Annual preventive care maintenance plan for Illumina NexSeq 1000 Sequencer, Silver Support Plan Description PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE **NOTICE OF INTENT NOI-NIAID-25-2243932 NAICS - 811210 This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for proposal. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with Illumina, Inc. to procure an annual preventive care maintenance plan for Illumina NexSeq 1000 Sequencer, Silver Support Plan, Asset \ VL00674 POP: 10 28 2024 -10 27 2025 The NIAID Microbiome Program is a collaborative effort to explore the metaorganism—the combination of the cells of a host and the host-s microbiota. The program has developed a microbiome sequencing facility with bioinformatics support, a gnotobiotic mouse facility, and a microbiology core that are all tasked with studying the metaorganism. The program has already supported research of over 35 groups across the National Institutes of Health, who study the metaorganism in the context of health, cancer, parasite infection, and many other disease states. To conduct these studies on human and mouse samples, the program uses the Illumina platform for next generation sequencing, C57BL 6 germ free mice and other in their own facility, and various microbiological techniques. The Illumina NextSeq 1000 benchtop sequencer is the primary piece of equipment for performing the necessary 16S and 18S sequencing and metagenomic analyses. A service contract of this machine is required for general function and repair. ONLY Illumina manufactured this equipment and the parts needed for potential repair and therefore ONLY can perform the preventive maintenance of the NexSeq benchtop sequencer. The contract shall include the following NexSeq 1000 Silver Support Plan Services: Full coverage for parts, labor, and travel; Reagent replacement upon HW failures; 1 PM; Remote Technical Support 18x5; 2 business day on-site response target; control SW and HW updates; on... HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF | NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 6011 EXECUTIVE BLVD., SUITE 503L, BETHESDA , MD 20892, USA Primary Point of Contact: Lynda Cole, lynda.cole@nih.gov, Phone Number 3014027220 dana.monroe@nih.gov Tender Notice International Competitive Bidding NOI-NIAID-25-2243932 United States of America GT-108806872