Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Contracting Office (90C), Hampton, VA 23667

Q -- LABORATORY REFERENCE TESTING SERVICES SOL 590-01-96 DUE 090796 POC Contact Point, Michale Weaver, (804)728-3114, Contracting Officer, Michale Weaver, (804)728-3114 Perform Laboratory Reference Testing services for a joint VA/DOD/Tri-Care contracting effort. The following facilities are participating in the effort: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Hampton, Salem, and Richmond, Virginia and Department of Defence Medical Centers: Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth VA; 1st Medical Group/SGSAL, Langley Air Force Base, VA; McDonald Army Community Hospital, Ft. Eustis, VA; 4th Medical Group, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, NC; Naval Hospital, Cherry Point, NC; and Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, NC. Contractor to furnish all supplies and services necessary to provide laboratory testing to include pickup and transport of specimens at numerous locations, detailed testing reports, printing of reports via contractor provided printer in VA and DOD laboratories. Contract period will be October 1, 1995 through September 30, 1996 with four one-year option periods. The contract will be awarded to a single prime contrator as a firm fixed price requirements contract. Laboratory must be CAP and CDC accredited and must have all licenses, permits, accreditations and certificates required by law. Lab director must be licensed physician or licensed bioanalyst. Offers will be evaluated based on the following criteria: (1) Resources, including personnel, equipment, fiscal capability and company stability; (2) Quality assurance systems; (3) Services available with respect to turnaround time of test results, published commercial fee schedule, emergency (STAT) service capability; percentage of test types listed in solicitation included in proposal, operational system including general management policies, methods of testing and reporting test results; specimen handling policies, equipment maintenance policies; information and data handling policies, equipment maintenance policies; information and data handling policies; and printing of reports; (4) results of VA inspections, and results of processing unknown specimens; (5) past performance; and (6) cost. Contract award will be based on a scoring system recognizing the above criteria for the tests listed in the Request for Proposal. Solicitation documents will be available on or about August 8, 1995. Requests for solicitation packages must be in writing. Requests can be faxed to (804) 728-3132. TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Send requests to Contracting Office (90C), Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bldg. 27, Room 108, Hampton, VA 23667. Offers due at the VA Medical Center, Hampton, Virginia no later than 4:00 p.m. local time on September 7, 1995. (0200)

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