Sole Source Notice for Illumina Equipment Service Maintenance

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS), Plant Germplasm Quarantine Program (PGQP) in Beltsville, MD intends to award a sole source Purchase Order to Illumina, Inc. located in San Diego, CA for a NextSeq Gold Support Plan to cover one year of full coverage service maintenance on an Illumina NextSeq 500 DNA sequencer system. This purchase will be conducted under the authority of FAR 13.106(b)(1)(i). Illumina is the equipment manufacturer and the only authorized source for the purchase of a NextSeq service maintenance plan that includes full coverage for parts, labor, and travel. In addition, the service covers remote technical support, next business day onsite response, on-site applications support, discounts on advanced training and remote monitoring. The Illumina sequencing equipment used by PGQP ensures the success of our HTS experiments to detect foreign pathogens in plants imported into the United States and thus helps PGQP protect U.S. agriculture from the introduction of foreign pathogens. The Illumina Catalog # is: # 20020009 The anticipated Purchase Order value is $47,333.76. This notice is for informational purposes only. No formal solicitation will be issued. Any questions or inquiries or statements of equivalent capabilities must be e-mailed to the Contracting Specialist [email protected] as the point of contact in this notice by 3:00pm central time on April 30, 2020.