Officer in Charge, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Norfolk, Detachment-Washington, Washington Navy Yard, Bldg. 200, 901 M. Street SE, Washington, DC

70 -- AUTOMATED BLOOD PRODUCT LABELING SYSTEM SOL N00600-96-R-3911 DUE 100396 POC Contract the Bid Room at (202) 433-2920. Fax responses to (202) 433-9569. For additional information contact Carla Backus, Code 201.4H, Contract Specialist, (202) 433-7148. 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 printed 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 practices throughout the world. The new FDA format (15 alpha-numeric donor identifcation 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. A Justification and Approval for only one responsible source has been prepared and approved. A solicitation will not be issued. See Note 22. (0226)

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