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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 29, 2006 FBO #1798
SOURCES SOUGHT

65 -- 65 -- Trisodium Citrate

Notice Date

4/24/2006
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

Contracting Office

Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Contracting Officer, (04A-H), 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206
 

ZIP Code

15206
 

Solicitation Number

244-06-01382
 

Response Due

5/9/2006
 

Archive Date

12/3/2006
 

Point of Contact

Point of Contact - Cassandra Craven, Contract Specialist, Ph: (412) 365-5437, Fx:(412) 365-5444, Contracting Officer - Cassandra Craven, Contract Specialist, Ph:(412) 365-5437, Fx:(412) 365-5444
 

E-Mail Address

Cassandra Craven
(cassandra.craven@med.va.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Central Admixture Pharmacy Services, Inc., Corporate Office, 2525 McGaw Avenue, Irvine, CA 92614, for trisodium citrate for continious renal replacement therapy. The vendor must make specialty compound IV admixtures per VAPHS specifications on a per order basis. These compound solutions that are made per individual order are only available through Central Admixture Pharmacy, Inc. VAPHS requires a 0% tolerance error rate for these compounded IV admixtures. The VAPHS requires a vendor who is fully compliant with new USP Chaper 797 standards for compounding "high-risk" sterile products. The vendor must be FDA approved to produce trisodium citrate solution. The vendor must meet or exceed all applicable JCAHO guidelines. The vendor will: provide regular quality assurance reports: emloy highly experienced, customer-orented admixture pharmacist; have monitored and controlled clean room conditions; possess detailed protocols for each admixture process; provide validations for pyrogen assay, mircobial growth, stability, and aseptic fill technique; release tests and finish inspection protocols and provide environmental particulate and bioburden monitoring. Orders will be delivered next day by courier. Estimate usage is 2100- 3 liter bags per year. If your firm has the capabilities to meet all of the above requirements and would like to be considered, please submit supporting information to Cassandra.Craven@med.va.gov or to Cassandra Craven (04A1-H), VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, NLT May 9, 2006 COB. Technical questions can be directed to Lucy Speerhas at (412) 688-6000 ext 823489 or Lucy.Speerhas@med.va.gov. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (24-APR-2006). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 27-OCT-2006, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
 

Web Link

Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/PiVAMC646/PiVAMC646/244-06-01382/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, University Drive, Pittsburgh, PA

Zip Code: 15240

Country: United States
 

Record

SN01172496-F 20061029/061027222941 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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