SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- purchase of laboratory testing services
- Notice Date
- 10/13/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 621511
— Medical Laboratories
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;VAMC White River Junction;215 North Main Street;White River Junction VT 05009
- ZIP Code
- 05009
- Solicitation Number
- VA-241-09-RP-0364
- Archive Date
- 11/12/2009
- Point of Contact
- Woodrow CosseyContracting Specialist
- E-Mail Address
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Contracting Specialist
(woodrow.cossey@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center, 215 North Main St., White River Junction, VT 05009-0001, intends to negotiate a sole source procurement for the Contractor to provide laboratory, clinical and pathology testing services to the Department of Veterans Affairs at White River Junction, VT. Such services shall include, but not be limited to, the following: 1.Contractor will provide laboratory testing services pursuant to a pre-determined price list (fee schedule) agreeable to the VA for samples delivered to it by the VA. 2.Contractor will provide an agreed upon testing service manual, acceptable to the VA, which includes test descriptions, CPT codes, handling and storage requirements, maximum turnaround times, assay schedule and method, etc. 3.Contractor will have the following accreditations: CAP, CLIA, and the director shall be a licensed American Board of pathology certified pathologist. 4.Contractor will comply with VA and Federal HIPPA rules and regulations. 5.Contractor shall insure procedures are current, acceptable, accurate and precise, with quality control acceptable to the VA, and shall give prior notice to the VA of any changes in important components of an assay, and the efficacy of the test must remain unchanged or be improved. 6.Contractor shall insure that all employees have appropriate and current licenses, and meet qualifications required by CLIA '88 guidelines. 7.Contractor shall provide results promptly to VA, and in a manner and timetable acceptable to the VA, and to no other person or entity. 8.Results will be reported to the VA twice per day, and STAT results shall be reported immediately after the test is performed, and shall contain information designated by and acceptable to the VA. 9.Contractor shall store specimens a minimum of seven days. 10.Contractor's laboratory shall be geographically proximate to this VA's location in order that transportation of samples and results be made both timely and at an acceptably low cost. 11.Tests conducted by Contractor shall at a minimum be those listed below, together with such other and additional tests as may be required by the VA from time to time: CPTTest Description 88230Tissue Culture Stimulated Blood 1 88237Tissue Culture BM/Unstim 88280Addt'l Karyotype BM Unstim 88285Addt'l Cells BM/Unstim 88273FISH Microdeletion Analysis 88275FISH Chromosome Analysis 88184Flow Cytometry, 1st marker 88185Flow Cytometry, each add'l 88264Chromosone Analysis BM 86022HLA/Platelet Ab Screening ELIS I 86022Drug/PLT Results 88180Immunophenotyping,Flow 88305Gross & Micro level IV 88313Spec.Stain, Grp2 other 88319Histochem, Muscle/Enzy 88342Immunohistochenistry,AP 88321TC Consultation Prepared Slides 86146Beta-2 Glycoprotein I 87015Conc. for Infectious Agents 83970Parathyroid Hormone, IRMA 87324C.Diff Toxin Assay 85520Heparin Assay 85379D-Dimer 85307APC Resistance 82055Ethyl Alcohol, Blood 85300Antithrombim III Assay 85025CBC 85049Platelet Count 82310Calcium 85670Thrombin Time 85240Factor 8 Assay 85730PTT 85303Protein C Assay 85306Protein S Assay 82805Cooximetry Panel 85384Fibrinogen 85610Prothrombin Time 82003Acetominophen 85732Circulating Anticoagulant 85597Lupus Anticoagulant 84153PSA 83605L-Lactate 80200Tobramycin Random 87086Urine Culture 87116Mycobaterium(AFB)Culture 86403Cryptococcal Antigen 83891DNA Isolation-Complex 83892Digestion 83894Separation (Electro.) 85540Leukocyte Alkaline 82803Arterial Blood Gases 80176Lidocaine 85246Von Willebrand Factor Ag 85245Von Willebrand Factor Activity 87324C. Difficile Toxin A/B 87301C. Difficile Toxin Antigen 84484Troponin T This announcement is not a request for competitive quotations. Telephone inquiries will not be honored; however, interested parties may submit responses to this announcement and literature detailing how their services meet the VA requirements to the Contracting Officer. Responses received on or before November 9, 2009, will be considered. A determination not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice will be solely at the discretion of the government.
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