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Purchase and installation of a Gerstel Freestyle Robotic System

Department of Agriculture · ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE · Presolicitation · 12639526Q0220

posted 14 July 2026 · closed 20 July 2026 · NAICS 334516 · PSC 6640

Summary

The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service intends to purchase and install two Gerstel Freestyle Robotic System CEM Oracle 6 fat and moisture analyzers for use at National Science Laboratories in North Carolina and Georgia. The equipment will be used to determine moisture and fat content in food samples using an AOAC method, supporting analytical chemistry needs of the labs.

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