This federal contract award to Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, is for the purchase of reagents for the company's proprietary RSII and Sequel DNA sequencing systems. The $76,662 firm-fixed price contract was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, on August 31, 2016, with a completion date of August 30, 2017.
Pacific Biosciences holds two relevant Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicles - a $13.5 million IDIQ with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service, and a $1 million IDIQ with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - demonstrating the ongoing demand for the company's specialized long-read sequencing technology across federal agricultural and biomedical research programs. This specific award did not use a set-aside designation.