ION Chef SMA FY24

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Laboratory of Neurogenetics seeks to award a sole source contract to Life Technologies Corporation for maintenance services for an Ion Chef DNA sequencing system. Services will include remote monitoring, on-site technical support visits, software and hardware updates to support DNA and RNA sequencing experiments. As the system manufacturer, Life Technologies is the sole provider of specialized parts, tools, training and proprietary software updates required to support the Ion Chef. Responses for consideration of this sole source contract are due by November 3, 2023.

There is no set-aside designation for this requirement. As Life Technologies is the proprietary manufacturer of the Ion Chef system, they are effectively the only qualified source for these specialized maintenance services. The pre-solicitation notice does not provide budget ranges or value of the potential award, but indicates the services are to support ongoing research requiring an as-yet unspecified level of usage and time period for the Ion Chef system.