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70 -- PROCURMENT OF AN AUTOMATED BLOOD PRODUCT LABELING SYSTEM SOL N00600-95-R-2776 DUE 072195 POC Contact the Bid Room at (202) 433-2920. Fax responses to (202) 433-9569. For additional information contact Doanh Van, Code PB2E, Contract Specialist, (202) 433-5055. Contracting Officer: Roscoe W. Crawford, (202) 433-5387. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk Detachment, Washington intends to negotiate a sole source contract with Digi-Trax to procure an automated blood product labeling system (ABPLS). The ABPLS is a microcomputer, thermal printer based ''print-on-demand'' automated turnkey blood labeling system that is fully operational. The ABPLS shall produce bar coded, eye readable full face blood product labels, donor identification set labels and donor identification cards in compliance with the new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) 128 format. The ISBT standardizes blood bank labels, bags, instruments, and pratices throughout the world. The new FDA format (15 alpha-numeric donor identification numbers which are facility/country and year specific, and use of bar code 128) will be required for all blood product manufacturing facilities by 1997 in the United States and by 1996 for the European sites. Procurement and installation must be a complete turnkey system and fully operational and to include: hardware, software, installation, and training. No telephone request for solicitation will be considered. See Note 22 (0157)

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