Notice of Intent to Sole Source – Illumina

Closed Special Notice Posted

Solicitation number
26-005169
Agency
Responses due
Set-aside
No set-aside

Opportunity facts

Place of performance
Maryland 20892, United States

Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .

About this opportunity

The National Institutes of Health intends to award a firm fixed price sole source purchase order to Illumina, Inc. for an Illumina MiSeq i100 System at the NIH Clinical Center's Department of Transfusion Medicine, with comments due by May 14, 2026 at 10 A.M. EST.

The acquisition is being conducted under FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures, with the contract value below the simplified acquisition threshold. NIH has determined that Illumina is the sole source reasonably available because the equipment is manufactured and serviced by the vendor, and no other commercially available system provides the same combination of performance, workflow integration, and cost efficiency for the low- to moderate-throughput sequencing required to support clinical research, optimization, and validation of diagnostic assays for hepatitis viruses and transfusion-transmitted pathogens. The base year period of performance runs from June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2027.

This is a notice of intent only; no solicitation document will be issued and no quotations will be requested. Interested parties may identify their capabilities in response to this posting by submitting comments or capability statements to Gregory Noland, Contract Specialist, at gregory.noland@nih.gov. The government reserves the discretion to proceed non-competitively or otherwise based on responses received.

Notice text

This is a notice of intent, not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to award afixed price purchase order to Illumina, Inc., located at 5200 Illumina Way, San Diego, CA 92122, on a firm fixed price sole source award basis to provide the Illumina MiSeq i100 System at the National Institutes of Health, Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM).

The instrument is manufactured and serviced by the vendor. The equipment is required by the original manufacturer (Illumina, Inc.) and it is therefore deemed to be in the Government’s best interest that this item is procured from the manufactuer.

This acquisition is being conducted using policies unique tothe Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 – SimplifiedAcquisition Procedures, Subpart 13.106-1(b)(1), For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold(SAT), contracting officers may solicit from one source if thecontracting officer determines that the circumstance of thecontract action deem only one source reasonably available. Contracts awarded using FAR Part 13-Simplified AcquisitionProcedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6-Competition Requirements.

Interested parties may identify their interest and capabili-ties in response to this posting. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed requirementbased upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Comments to this announcement, referencing this postingnumber, may be submitted to the NIH, Clinical Center, Office of Purchasing and Contracts, prior to the closing datespecified in this announcement, to the attention of Gregory Noland, Contract Specialist via email to gregory.noland@nih.gov by May 14, 2026 at 10 A.M. EST.

Files

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26-005169 - Notice of Intent to Sole Source.docx DOCX document

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