Livestock Respiration Chamber
Agriculture (all) · USDA ARS AFM APD
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 1232SA26Q0569 in this department, oldest first.
Next steps for this stage
Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.
- Decide bid or no bid before the response deadline.
- Look at the past winners for likely competitors and teaming partners.
- Follow the opportunity to hear about amendments and the award.
What the notice says
Description of Amendment 1 RFI Answer Question - Can you please provide designs for these chambers? Answer - The government is interested in the respiration chamber for in situ measurements described by the authors in this manuscript and illustrated in figure 2.A. It is important that this device is moveable between pens, but heavy enough to withstand impact from pens of full-size beef cattle (hence we expect it will need to be on a skid and moved by a skid steer). The device should ideally be able to entice animals to use it and monitor individual eructation (belches)/breathes via an intake m… (show all)
anifold for carbon dioxide, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and methane. The device should use a radio frequency identification tag to monitor the individual animals and sync the gaseous data to a cloud-based platform via WiFi or cellular modem. We would expect the manufacturer to provide site level installation and continuous training and customer support for the life of the product. All other terms and conditions remain the same. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Quotations are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number 1232SA26Q0569 is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for Livestock Respiration Chamber. This acquisition is set-aside for small business concerns. The applicable North American Industry Classification Standard Code is 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing The small business size standard is 1,000 Employees This acquisition is a Total Small Business Set-Aside. All responsible sources may submit a quotation which will be considered by the agency. Statement of Requirement Provide a livestock respiration chamber, training and installation to Burlington, VT. See Attachment 1 - Specifications for a complete list of requirements. Schedule of Items � See the SF-1449. Technical Data - Technical data and supporting documentation associated with this solicitation are available through the following sources: Solicitation Attachments The following documents are included as attachments to this solicitation and can be accessed via the �Attachments/Links� section of the posting. Attachment 1 � Technical Specifications
Who won similar work
138 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (USDA ARS AFM APD), same product/service code (PSC) 6640 and NAICS 334516.
Single-winner award sizes (138): middle half $34K to $121K, median $66K; range $8K to $45.0M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC | 9 | $1.0M | Sep 3, 2026 |
| ELEMENT BIOSCIENCES, INC. | 5 | $8.8M | Aug 3, 2026 |
| GERSTEL INC | 3 | $382K | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Fisher Scientific Company · $TMO · $42.9B | 3 | $310K | Sep 30, 2026 |
| FRANKLIN YOUNG INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED | 3 | $283K | Jun 11, 2026 |
| ANTON PAAR USA, INC | 3 | $185K | Sep 22, 2026 |
| FSR CONSULTING LLC | 3 | $146K | Jun 18, 2026 |
| AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC · $A · $6.8B | 2 | $359K | Jul 17, 2026 |
| HARVARD BIOSCIENCE, INC. | 2 | $352K | Sep 22, 2025 |
| C-LOCK, INC. | 2 | $292K | Sep 10, 2026 |
Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.
- $TMO reported $42.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 138 past awards, $66K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
- $A reported $6.8B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 138 past awards, $66K, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.
- Oct 1, 2026Kincaid Equipment Manufacturing, Inc.$32KELUTRIATOR FOR EXTRACTING WEED SEED, USDA, ARS , PULLMAN, WANo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 30, 2026Fisher Scientific Company$40KDigital Polymerase Chain Reaction (dPCR) InstrumentMateriality: <0.01% of $TMO revenue (Low) SEC
- Sep 30, 2026K&R TECHNOLOGIES LLC$49K90-liter Horizontal Benchtop AutoclaveNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 29, 2026MILESTONE INC$62KMilestone Brand Name Microwave Digestive System - Award NoticeNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 28, 2026WINTERSTEIGER SEEDMECH LLC$97KCombine-mounted NIRSNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 28, 2026GFS SUPPLY & SERVICES COMPANY$11KDehumidifier for walk-in coolerNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 28, 2026LI-COR, INC.$57KFlux Towers - Mandan NDNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 25, 2026HUNT OPTICS & IMAGING INC$33KOlympus BX53 Fluorescent Microscope with Phase ContrastNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 24, 2026QUAKELOGIC, INC.$150KSingle Quadrupole Gas Chromatograph � Mass SpectrometerNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 24, 2026YELLOW TAG AUCTIONS, LLC$57KRover and Rotor Spinning FrameNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.
Competitive landscape
For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.
- 1 of these past winners lobbied Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) since 2024 (1 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) job
- $30K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Agriculture, House Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Senate Committee on Appropriations
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
Policy around it
Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.
- 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
- 132 rules from the department in the last 12 months
- 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
Market
For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.
- 2 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 8 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.
Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.