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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF AUGUST 03, 2016 FBO #5367
DOCUMENT

65 -- Laboratory - Microbiology Media and Supplies - Attachment

Notice Date

8/1/2016
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

325413 — In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Network Contracting Office;NCO 19;4100 E. Mississippi Avenue, Suite 900;Glendale CO 80246
 

ZIP Code

80246
 

Solicitation Number

VA25916N0409
 

Response Due

8/5/2016
 

Archive Date

10/4/2016
 

Point of Contact

Kurt Tanny
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

This Sources Sought Notice is issued for information and planning purposes only. This is not a solicitation or a request for proposal. An award will not be made on offers received in response to this notice, and it shall not be implied the Government is committed to providing any solicitation or award following this notice. The Government will not pay for any information received in response to this request, nor will the Government compensate a respondent for any costs incurred in developing information provided. Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 19, Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS) Denver VA Hospital is seeking a potential qualified contractor to provide the following: Responding companies shall include any relevant information (specifications, cut sheets, brochures, capability statement, etc.) confirming their ability to meet the service requirements in the Performance Work Statement and supply product with the salient characteristics outlined in this request. In addition to providing all documents necessary to validate the above requirements can be met (or exceeded), interested vendors shall include with their response: "Complete Company Name and Address: "DUNS Number: "CAGE Code: "Applicable NAICS Code and Business Size: "Company Point of Contact oName: oEmail Address: oPhone Number: "Teaming Agreements or Joint Venture Partners (if Large Business): "Delivery lead-time: "Place of Manufacture: Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the U.S. Government to form a binding contract or agreement. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation, or ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. The Government will in no way be bound to this information if any solicitation is issued. MICROBIOLOGY MEDIA, KITS, REAGENTS, and SUPPLIES 1. SCOPE: A five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide a full range/wide array of microbiology media, supplies, identification kits, biochemical reagents for rapid/full identification, ATCC quality control (QC) organism, and disposable supplies related to processing and complete work-up of specimens for microbiology cultures. These supplies, kits, reagents, and media must be delivered on 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, or next business day, in case of a holiday according to the estimated quantities listed on the attached schedule. All media, supplies and peripherals must perform according to specifications and represent a bona-fide need for patient care on behalf of the Denver VA Medical Center (ECHCS), 1055 Clermont Street, Denver, CO 80220. Supplies shall be required for a base year period, and four option years. Media, kits, reagents, and QC organisms are specific for required microbiology testing for patient specimens, and quality control requirement. Supplies shall be delivered to Denver VA Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service. 2. DEFINITION: The price shall include costs covering (a) full spectrum of microbiology media listed, (b) identification kits, (c) biochemical/chromogenic media, (d) rapid identification tests, (e) transport/collection kit, (f) consumables, (h) antigen kit testing, and any other item required for the proper operation of the contractor's supplies and software necessary for data management. (f) ATCC QC organisms, (h) Contractors are required to provide prompt delivery according to the schedule. 3. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: a.Offered media, kits, reagents, and supplies shall be capable of producing accurate and reproducible results. Supplies shall provide accurate result up to the manufacturer's defined guidelines without failures or media, kits or software will be replaced at no additional charge to the DENVER VA MEDICAL CENTER. 1.Offered media, kits, and reagents shall be Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute (CLSI), Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), & FDA approved for patient testing. 2.The contractor shall provide technical standard operating procedure templates required for patient testing for microbiological culture and assays. 3.A technical manual and quality control documents shall be furnished with supplies supplied to VA. 4.Failure to provide a quality media, kits, reagents, antimicrobial susceptibility disks, and supplies may result in review of the contract. 5.The contractor should provide the quality control standards letter at the beginning of year as required by College of American Pathologists (CAP) and CLIA. 6.Notification of backordered media, supplies, and reagents as soon as possible (ASAP) by email or a phone call. 7.Provide a list of a replacement for backordered media without any delay for patient testing. Media should be made available as requested. 