Notice of Intent to negotiate sole source contract with Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF
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Special Notice: FD-2026-358 NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southeast Fisheries Science Center, intends to award, on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with Texas A&M University Corpus Christi of Corpus Christi, Texas to procure the following: The focus of this requirement is the efficient discovery of markers for accurate kinship assignment requires a high-quality genome, which does not currently exist for the sandbar shark. To develop a high-quality reference genome, high-coverage DNA sequencing of a single male of each species will be performed. High molecular weight DNA will be extracted from heart tissue, and a combination of DNA sequenc...