Under Contract

The State Department is spending $27,100 on pool furniture for the U.S. Embassy compound in Pristina, the capital of -Kosovo. Bialek Environments, a company that mostly makes office furniture, won the contract. The State Department did not open up the contract to bidding from others, saying that the “furniture chosen is manufactured with proprietary material specifically engineered to withstand the effects of long-term exposure to the environment.”

The U.S. Agency for International Development awarded a $10 million, one-year contract to Dynasty Oil & Gas Private Limited, an Indian offshore drilling company. The company is being asked to “install, operate, and maintain” a solar energy system in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan and supply the power generated from the system to Afghan power utility Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) in a 15-year power purchase agreement. The project, run jointly by USAID and DABS, aims to “meet the anticipated short term supply deficits of power in Kandahar” that resulted from the ending of a power subsidy provided by the U.S. government.

{mosads}Boss Buck, a Texas-based company, won a $239,000 contract to provide 1,000 “deer feeders” that dispense medically treated corn for white tail deer in Texas along the Mexican border. The U.S. Department of Agriculture needs the feeders, which must hold 250 pounds to 350 pounds of ivermectin-treated corn, to help control the cattle fever tick from Mexico, which can infect livestock with cattle fever, which is fatal in most cases. While the ticks infect various types of farm animals, the deer in the area are also common hosts for the insect. 

Contract information compiled from General Services Administration data and government press releases. Send announcements about government contracts to mwilson@digital-staging.thehill.com.