Notice of Intent to Sole Source Becton, Dickinson and Company

This is a notice of intent, not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested. This procurement is for BD Rhapsody HT Xpress Package, BD Rhapsody 8-Lane Cartridge, BD Rhapsody Tagmentation and Supplemental Reagents Kit, BD Rhapsody Multiomic ATAC-Seq Amplification Kit and Rhapsody Scanner Upgrade Kit. These kits provide the necessary reagents for the preparation of single cell mRNA and ATAC-Seq libraries simultaneously with the BD Rhapsody Single-Cell Analysis system to generate multiomic analysis of open chromatin accessibility and transcriptome of single cells in one experiment. BD Biosciences is the only vendor that provides high quality reagents and compatible with its (BD) Rhapsody single-cell analysis system that we have in