SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- Notice of Intent Illumina Universal Starter Kit
- Notice Date
- 11/3/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, ATTN: MCMR-AAA, 820 Chandler Street, Frederick, MD 21702-5014
- ZIP Code
- 21702-5014
- Solicitation Number
- W81XWH15T0047
- Archive Date
- 11/3/2015
- Point of Contact
- Kimberly Hannan, 3016193490
- E-Mail Address
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US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
(kimberly.s.hannan.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) in support of U.S. Army Center for Enviromental Health Research (USACEHR) intends to negotiate solely (as prescribed om FAR 13.106(b)(1)(i) with Illumina Inc., 5200 Illumina Way, San Diego, CA 92122 for the procurement of Universal Starter Kit. Specifically: Universal Starter Kit (110V) hardware and software kit is intended to manually process GoldenGate-Genotyping, Gene Expression-,MiRNA, DASL-, Methylation-, Infinium-based products using Beadchip arrays for up to 8 beadchips of one assay type. (Catalog # / ID): SE-101-1006. The Universal starter kit consists of equipments required to manually process beadchips for use with HiScan system from Illumina. USACEHR already owns an illumina HiScan system that is currently being used for next generation sequencing. The addition of Universal starter kit will allow multiple types of analyses including single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping, gene expression analysis and CpG methylation status analysis. At the current time the predominant use of the system will be used for Infinium Human Methylation 450 bead array. This is a comprehensive and high -throughput array and is ideal for identifying methylation biomarkers. These items are required for use in the Illumina iScan and HiScan Systems and Illumina Inc. is the only company capable providing the required Starter Kit. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this requirement is 334516 and the size standard is 500 employees. This announcement constitutes the only notice by the government; a written solicitation will not be issued. All sources that believe they are eligible to provide these items must respond in writing. Responses must be supported with clear and convincing evidence to clearly articulate the ability to provide the items outlined above. A request for documentation will not be considered an affirmative response. This Special Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive quotes. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether a competitive procurement is in the best interest of the Government. If no written responses are received by the date listed below, which reflects fifteen (15) days after the publication of this notice, the purchase will be awarded without further remark. All questions and responses concerning this notice shall be emailed to Ms. Kimberly Hannan at kimberly.s.hannan.civ@mail.mil. Interested concerns must identify their capability in writing to the above e-mail address or by mail to the address listed below no later than 3:00 pm ET, Monday November 17, 2014
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