Agilent HaloPlex Target Enrichment kit - custom design for Illumina Highseq2000

General Information
Short Title: Agilent HaloPlex Target Enrichment kit - custom design for Illumina Highseq2000.
Document Type: Presolicitation Notice
Solicitation Number: N02CO52615-78
Posted Date: 6/9/2015
Response Date: 6/24/2015
Classification Code: 6550
NAICS Code: 334516

Contracting Office Address

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 1E140, Rockville, MD 20850, UNITED STATES

Description

National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), plans to procure on a sole source basis Agilent HaloPlex Target Enrichment kit - custom design for Illumina Highseq2000 from Agilent Technologies, 2850 Centerville Road Bu3-2, Wilmington, DE 19808-1610.

This acquisition will be processed in accordance with simplified acquisition procedures as stated in FAR Part 13.106-1(b)(1). The North American Industry Classification System code is 334516 and the business size standard is 500 employees.

Only one award will be made as a result of this solicitation. This will be awarded as a firm fixed price type contract.

Delivery: 6 weeks from date of award.

It has been determined there are no opportunities to acquire green products or services for this procurement.

In order to meet NCI's research goals, the CCR requires a custom design HaloPlex Target Enrichment kit custom design from 501kb-2.5Mb for Illumina Highseq2000. The target enrichment system shall combine the robustness of hybridization with the high specificity and speed of PCR, requiring only 200 ng input DNA. The system shall cover more than 100,000 amplicons per reaction to enable fast and simple analysis of genomic regions of interest for a large number of samples material using low amounts of DNA. Up to 10 amplicons should be designed to each target region to improve coverage and minimize risk or allele drop-out. The system shall support Illumina's family of sequencers. The data set from the NCI lab will be compared to data in other studies that used the Adilent HaloPlex Target Enrichment Kit.

Delivery address:

10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.

This notice is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party, especially small business believes it can meet the above requirement, it may submit a proposal or quote for the Government to consider. The response and any other information furnished must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can perform the requirement. Responses must be received in the contracting office by 1 PM Eastern Time, on June 24, 2015. All responses and questions must be via email to Francisco Mendoza, Contracting Specialist at francisco.mendoza@nih.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. In order to receive an award, contractors must have an active registration in www.sam.gov and have Representations and Certifications filled out. Reference: N02CO52615-78 on all correspondence.