DNA Sequencing Svc, Fayetteville, AR

THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION, THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS ONLY

This Sources Sought is for the purpose of identifying firms that can meet the following United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) requirements.

The SEA research center has a requirement for testing services, specifically, bacterial shallow shotgun metagenomic analysis for broiler chicken intestinal content, under NAICS 541380, Testing Laboratories and Services. The analysis shall provide ~18 million reads per sample for ~158 chickens and two intestinal regions per chicken, along with 2 control standards for a total 160 samples. Testing shall be completed using a NovaSeq S4 2x150 PE run on Illumina Nextera XT platform.

This Sources Sought is not to be considered as a request for quote or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of the contractor submission to this Sources Sought or the Government's use of such information. The Government reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any contractor's input resulting from this RFI. No contract will be awarded as a result of this announcement. Data submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned.

INSTRUCTION FOR SUBMISSION:

After review of the attached documentation, interested parties may submit a response in an electronic format only via email to osvaldo.rodriguez@usda.gov no later than November 18, 2024 10:00 AM ET.

Electronic files should be in Microsoft Office Word or PDF format. All information should be UNCLASSIFIED material only.

Respondents should include as part of their submission:

1. Capabilities statement.
2. GSA Number if applicable
3. DUNS Number
4. Firm Name
5. Firm Address
6. Business size, SDVOSB, HUBZone, or Woman owned status, as validated via the System for Award Administration (SAM). All offers must register on the SAM located at http://www.SAM.gov
7. Firm’s point of contact, phone and email address.
8. Past work experience. If you have experience working with other Federal Agencies and/or commercial businesses of similar size and scope, please include agency and/or business name contract number (if applicable), amount and type of contract (e.g. FFP, T&M, Labor hour etc).

Any proprietary information must be marked as such, the RFI information should not exceed a total of 10 one-sided 8 1/2x11 pages, with one-inch margins, and font no smaller than 12 point.