Summary
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (via the NASA Shared Services Center) issued a solicitation for an annual maintenance and repair plan for an Illumina NextSeq 1000 to support the Open Science Data Repository — Space Microbial Culture Collection at NASA Ames. The contract requires an Illumina NextSeq 1000 Bronze Support Plan (parts, labor, travel), remote technical support (8x5 with a 4-hour response), a target 3-business-day on-site response, software/hardware updates, on-site applications support, and remote monitoring. The period of performance runs from July 9, 2026 to July 8, 2027 and quotations are due July 7, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. EDT (see official posting).