The National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) intends to award two Purchase Orders to Illumina, Inc. at 5200 Illumina Way, San Diego, CA 92122-4616, for the purchase of Illumina 850K DNA methylation array reagents to be used at NIEHS, Research Triangle Park campus. The North American industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 424210 and the business size standard is 250 employees. NO SOLICITATION OR REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) IS AVAILABLE. It has been determined that Illumina, Inc. is the only known responsible source capable of providing the required supplies and no other supplies will satisfy the agency's requirements. The purpose of this Purchase Order is to procure the Illumina 850K DNA methylation array reagents to use with the Illumina scanners. The array reagents must be capable of measuring methylation of specific set of 850,000 cytosines in human genome and only Illumina, Inc. makes the reagents that are compatible with the Illumina instruments used at the NIEHS campus. Continued uses of these reagents will maintain consistency required for ongoing experiments and from previous data obtain from ongoing studies. This notice of intent is not a solicitation or request for quotes. Notwithstanding, any firm that believes it is capable of meeting NIEHS' requirement, as stated herein, may submit their corporate capabilities, which, if received by the response date of this announcement, may be considered. Responses to this posting must be in writing and shall be emailed to Teresa McCall at
[email protected] and are due by 4:30PM ET on August 11, 2016. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future.