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GENERAL INFORMATION

Network Contracting Office 1

200 Springs Road Bedford MA 01730

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contracting Specialist Manasés Cabrera manases.cabrera@va.gov

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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This notice is being published in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 5.101(a)(2) requiring the dissemination of information on proposed contract actions. This is a notice of intent to award a sole-source contract pursuant to 10 U.S.C 2304 (C)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a)(2) and 6.301-1(c), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, and brand-name descriptions.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center located at VA Boston Healthcare System West Roxbury Campus, 1400 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury, MA 02132, has a requirement for the following:

G1-205-JBY4: LT JBY 4 MAG LASER CASS PRINTR

GDC SERVICE INSTALL HC PER DAY: GDC Service Install Healthcare Per Day GDC SERVICE TRAVEL HC FLAT RT: GDC Service Travel Healthcare Flat Rate Per Trip- GDCS-03: Custom Frontend - Additional License

The Government intends to award a firm-fixed-price sole source contract to General Data Company Inc.

A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. this notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. This is a written notice to inform the public of the Governments intent to award on a sole source basis.

Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition will be advantageous to the Government.

Please contact Manasés Cabrera, Contracting Specialist with the responses or questions regarding this requirement at manases.cabrera@va.gov.

This notice will close on March 21, 2024, at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Statement of Work

1. General Objectives and Requirements

a. Title: Anatomic Pathology Cassette Printers

b. Purpose: Laboratory service needs a new anatomic pathology cassette printing system at West Roxbury. The function of this system is to ensure that patient anatomic pathology samples and tissue blocks are not hand labelled. This is done for patient safety. Incorrectly identifying a handwritten cassette and creating patient slides against the wrong tissue block are both known errors that can be made when using a manual process. The cassette printer minimizes human error in this process.

c. Background: West Roxbury currently owns a General Data cassette printer and needs a backup one.

d. Minimum Requirements:

· The cassette printer must use laser printing with 2D barcodes.

· The printer must produce permanent, indelible histology cassette printing with high-resolution text and barcodes.

· The cassette printer must print directly onto the cassette, eliminating the need for handwriting on labels.

· Cassettes must have a ≥99.5% scan rate.

· The cassette printer must have a small footprint. Space in the histology labs is very limited.

· The cassette printer must have the capacity to print and organize up to 100 cassettes at a time.

· The cassette printer must have a built-in cassette organization system, which holds a minimum of 100 cassettes.

· The cassette organization system must be able to accommodate at a minimum 4 different cassette types and colors at once.

· The cassette printer must have minimal to no cassette jams during printing.

· The cassette printer must print at a rate of ≥12 cassettes per minute.

· The cassette printer must be capable of both on demand and batch cassette printing.

· Cassettes must have attached lids.

· The cassette printer must not require ribbon, printheads or tapes.

2. Tasks and Associated Deliverables:

a. Training and installation for the cassette printers.

b. Customization of cassette printing

c. Custom scanning functionality

d. One year service warranty

e. No charges for shipping.

VISN 1 Locations and Points of Contact:

VA Boston Healthcare System West Roxbury Campus 1400 VFW Parkway West Roxbury, MA 02132

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