B.2 CDC-Class-JA-Final.pdf

This document outlines a fixed price, sole source award notice for urgent COVID-19 genomic sequencing and metadata reporting services. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded contract 75D30121C10659 to MAKO Medical Laboratories LLC on May 4, 2021 for $23.4 million. Under the terms of the contract, the contractor will conduct large-scale viral genomic surveillance of COVID-19 samples from 43 states to provide baseline information for national and state-level public health responses. Specifically, the contractor will sequence a random set of COVID-19 samples from across the states to define important changes in virus transmission, identify unusual or emerging variants, and improve decision-making with more robust laboratory data.