Notice of Award: 75N91020P00699

This fixed-price purchase order was awarded using other than full and open procedures, in accordance with FAR 6.302-1 and FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i). Onle the original equipment manufacturer (OEM), Illumina, was found to be capable of providing the required services. The equipment is manufactured by Illumina, Inc. Illumina is the only known service provider for the scientific equipment to be serviced under the contract. The equipment is highly specialized and complicated, integrating many proprietary technologies. Illumina is the only provider of service by factory trained engineers, and the only provider of OEM replacement parts. It is critical for the research community that the equipment mentioned above is calibrated accurately and maintained according to the manufacturer's specifications. Any deviation from the specifications could compromise countless hours of work, distort and destroy the integrity of information and/or compromise further studies and significantly delay the laboratory's throughput. The software supplied with this equipment is proprietary, and updates and patches are solely available through Illumina. Illumina has unlimited access to parts and technical support both of which are of a proprietary nature. A special notice was issued on the governmentwide point-of-entry (GPE), beta.SAM.gov, on 23 June 2020. Potential offerors were invited to submit capabilities statements or other documentation demonstrating their capability to satisfy this requirement. The Government did not receive any responses for this notice. The NCI could not identify any other potential sources for this requirement. Thus, an purchase order was issued on a sole-source basis to Illumina, inc.