Contract · Federal
D--DRAGEN-GATK Licenses & Support at FRCE & Biowulf
- Agency
- INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE / DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
- Location
- HERNDON, VA
- Amount
- Amount not listed
- Posted
- Jul 20, 2026
- Set-aside
- None (open competition)
- NAICS code
- 513210 - Software Publishers look up NAICS codes
- PSC code
- DA10 - IT and Telecommunications (general category)
Timeline
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Posted
Jul 20, 2026
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Status
Closing soon
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What this contract is for
- Agency
- INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE / DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
- Location
- HERNDON, VA
- NAICS
- 513210 - Software Publishers
- Scope
- Federal
(4)(i) Description The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), has a requirement for annual licenses and technical support for Illumina DRAGEN Server processors to support the Data Management and Analysis Program (DMAP) for computational biology, sequencing computations, and bio-analysis.
The Government requires the continued use of Illumina's proprietary Dynamic Read Analysis for Genomics (DRAGEN) processor, which is combined with the Broad Institute's Genomic Analysis Tool Kit (GATK) in a DRAGEN-GATK package, for the Whole Genome and Whole Exome Data Processing Workflow at NCI.
DRAGEN-GATK will be deployed at NCI's high-performance computing locations at Biowulf (Bethesda, MD) and Fredrick Research Computing Environment (FRCE) (Frederick, MD), with access made available to users via NIH Integrated Data Analysis Platform (NIDAP) and directly on the batch clusters via command line, with jobs managed via Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM).
The requirement consists of: 1.
Two (2) annual software licenses for LVL 2 DRAGEN Server processors at 250,000 GB throughput (one for FRCE, one for Biowulf); and 2.
Two (2) annual DRAGEN Server Advance Exchange Support Plans with Remote Technical Support 8x5 (one for FRCE, one for Biowulf).
Place of performance: 1.
FRCE: 8560 Progress Drive, Frederick, MD 21701 2.
Biowulf: 6555 Rock Spring Dr, Bethesda, MD 20817 Period of performance: 9/29/2026 through 9/28/2027.
This is a brand name acquisition for licenses and support associated with Illumina, Inc.
DRAGEN Server processors.
Offerors must be an authorized reseller of Illumina, Inc. to submit an acceptable offer on the resulting Requ...
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