JESS SIMPLE WESTERN AUTOMATED SYSTEM

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE: The Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 6 intends to award a sole source, firm-fixed-price contract to PROTEINSIMPLE for the Jess Western Automated System for the Salem, VA Medical Center, Salem VA in accordance with Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) 12.201-1, Simplified Procedures. Justification for this sole source procurement is in accordance with Revolutionary FAR Overhale (RFO) 6.103.1 soliciting from a single source. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. No solicitation documents are available, and telephone requests will not be accepted. However, any business that believes it can meet these requirements and possesses relevant past-experience and expertise may give written notice. Supporting evidence must be furnished in sufficient detail to demonstrate the ability to comply with the above requirement. Responses will be considered by the Government, however, a determination by the Government not to compete with the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. NAICS Code 334516- Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing with a size standard of 1,000 Employees. Description: Jess Automated Western Blot System: The Jess system is an automated capillary electrophoresis based immunoassay platform that modernizes traditional Western blotting by combining protein size separation with high sensitivity immunodetection in a fully hands off workflow  Responses received by 9:00 am EST on 03 November 2026 will be considered by the Government. Inquiries shall be emailed to James.risbon@va.gov No telephone requests will be accepted. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES, and no Solicitation will be issued. The justification for this noncompetitive solicitation is due to ProteinSimple being the sole company capable of providing a suite of cryoablation services which includes technicians, equipment, and the required disposables. Market research has determined that this service is highly specialized and only available from a single source. The Government intends to award the contract with an effective date of 06 November 2026 to ProteinSimple, 614 McKinley Place NE Minneapolis, MN 55413.