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Special notice

Pre-Solicitation Notice with Intent to Sole Source for Academic Animal Lab & Core Services

36C24E25Q0070

Department of Veterans Affairs, Rpo East. Veterinary Services.

Awarded

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

$59,568.00 obligated so far on USAspending

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This one was awarded in 2025

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Description

As published on SAM.gov.

Pre-Solicitation Notice for the notice of intent to award a sole source contract. This is not a solicitation.

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Research and Development (R&D), Regional Procurement Office (RPO) East in Pittsburgh, PA intends to negotiate on a sole source basis for a one (1) year base period to include four (4) option years with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) to obtain academic animal core services for an ongoing research study for Oklahoma City VA Medical Center (OKC VAMC). OMRF is the only known vendor that can provide the specialized services required.

OKC VAMC has been utilizing OMRF s academic animal core services through a previous federal contract for an ongoing research project and has a continuing need for these services. OMRF is the only known local, accredited academic animal core facility that maintains the bacteria-free conditions and specialized instrumentation at their facility that must be used by the ongoing research study. Since the intent is to procure this on a sole source basis, no solicitation will be posted to Contract Opportunities.

The applicable NAICS code is 541940 with a $13.5M size standard. The PSC is R416. The authority for this action is RFO FAR 6.103-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. However, any responsible source who can provide an equivalent service with the features described above, may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 11:00 AM, EDT.

Interest/capability statements which specifically detail how your service meets the requirement may be sent to Shannon Hukriede at shannon.hukriede@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

The contract, on USAspending

Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.

UEI
NGCNCJ1X6XA4
CAGE
4X200
Vendor location
Oklahoma City, OK
Contract
36C24E25P0063, purchase order
Obligated
$59,568.00, potential $155,490
Actions
3 between September 19, 2025 and September 17, 2026
Competition
Not Competed, 1 offer received
Set-aside reported
No Set Aside Used.
Described as
Animal Per Diem Services
Match
solicitation number 36C24E25Q0070 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office 36C24E (high confidence)

Publications

Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.

  1. September 1, 2025

    Special notice

    Due September 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT. SAM.gov, notice 62182eefe71843c3bc3a0ba2d1ce7eb2

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