The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awarded a $449,999.98 firm fixed price contract to Illumina, Inc., a manufacturer of DNA sequencing equipment, to provide a specialized Illumina NextSeq 550 DNA Sequencing system. This sole source contract was awarded without a set-aside designation, leveraging Illumina's patented and proprietary technology that the agency determined was the only option to meet their requirements. The contract was awarded to support the VA Boston Healthcare System's...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 (VA - VHA VISN 2) awarded a $335,250 firm fixed price purchase order to Illumina, Inc. to deliver a NextSeq 2000 Sequencing System. The solicitation sought to sole source this acquisition to support COVID sequencing efforts at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center. The Research department requires this sequencing instrument to conduct analysis of COVID samples. No subcontractors or set aside...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 awarded a $470,708 firm fixed price purchase order to Illumina, Inc. of San Diego, California. The contract is for the delivery of an Illumina NextSeq 2000 Sequencing System to the VA Boston Healthcare System Research and Development Department. The original solicitation sought offers for this sequencing system or compatible alternatives, noting the need for compatibility with existing...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) awarded a $509,545.97 firm fixed-price purchase order to Franklin Young International, Incorporated, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), for next generation sequencing system reagents and supplies. This award is associated with a larger VA IDIQ contract vehicle allowing the agency to efficiently procure recurring clinical diagnostics and laboratory research materials, with a potential value...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 (VA - VHA VISN 6) awarded a $343,449.20 firm fixed price purchase order to Government Scientific Source Inc., doing business as G S S, to deliver a next generation DNA sequencer and related supplies and services. The original solicitation, numbered 36C24624Q0024, sought offers for a benchtop sequencer capable of whole exome sequencing, RNA sequencing, and metabolomics with a run time of less...
This federal contract was awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration to Government Scientific Source Inc. (GSS), a for-profit organization, to provide a Nextseq 550 DNA sequencing system. The total potential value of the contract is $320,147.00. The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order without a set-aside designation. The system will be installed at the VA's Central Texas Veterans Health Care System (CTVHCS) Research Service in Temple, Texas and...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a $353,760 firm fixed price purchase order to Illumina, Inc. of San Diego, California. The contract is for the delivery of a NEXTSEQ 2000 sequencing system to the Iowa City VA Health Care System Research facility. The original solicitation sought a sequencing system capable of running whole genomes, exomes, transcriptomes, and single cell libraries in a single 24-48 hour run, meeting specified throughput and coverage...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order to Illumina, Inc. for a NextSeq 550DX Sequencing System and associated supplies. This sole-source award was made on September 17, 2019, with a potential value of $342,242.72 and a completion date of September 16, 2020. Illumina is a manufacturer of genomic sequencing and analysis instruments and reagents, and has previously provided similar products and services to federal agencies like...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a $211,557.25 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Government Scientific Source Inc., a small business, to provide a BIO-RAD QXDX AUTODG DDPCR SYSTEM. This contract has a completion date of September 30, 2022 and is part of the Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 program. Government Scientific Source Inc. is a prime contractor that has provided various lab equipment and supplies to federal agencies including the VA,...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 awarded a $338,350 firm fixed price purchase order to Illumina, Inc. of San Diego, California. The contract is for the delivery of a NextSeq 2000 Sequencing System to support the Cleveland VA Medical Center Research Service's role in the VA's national sequencing mission project. According to the original special notice solicitation, this sequencing system is required to maintain data...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration awarded a $337,653.75 firm-fixed price purchase order to Government Scientific Source Inc., a veteran-owned small business, for an Illumina NextSeq 550 sequencing system and a Bio-Rad ddSEQ single-cell isolator. This contract is to support VA research programs and clinical laboratories. The solicitation was issued as a 100% set-aside for veteran-owned small businesses.