This is a $99,996.96 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to Illumina, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of genomic sequencing and analysis products. The contract is for the delivery of Illumina's RNA Prep with Enrichment kits, MiSeq reagent kits, respiratory virus oligo panels, and DNA/RNA universal dual (UD) indexes to support genomic sequencing and analysis requirements at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, California.
The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), with no set-aside designations. Illumina holds an Indefinite Delivery Contract worth up to $3.3 million with the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to provide sequencing systems, reagents, and related products and services in support of the Naval Medical Research Center's biological defense research initiatives. This specific award appears to be a delivery order issued under that larger contract vehicle.