The Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center, 215 North Main St., White River Junction, VT 05009-0001, intends to negotiate a sole source procurement for the Contractor to provide laboratory, clinical and pathology testing services to the Department of Veterans Affairs at White River Junction, VT.
Such services shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
1. Contractor will provide laboratory testing services pursuant to a pre-determined price list (fee schedule) agreeable to the VA for samples delivered to it by the VA.
2. Contractor will provide an agreed upon testing service manual, acceptable to the VA, which includes test descriptions, CPT codes, handling and storage requirements, maximum turnaround times, assay schedule and method, etc.
3. Contractor will have the following accreditations: CAP, CLIA, and the director shall be a licensed American Board of pathology certified pathologist.
4. Contractor will comply with VA and Federal HIPPA rules and regulations.
5. Contractor shall insure procedures are current, acceptable, accurate and precise, with quality control acceptable to the VA, and shall give prior notice to the VA of any changes in important components of an assay, and the efficacy of the test must remain unchanged or be improved.
6. Contractor shall insure that all employees have appropriate and current licenses, and meet qualifications required by CLIA '88 guidelines.
7. Contractor shall provide results promptly to VA, and in a manner and timetable acceptable to the VA, and to no other person or entity.
8. Results will be reported to the VA twice per day, and STAT results shall be reported immediately after the test is performed, and shall contain information designated by and acceptable to the VA.
9. Contractor shall store specimens a minimum of seven days.
10. Contractor's laboratory shall be geographically proximate to this VA's location in order that transportation of samples and results be made both timely and at an acceptably low cost.
11. Tests conducted by Contractor shall at a minimum be those listed below, together with such other and additional tests as may be required by the VA from time to time:
CPT Test Description
88230 Tissue Culture Stimulated Blood 1
88237 Tissue Culture BM/Unstim
88280 Addt'l Karyotype BM Unstim
88285 Addt'l Cells BM/Unstim
88273 FISH Microdeletion Analysis
88275 FISH Chromosome Analysis
88184 Flow Cytometry, 1st marker
88185 Flow Cytometry, each add'l
88264 Chromosone Analysis BM
86022 HLA/Platelet Ab Screening ELIS I
86022 Drug/PLT Results
88180 Immunophenotyping,Flow
88305 Gross & Micro level IV
88313 Spec.Stain, Grp2 other
88319 Histochem, Muscle/Enzy
88342 Immunohistochenistry,AP
88321 TC Consultation Prepared Slides
86146 Beta-2 Glycoprotein I
87015 Conc. for Infectious Agents
83970 Parathyroid Hormone, IRMA
87324 C.Diff Toxin Assay
85520 Heparin Assay
85379 D-Dimer
85307 APC Resistance
82055 Ethyl Alcohol, Blood
85300 Antithrombim III Assay
85025 CBC
85049 Platelet Count
82310 Calcium
85670 Thrombin Time
85240 Factor 8 Assay
85730 PTT
85303 Protein C Assay
85306 Protein S Assay
82805 Cooximetry Panel
85384 Fibrinogen
85610 Prothrombin Time
82003 Acetominophen
85732 Circulating Anticoagulant
85597 Lupus Anticoagulant
84153 PSA
83605 L-Lactate
80200 Tobramycin Random
87086 Urine Culture
87116 Mycobaterium(AFB)Culture
86403 Cryptococcal Antigen
83891 DNA Isolation-Complex
83892 Digestion
83894 Separation (Electro.)
85540 Leukocyte Alkaline
82803 Arterial Blood Gases
80176 Lidocaine
85246 Von Willebrand Factor Ag
85245 Von Willebrand Factor Activity
87324 C. Difficile Toxin A/B
87301 C. Difficile Toxin Antigen
84484 Troponin T
This announcement is not a request for competitive quotations. Telephone inquiries will not be honored; however, interested parties may submit responses to this announcement and literature detailing how their services meet the VA requirements to the Contracting Officer. Responses received on or before November 9, 2009, will be considered. A determination not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice will be solely at the discretion of the government.
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