Purchase Order N3239823P0320

The U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery awarded a $57,738.56 firm fixed-price purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation (doing business as Thermo Fisher Scientific) for assurance maintenance service on a 7500 FAST DX real-time PCR system. The contract was awarded on April 27, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of April 27, 2027, and will be performed in Silver Spring, Maryland. No set-aside designation was applied to this procurement. Life Technologies Corporation, headquartered in Carlsbad, California, is a leading supplier of scientific instruments, reagents, and consumables to federal agencies and maintains an extensive portfolio of service and maintenance contracts across the Department of Defense and other government entities.

The contract award includes preventative maintenance, repair services, parts replacement, and technical support for the ABI 7500 FAST DX genetic analyzer, a sophisticated real-time PCR platform widely used in federal biomedical research and diagnostics. This purchase order reflects the Navy's ongoing need to maintain critical laboratory instrumentation at its medical facilities. Life Technologies has established itself as a cornerstone supplier of biotechnology infrastructure to federal agencies, with similar maintenance agreements across the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, supporting the government's research, forensic analysis, and healthcare missions.