Quotations Invited
Post date: Aug 19, 2019 11:16:11 AM
Sub: Tenders invited for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) service
Competitive Tenders are invited from service providers for carrying out Next Generation Sequencing work as shown in Annexure. Tenders should specifically show the charges, taxes, forwarding charges and terms of delivery separately. Evaluation will be based on total amount
Validity of the offer and the time required for effecting the sequencing work after placing the order should also be mentioned in the Tender.
Successful bidder has to complete the work within the stipulated time failing which the order will be treated as cancelled without any further intimation. You are requested to quote the reference number and date of this letter in all your correspondence.
Terms and Conditions
Each bidder shall submit only one Tender
Fax/email bids shall not be accepted.
Late/Delayed and tenders shall not be opened.
Wrongly referenced / enclosed Tenders and Unsigned (wherever signature required) bids will be rejected summarily
The companies participating should provide the Installation certificate for PacBio in their facility in India
The cost should be mentioned separately for sequencing using different platforms and bioinformatics analysis
Payment conditions: 100% payment on receipt of the results as per specifications.
The sample should not be sent outside India for sequencing.
Delivery: To be made available to this Institute in soft copies and hard disc.
Annexure
Tenders are invited from firms providing RNA sequencing services with proven track record of RNA sequencing and de novoassembly using next generation sequencing platforms for undertaking the De novo RNA Sequencing of Carnivorous plants using pair libraries.
Specifications for sequencing
Whole Genome Sequencing and analysis of Carnivorous plants (3) using Illumina HiSeqX platforms
Primary Bioinformatics analysis should include Base Calling, Filtering, Trimming
Secondary Bioinformatics analysis should include Error correction and Denovo Assembly using CLR reads, Functional Annotation of the reads based on our pipeline.
The final report should contains Statistics of raw reads, Raw data QC, Statistics of clean and filtered reads, Statistics after error correction, Denovo assembly and Hybrid assembly
All interested service providers are requested to send their Tender in sealed envelope super scribing “Tender No. DCB/ADMIN” for Next Generation Sequencing Work” to “The Head, Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Trivandrum, Kerala, India- 695581” on or before 5pm on 14-09-2019. The received Tenderswill be opened on the next working day at 10am.