The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 (VA - VHA VISN 21) awarded a $527,000 purchase order to Leica Microsystems Inc. Leica Biosystems Division for a Leica Stellaris 5 Confocal Microscope System. The contract has a period of performance from September 30, 2022 through March 31, 2023. The original solicitation sought to replace obsolete confocal microscope equipment at the San Francisco VA Health Care System that was no longer...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awarded a $44,547.77 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Life Technologies Corporation, doing business as Thermo Fisher Scientific, for the procurement of a fluorescent microscope system. This instrument will be delivered to the VA's GLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. The microscope must meet specific technical requirements, including a 3.2 megapixel monochrome camera, LED light source, and 1.25X to 100X magnification range, to support...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 (VA - VHA VISN 2) awarded a $130,166 firm fixed price purchase order to Molecular Devices LLC for a SPECTRAMAX ID5 SYSTEM WITH GRANT FUNDING. The place of performance is San Jose, California. The period of performance is from September 19, 2023 through September 5, 2024. This award will deliver a SPECTRAMAX ID5 system to support the VA's mission of providing healthcare services to veterans. As...
This is a $699,177.12 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Integrated Service Network 6, to Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for a Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2 confocal microscope system. The microscope system was procured to meet the technical requirements of the VA's Research Service at the Richmond VA Medical Center, including a 32-channel GaAsP PMT array detector,...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 (VA - VHA VISN 10) awarded a $10,888 firm fixed price purchase order to Leica Microsystems Inc.'s Leica Biosystems Division for a STELLARIS confocal microscope. As the prime contractor, Leica Biosystems will deliver the requested microscope to support VA-VHA VISN 10's healthcare programs. No subcontractors or set aside designations were identified. This non-complex procurement leverages...
The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $523,840 firm fixed price purchase order to Bitterroot Services & Technology, LLC dba BST to deliver one Leica SP8 confocal microscope system. The contract has a period of performance from May 26, 2020 to August 19, 2020 for delivery and installation at the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This award was made under a solicitation by the Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 seeking a user-friendly confocal...
The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $648,968.96 firm fixed price purchase order to Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC for a Modular Laser Scanning Microscope - LSM 980 with Airyscan Multiplex and components. The contract has a period of performance from April 19, 2021 to December 31, 2021 for equipment to support research studies at the VA Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The original solicitation sought a confocal microscope system with super resolution capabilities, an improved...
The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at approximately $2 million to Nikon Instruments Inc. to deliver a Nikon A1RHD-MP multiphoton imaging system with vibration isolation tables. Performance will take place in Allegheny-West, Pennsylvania over an 11-month period concluding on December 31, 2022. The Special Notice solicitation sought an exact multiphoton system compatible with the VA's existing equipment, capable of large field of view,...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Molecular Devices LLC, a division of Danaher Corporation, for a SpectraMax i3X Multimode Detection Platform system, including parts, installation, technical support, and training. The contract has a ceiling value of $49,400.00 and an ultimate completion date of July 10, 2025. This sole-source contract was awarded under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, as Molecular Devices is the only responsible source...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 awarded a $464,380 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Nikon Inc. to deliver a Nikon AX R confocal microscope and associated equipment, installation, and training. The solicitation sought a Nikon AX R confocal microscope with specified detectors, objective lenses ranging from 2X to 100X, incubation stage top, software, and compressed air and gas controls to be delivered to the VA Northern...