# Benchmark Ultra Plus IHC Slide Stainer SEPG# 364889 (VA-24-00010154) (VA-24-00066536)

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/36c24124q0425

- Solicitation number: 36C24124Q0425
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Awarded to Roche Diagnostics Corporation
- Department: Department of Veterans Affairs
- Contracting office: 241-Network Contract Office 01 (36C241)
- NAICS: 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Product or service code: 6640 Laboratory Equipment and Supplies
- County: Suffolk County (FIPS 25025). https://abierto.us/counties/suffolk-county-ma-25025
- First posted: April 3, 2024
- Last posted: April 3, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6c5885c4b82245bc8f538ed8645eeebf/view

## Description

Intent to Sole Source This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract and is not a request for quotes. The West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center intends to award a sole source firm-fixed price contract for a 1 Year period of performance for Benchmark ULTRA PLUS Immunohistochemical Stainer from Roche Diagnostics. The above items are necessary to produce quality-stained slides which are evaluated by pathologists and aid in making patient diagnosis.

This is an immediate need for the Histology section of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be accepted. However, any vendor that believes it can meet these requirements may give written notification to the Contracting Officer by April 5, 2024 4:30pm (EST).

Supporting evidence must be furnished in sufficient detail, to demonstrate the ability to comply with the above requirements. Information can be sent to the Contract Specialist via e-mail at Sarah.Ballentine@va.gov. Responses received will be evaluated; however, a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

If no responses are received, Network Contracting Office 1 will proceed with the sole source negotiation with Roche Diagnostics as noted herein. Costs associated with the preparation and submission of information and/or any follow-up information requests are the responsibility of the vendor and these costs will not be reimbursed by the Government. Verbal and telephonic inquiries will not be accepted. This notice of intent to sole source with justification satisfies the public posting requirements of FAR 13.501. Intent to Sole Source to Roche Diagnostics for the West Roxbury VAMC Please see Sole Source Justification

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Roche Diagnostics Corporation (UEI JDMDFEZBYH36)
- Contract: 36C24124P0472, purchase order
- Obligated: $121,000.00
- Competition: Not Competed, 1 offers received
- Link: solicitation number 36C24124Q0425 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office 36C241 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C24124P0472_3600_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- April 3, 2024: Special notice, due April 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM EDT. Notice 6c5885c4b82245bc8f538ed8645eeebf. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6c5885c4b82245bc8f538ed8645eeebf/view

## Points of contact

- Sarah Ballentine, Contract Specialist, Sarah.Ballentine@va.gov, 802-295-9363 X-5725

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