The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) - Vicksburg, MS intends to issue a sole source award to Global Biologics for genetic library construction services. Global Biologics is the only source that can provide these services that can meet the full extent of the requirement which include the touchless total preparation (TTP) system that uses methodology protected under a pending patent which reduces downstream variability during genetic library constructions. The use of the Global Biologics pending patent processes will virtually eliminate downstream variation and will provide valid data that can be used to accurately determine genomic effects from chemical stressors. Using other genomic library preparation and sequencing services will result in downstream variation of data because of manual techniques used during library preparation. These variations in data can cause invalid results in downstream processing which could lead to under or over reporting of genomic effects due to chemical stressors. The service provider must utilize touchless robotic sample preparation methods and the sequencing shall be performed using an Illumina HiSeq instrument. The applicable North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) code that this work falls under is 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), with a size standard of 1,000 employees. This notice of intent is for information purposes only. This notice is not a request for competitive quotes or proposals. A solicitation will not be issued. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. The information submitted must be provided in sufficient detail to demonstrate the vendor's ability to fulfill this requirement. The contractor must also provide a description of their past experience in fulfilling requirements which are the same or similar to this requirement and references for each. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Responses to this requirement may be submitted to Melissa Keen at
[email protected]. The solicitation number shall be included in the subject line of the e-mail submission. Responses must be received no later than 5 days from the posted date of this notice.