66--Next-generation Nucleic Acid Sequencer

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting market research to determine potential vendors to supply a benchtop next-generation sequencer to the EPA Region 10 Laboratory in Port Orchard, WA. The system must be capable of quickly and efficiently providing highly accurate, comprehensive, and reliable same-day results with a runtime of as little as 4 hours. Interested vendors must provide company information, including a point of contact, business size standard, and socio-economic category, as well as equipment specification documents that clearly demonstrate the system meets all the required specifications. • The system must integrate sequencing by synthesis technology with primary and secondary analysis. • The system must be capable of providing highly accurate, comprehensive, and reliable same-day results. • The system must have a runtime of as little as 4 hours. • Vendors must provide equipment specification documents that clearly demonstrate the system meets all the required specifications.