THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION, THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS ONLYThis Sources Sought is for the purpose of identifying firms that can meet the following United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) requirements.The SEA research center has a requirement for testing services, specifically, bacterial shallow shotgun metagenomic analysis for broiler chicken intestinal content, under NAICS 541380, Testing Laboratories and Services. The analysis shall provide ~18 million reads per sample for ~158 chickens and two intestinal regions per chicken, along with 2 control standards for a total 160 samples. Testing shall be completed using a NovaSeq S4 2x150 PE run on Illumina Nextera XT platform.This Sources Sought is not to be considered as a request for quote or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. No entitlement to payme
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