The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine awarded a single-award indefinite delivery contract to Lake States Yeast LLC with a potential value of $563,825. The contract is for a five-year period of performance through October 31, 2027 to procure inactive dried yeast primarily grown to support the agency's plant protection and quarantine programs. Under the contract, the agency issued a delivery order to Lake States Yeast LLC for...
The Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service awarded Biolog, Inc. an indefinite delivery contract to supply Rainbow Agar O157 30-gram packs across three agency laboratories through May 2025. The contract has a potential value of $400,000 and facilitates continued access to specialized media supporting foodborne pathogen screening. Associated delivery orders under the contract vehicle specify provision of the agar to FSIS sites in St. Louis and elsewhere, enabling the agency...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) awarded a single-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC) to Uct, LLC, doing business as United Chemical Technologies Inc., for the delivery of solid phase extraction columns, QuEChERS salt kits, and QuEChERS salt packages. These specialized products support FSIS's food safety testing programs, enabling the agency to conduct chemical residue analysis of meat, poultry, and egg products. The IDC, valued at up...
This indefinite delivery contract (IDC) was awarded by the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) to Chesapeake Perl, Inc., a for-profit organization and manufacturer of goods, to provide requirements for proteins. The single-award IDC has a ceiling value of $2,500,000 and a period of performance from December 2011 to December 2014. The task orders issued under this contract cover the development and delivery of various proteins, including an acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) null mutant, over the base...
The Department of Agriculture awarded a single award indefinite delivery contract to Epoch Life Science Inc. with a potential value of $960,000 to purchase custom gene synthesis in support of foreign animal disease research at Plum Island Center. No set-aside was used. The contract includes a period of performance through March 2022 for the issuance of delivery orders. The originating pre-solicitation sought sources capable of providing gene synthesis services to support the Foreign Animal...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) to Epoch Life Science Inc., a biotechnology company, to provide custom gene synthesis, site-directed mutagenesis, subcloning, and sequence verification services. This single-award IDC has a ceiling value of $300,000 and a period of performance from March 27, 2018 to April 1, 2021, with no set-aside designations. Through various firm-fixed price delivery orders issued...
This indefinite delivery contract was awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Epoch Life Science Inc., a biotechnology company that specializes in providing custom gene synthesis and related services to support federal agricultural research programs. The contract, valued at $600,000, enables the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to efficiently procure Epoch Life Science's specialized gene synthesis, site-directed mutagenesis, subcloning, and sequence...
The USDA Agricultural Research Service awarded a single-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to Epoch Life Science Inc. with a potential value of $480,361. The IDV aims to procure custom gene synthesis services in support of the agency's agricultural research programs. A firm fixed price delivery order valued at $168,133.24 was subsequently placed against the IDV. This order requires Epoch Life Science to provide custom gene synthesis services, with all work to be performed...
This Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) was awarded by the U.S. Forest Service, a civilian agency within the Department of Agriculture, to Qiagen, LLC, a subsidiary of Qiagen N.V. The purpose of this single-award BPA is for the purchase of DNeasy 96 Plant Kits, which are DNA extraction kits used for biomedical research, public health, and other federal programs supported by the agency. Qiagen, an international biotechnology company, has provided a range of molecular diagnostics products, reagents,...
The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Gumix International, Inc. to provide agar powder in support of various APHIS PPQ programs. Under the single award IDV valued at up to $344,400, Gumix has received three firm fixed price delivery orders to furnish specified quantities of agar powder for use at multiple locations. The orders awarded to date total $112,280 and...