# Tissue Processing Equipment

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/36c24726q0452

- Solicitation number: 36C24726Q0452
- Notice type: Special notice (first published as solicitation)
- Status: Closed. Deadline was April 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT
- Department: Department of Veterans Affairs
- Contracting office: 247-Network Contract Office 7 (36C247)
- NAICS: 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Product or service code: 6640 Laboratory Equipment and Supplies
- First posted: April 14, 2026
- Last posted: April 14, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6329e21f01ac481089dfc792457c4236/view

## Description

The Ralph H. Johnson VA Healthcare System Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service needs a replacement tissue processor for the Histology department. The current tissue processor has reached its life expectancy and has recently had a processing failure requiring the recollection of several Veteran specimens.

## Publications

- April 14, 2026: Solicitation, due April 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT. Notice 0d4f2e8f49ac421b84ae5588ee9ac95d. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/0d4f2e8f49ac421b84ae5588ee9ac95d/view
- April 14, 2026: Special notice, due April 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT. Notice 6329e21f01ac481089dfc792457c4236. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6329e21f01ac481089dfc792457c4236/view

## Points of contact

- Contracting Officer, Joseph Locke, joseph.locke@va.gov, 803-979-0338

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