8.Required: Refer to appendix 1 for a list of media, kits, reagent, and supplies for estimated quantities of minimum and maximum per year, delivery schedule of minimum and maximum media and supplies. Assigned laboratory staff (Kevin Ibershoff, Patricia Cuddy, Rose Martinez, Marlon Coggins, Neelam Ojha, and/or Diane Svoboda) should be able to call the order for supplies to vendor or place the order on-line for delivery. b.The quality of the media, kits, reagents, and supplies shall be high enough to satisfy proficiency testing standards of the College of American Pathologists (CAP), CLSI, CLIA, FDA and OSHA. 1. With the exception of the specific quality control requirements stated herein, which shall have precedence; credit for failure to provide quality media, kits, reagents, and supplies, and replacement shall be performed and provided in accordance with the terms, conditions, and provision of contactor's existing Federal Supply Service Contract for performance as stated in Subsection III of the VA National Acquisition Center contract requirements Solicitation (RFP 797-FSS-03-0001). 4. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: a.Technical performance based on following criteria: "Wide spectrum/arrays of microbiological media, kits, reagents, biochemical, and QC organisms supplies for bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, virology/PCR, parasitology, serology, transport media, and consumables etc. "Media should meet the performance for: observing defined hemolysis, depth (deep media), freshness, colony morphology, cracks, dehydration, sterility, clear chromogenic observation of colony growth, formulation appropriate to the growth of specific organisms, performance and pH of susceptibility media. "Long expiration of kits, reagents, and antimicrobial disks for susceptibilty. "Peer review information. "Availability & Selection of packaging (option for small & big package as needed) "Long shelf-life at the time of shipment. "Direct delivery from manufacturer, not from the stocked supplies from warehouse to ensure freshness of media/reagents. "Next day delivery of media/supplies to meet the above requirements. b.Replacement of products, without additional charges, when failure of performance is observed. c.Immediate notification when a product is backordered, in-house QC fails, or if there will be any delay in product shipments. 6. TRANSITION PERIOD: The transition period for the awarded contractor to have microbiology media, kits, reagents, and supplies delivered and fully operational shall be within 7 days. APPENDIX 1 Item No.DescriptionEstimated Annual Quantity 001Anaerobic (CDC) LKV Blood Agar 10/PK80 002B Frag Isolation Agar 10/PK9 003Columbia CNA w/5% Sheep Blood 100/PK 21 004BHI Agar w/SB, Chlor, Gent (25ml) 10/PK59 005Blood Agar, 5% Sheep Blood 100/PK162 006Brucella w/5% SB,Hem, Vit K 10/PK150 007Chocolate Agar 100/PK37 008HE Agar (Hektoen Enteric) 10/PK47 009Haemophilus Test Medium (100MM) 10/PK14 010Inhibitory Mold Agar 10/PK2 011MacConkey Agar 100/PK89 012Middlebrook 7H10 Agar (26ml) 10/PK20 013MH Agar (100mm) 10/PK9 014Sab Dex Agar, Emmons (26ml) 10/PK67 015Spectra MRSA 100/PK28 016Strep A Isolation Agar 10/PK69 017TCBS Agar 10/PK9 018Thayer Martin, Imp 10/PK10 019V Agar 10/PK12 020Anaer Reduc LKV/B Frag (BBE) Biplate 10/PK2 021MH Agar w/5% Sheep Blood (150mm) 10/PK16 022Cooked Meat Med w/Hem, Vit K 20/PK5 023Middlebrook 7H11/Mitchison7H11 Sel 10/PK98 024Coagulase Plasma PK/6 (5ml/VL)8 025Nitrocefin Disk 25Disk/VL6 026PYR Disk w/Reagent 50TST/KT20 027Staphaurex KT/120TST20 028MacConkey Broth (5ml) 20/PK36 029Middlebrook 7H9 Broth w/Glyc (2ml) 20/PK2 030Nutrient Agar (slant) 20/PK2 031Sab Dex Broth, 2% (5ml) 20/PK1 032Saline, 0.85% (5ml) 100/PK6 033Thio Med w/Dex,Hem,Vit K (9ml) 20/PK22 034TSA (slant) 100/PK1 035TSB w/15% Glycerol (1.5ml vial) 100/PK4 036Water (5ml) 100/PK5 037LJ Medium (slant) 100/PK7 038Sab Dex Agar, pH 5.6 (slant) 20/PK2 039KF30 CEPHALOTHIN1 040P10 PENICILLIN G1 041DA2 CLINDAMYCIN2 042AZM15 AZITHROMYCIN1 043OP OPTOCHIN (5X50 Discs)2 044NLA - PK/5 AZITHROMYCIN 15mcg 5x501 045SXT DISK1 046CEFTRIAXON (Disk)1 047MEROPENEM (Disk)1 048G. vaginalis ATCC 14018 VL/101 049C. jejunii ATCC 33291 PK/51 050H. influnzae ATCC 49247 PK/51 051E, coli O157:H7 ATCC 43888 PK/51 052ACT l TRANSPORT PK/202 053M4(3ml) PK/723 054Flock Swab, Nylon Micro Tip PK/10001 055Cary-Blair w/Ind (15ml Vial) PK/1210 056Inoc Loop, Calib, Disp 1ul blue PK/96015 057Gram Crystal Violet BTLx5/250ml10 058Gram Decolorizer BTLx5/250ml20 059GRAM IODINE BTLx5/250ML12 060Gram Safranin BTLx5/250ml10 061TB Auramine-Rhodamine T-BTL/250ml6 062TB Potassium Permanganate BTL/250ml8 063TB Kinyoun Carbolfuchsin BTL/250ml5 064TB Decolorizer (Acid Alcohol)3% BTL/250ml4 065TB Decolorizer, Truant-Moore BTL/250ml2 066TB Methylene Blue BTL/250ml7 067Sulfuric Acid (1%) BTL/250ml10 068Campy Selective 10/pk30 069CRYPTO ANTIGN LATRL Flow 50/PK1 070LEUKO EZ-VUE 25/PK1 071MacConkey Agar w/ Ciprofloxacin 1 UG/ml 10/PK1 072BHI Broth w/ Ciprofloxacin 1 UG/ml 20/PK1 073BINAX NOW Legionella Urine Kit20 074ImmunoCard STAT EHEC30 075ImmunoCard STAT Crypto/Giardia40 076ImmunoCard STAT H. pylori30
 

Web Link

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Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA259-16-N-0409 VA259-16-N-0409.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2913850&FileName=VA259-16-N-0409-000.docx)

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Record

SN04203111-W 20160803/160801234555-eb3c53707fb183bc765ebc2f03bbbab6 (fbodaily.com)
 

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