On December 11, the Department of Health and Human Services posted the following small business sources sought notice. Responses are due via email no later than 4:00pm Eastern on December 21.
The Laboratory of Neurogenetics (LNG) is contained within the Intramural Research Program (IRP) at the National Institute of Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The LNG is driven by the mission to to identify the causative genes for Parkinson’s Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. The LNG has been a key laboratory in furthering the basic understanding of neurodegenerative disease progression from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, dementia and stroke. LNG is currently collecting DNA from families and individuals with a history of neurodegenerative diseases.
This Small Business Sources Sought notice seeks to determine eligible sources with the capability to provide the required services and delivery requirement described in this announcement. The LNG has a potential requirement for a contractor to provide support by performing whole genome sequencing of 4000 DNA samples from Parkinson’s disease patients and a neurologically normal control group with the goal to analyze the sequencing data of purified gDNA samples from a family of individuals with a history of Parkinson’s Disease.
The purpose of this potential requirement is to obtain contractor support for performing sequencing services of human genomic DNA samples. The sequencing shall be performed on an Illumina brand X Ten Sequencing System that consists of a set of 10 (ten) HiSeq X ultra-high-throughput instruments. The Illumina X Ten Sequencing System delivers the most powerful sequencing platform known to currently exist on the market.
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