFI) and Sources Sought notice, with the anticipated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code being 541360 for geophysical...