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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