7-Year Microbiology Blood Culture and AST/ID for VISN 19

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION: The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office (NCO) 19 Rocky Mountain Acquisition Center, 6162 S. Willow Drive, Suite 300, Greenwood Village CO 80111 intends to solicit sources to enter into a firm-fixed price Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to provide Cost Per Test (CPT) Automated Microbiological Blood Culture Identification/Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (ID/AST) for the Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service for Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) for two VISN 19 facilities, Oklahoma City VA Health Care System (OKCVAHCS) located at 921 NE 13TH ST, Oklahoma City, OK, 73104 and the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System (EOKVAHCS) located at 1011 Honor Heights Drive, Muskogee, OK, 73104. The Contractor shall provide the equipment, software, consumables, and training to enable the listed facilities to perform the following tests per the test menu at a fixed CPT price: Aerobic blood culture testing Anaerobic blood culture testing Subculture capability Mycobacteria processing (non-blood sources) Gram-positive susceptibility testing (AST) Gram-negative susceptibility testing (AST) Yeast susceptibility testing Gram-positive ID Gram-negative ID Anaerobic ID Neisseria/Haemophilus ID Yeast ID This solicitation is full and open.

The solicitation package will be available for download on or about March 7, 2024 and proposals shall be due 11 days after the issuance of the solicitation, and no later than 9:00 a.m. mountain time. The applicable NAICS code is 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing with a small business size standard of 1000 Employees.

The solicitation reference is 36C25924Q0284 - VISN 19 Cost Per Test (CPT) Automated Microbiological Blood Culture Identification/Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (ID/AST) and should be referenced in all correspondence/ inquiries. The locations for services are stated above. All information for this solicitation will be posted on the Contracting Opportunities (CO) website at www.sam.gov. No hard copies of the solicitation will be provided.

Any amendments to this solicitation will be available at this website and offerors are advised that they are responsible for obtaining amendments to this solicitation at this website prior to the time of responding to the solicitation. This is the pre-solicitation notice only.