DOCUMENT
Q -- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Services - Attachment
- Notice Date
- 3/22/2017
- Notice Type
- Attachment
- NAICS
- 621511
— Medical Laboratories
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;NCO 23 - Minneapolis;708 S. Third St., Suite 200E;Attention: Ken Eshom;Minneapolis MN 55415
- ZIP Code
- 55415
- Solicitation Number
- VA26317R0448
- Response Due
- 3/26/2018
- Archive Date
- 7/3/2018
- Point of Contact
- Ken Eshom
- E-Mail Address
-
4-2191<br
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a sources sought announcement only. This is not a solicitation announcement. The purpose of this announcement is to gain knowledge of current market conditions relative to NAICS 621511 Medical Laboratories with a size standard $32.5 Million. The Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), Network Contracting Office 23 (NCO 23), on behalf of Minneapolis VA Health Care System (MVAHCS), Minneapolis, MN is seeking to identify any vendors capable of providing specialized specific complex case diagnostic testing and consult services not provided by the MVAHCS. The proposed contract vehicle will be for a five (5) year ordering period. Background: Prior to issuing a solicitation, and pursuant to the Veterans First Contracting Program, the VA is trying to ascertain if there are qualified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses (SDVOSB) or Veteran Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) with the capability of providing the below services (Respondents are not limited to SDVOSB/VOSB concerns; the Government seeks to identify all potentially interested sources): SCOPE: The MVAHCS requires the services of a contractor to provide specialized specific complex case diagnostic testing and consult services not provided by the MVAHCS. Testing needs may consist of, but are not limited to, serological and in situ hybridization-based tests for infectious disease; quantitative tissue analysis for copper and iron; specialized neurological testing; screening for hereditary disorders such as hereditary non-polyposis colon carcinoma syndrome; hemoglobin electrophoresis; determination of erythrocyte, CSF, and serum enzyme levels; and consultation on complex anatomic pathology cases, including ophthalmologic, pulmonary and urologic pathology. These services require a comprehensive academic medical center with extensive expertise across a wide range of surgical pathology disciplines and organ systems. The pathology department must include nationally recognized experts in a variety of areas of anatomic pathology, such as urologic, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, and soft tissue/ orthopedic pathology. In addition, the medical center must include a division or subdivision of ophthalmologic pathology, with specialized ophthalmologic pathologists. The laboratory must be able to provide specialized neurology testing to include the following assays: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) Autoantibody, IgG, Serum Antineuronal Nuc Aby, Type 1 Antineuronal Nuc Aby, Type 2 Antineuronal Nuc Aby, Type 3 Anti-Glial Nuc Aby, Type 1 Purkinje Cell Cyto Aby, Type 1 Purkinje Cell Aby, Type 2 Purkinje Cell Aby, Type TR Amphiphysin Aby, S CRMP-6-IgG Striational Muscle Aby P/Q Type Calcium Channel Aby N-Type Calcium Channel Aby Acetylcholine Receptor Binding Aby AChR Ganglionic Neuronal Aby, S Neuronal (V-G) K+ Channel Aby CRMP-5-IgG Western Blot The contractor must be able to offer specialized testing for infectious disease, including in situ hybridization for histoplasma in tissue, and urinary histoplasma antigen. Responses to this sources sought notice must include the following information. 1. General Information of your company name, address, contact person name, phone number, fax number, e-mail address(s) and DUNS number and company website if available. 2. Socio-economic status of business (i.e. SDVOSB/VOSB, Small Business, Large etc.) 3. Are you, or have you provided specialized specific complex case diagnostic testing and consult services to any federal treatment facility? If so, please provide contract number(s) for the previous three (3) years. 4. Will your company enter into a joint venture or other relationship in order to provide this service? Responses to this market survey shall be in writing and be faxed or e-mailed to the attention of Ken Eshom, at fax number (612-333-3792) or e-mail ken.eshom@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. Responses must be received no later than 3:00 pm March 29, 2017. No solicitation document is available at this time; this notice is to acquire information only. Vendors interested in providing an offer will have to respond to a solicitation announcement that shall be published separately.
- Web Link
-
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(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/MiVAMC618/MiVAMC618/VA26317R0448/listing.html)
- Document(s)
- Attachment
- File Name: VA263-17-R-0448 VA263-17-R-0448SRC.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3357145&FileName=VA263-17-R-0448-000.docx)
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- File Name: VA263-17-R-0448 VA263-17-R-0448SRC.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=3357145&FileName=VA263-17-R-0448-000.docx)
- Record
- SN04444100-W 20170324/170322234954-c3acd7b22d1ebef1c1a9c435091643e3 (fbodaily.com)
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