The National Institutes of Health intends to award a Firm-Fixed-Price Purchase Order for a 12-month maintenance and repair service agreement for a Tecan Fluent 780 robot at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center in Bethesda, MD.
Responses are due by 3:00 p.m. EDT on October 16, 2026, and the award is anticipated approximately ten days after the notice date of October 9, 2026.
This is a Presolicitation notice under FAR Part 6.302-1, not a request for competitive quotes, but small businesses may submit a written capability statement.
The work is performed at the place of performance in Bethesda, MD, for the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health.
Responses must be emailed to david.shen@nih.gov.
Term
12 months
Method
Presolicitation
Documents
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Submit a written capability statement demonstrating the ability to perform a 12-month service and repair agreement for a Tecan Fluent 780 robot.
Email the capability statement to david.shen@nih.gov by the deadline.
Be prepared to service and repair a critical instrument used in high-throughput DNA sequencing sample preparation at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center in Bethesda, MD.
Posted Scope of Work
Attachment: Notice of Intent
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The contractor will provide a service agreement to service and repair a Tecan Fluent 780 robot for 12 months. The robot is a critical instrument used in the preparation of samples for the sequencing production process at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC), which performs high-throughput, large-scale DNA sequencing and sequence analysis.
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