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Special Notice Special Notice

GENERAL INFORMATION

Network Contracting Office 4

POINT OF CONTACT*

Cynthia Grygier Contracting Officer cynthia.grygier@va.gov

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INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 4 (NCO4) intends to sole source a contract for BioFire Gastrointestinal (GI) kits, RFIT-ASY-0116 for the Lebanon VA Medical Center. All work is to be completed in accordance with statement of work. This sole source contract will be solicited and negotiated with BioFire Diagnostics, LLC, 515 Colorow Dr., Salt Lake City, UT 84108 under the authority of FAR 13.106-1 – Single Source Justification.

See attached Draft Statement of Work (SOW).

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 334516. The Small Business Administration (SBA) size standard is 1,000 Employees.

Interested vendors that can meet this requirement, shall identify their interest and capability, and respond to this notice by 02/28/2023 by 10:00 AM EST. Interested vendors must send a capability statement, no more than one page in length; to include Company Name, ueiSAM Number, Socioeconomic Category, brief description of your business entities capability to handle this particular project at the Lebanon VA Medical Center.

This Special Notice of Intent to Sole Source is for planning purposes only. No solicitation will be made available. This is not a request for quotations. All information shall be provided at no cost or obligation to the Government. Responses must be sent via email to the Contracting Officer at cynthia.grygier@va.gov.

Responses received will be evaluated; however, a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon the responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. If no responses are received, Contracting will proceed with the sole source negotiation with BioFire Diagnostics, LLC.

DRAFT

Statement of Need Lebanon VA Medical Center

Title of Project: BioFire GI Panel Scope of Work: Vendor shall provide all resources necessary to accomplish the deliverables described in this Statement of Need (SON), except as may otherwise be specified. Vendor shall be responsible for providing reagents for performing gastrointestinal (GI) testing.

Background: Lebanon Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center has a requirement to purchase the brand-name -BioFire FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel, Reference: RFIT-ASY-0116, manufactured by BioFire Diagnostics by Biomerieux.

Type of Contract and Delivery: The Lebanon VA Medical Center and Laboratory Services Department are contracting for a Sole Source, BPA, Firm Fixed Price (FFP) by kit.

Period of Performance: 03/15/2023 through 03/14/2028. Yearly task orders will be placed against the BPA.

Year (1): 03/15/2023 – 03/14/2024 Year (2): 03/15/2024 – 03/14/2025 Year (3): 03/15/2025 – 03/14/2026 Year (4): 03/15/2026 – 03/14/2027 Year (5): 03/15/2027 – 03/14/2028

Sole Source Justification: Lebanon VA Medical Center has a requirement to purchase brand-name GI Panel-Reference: RFIT-ASY-0116, manufactured by BioFire Diagnostics by Biomerieux. The BioFire Assays are for use with the BIOFIRE Torch System, which is already in use and staff are trained. The gastrointestinal panel assays are intended to aid in the diagnosis or ruling out of gastrointestinal infections. On an average, Lebanon VA Medical Center performs about 300 Stool Cultures and Ova & Parasite testing per year. The kits are used in the clinical laboratory. Kits are packaged in assays of 30 single use pouches. Test kits are stored at room temperature until use and are not used past their expiration date.

Salient Characteristics: The reagent panel should include:

· Campylobacter (jejuni,coli, and upsaliensis)

· Clostridium difficile (toxin A/B)

· Plesiomonas shigelloides

· Salmonella

· Yersinia Enterocolitica

· Vibrio (cholerae, parahaemolyticus, and vulnificus)

· Vibrio cholerae

· Diarrheagenic E. coli/shigella

· Enteroaggregative E. Coli (EAEC)

· Enteropathogenic E. Coli (EPEC)

· Enterotoxigenic E. Coli (ETEC) lt/st

· Shiga-like toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) stx1/stx2

· E.coli 0157

· Shigella/Enteroinvasive E.Coli (EIEC)

· Cryptosporidium

· Cyclospora cayetanensis

· Entamoeba histolytica

· Giardia lamblia

· Adenovirus F40/41

· Astrovirus

· Norovirus GI/GII

· Rotavirus A

· Sapovirus (I,II,IV, and V)

Requirements:

· Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel

· Manufacturer- Biofire (no substitutes)

· Product Number: RFIT-ASY-0116

· Kit size-30 pouches with reagents per kit

· Minimum Quantity: 6 Kits/yr (30 tests/kit)

· Estimated quantity is 6, but may be more.

· These reagent kits are patented product sold exclusively through Biofire. There are no resellers of this product. The instrumentation is owned and changing instrumentation would require a month-long validation and retraining of employees.

· Expiration dates shall be no less than 6 months from delivery date.

· One lot number of products is requested per shipment.

Identification of Participants: Following personnel are the Contracting Officer Representative (COR)/Point of Contact (POC) and secondary POC, who are government employees assigned to monitor the contract on behalf of the Contracting Officer:

COR/POC

Name: Michelle Niebauer Phone Number: 717-272-6621, x4187 Email Address: Michelle.Niebauer@va.gov

Secondary POC Name: April Kurtz Phone Number: 717-272-6621, x4180 Email Address: April.Kurtz@va.gov

Delivery: Lebanon VA Medical Center, ATTN: Laboratory Medicine Services, 1700 South Lincoln Avenue, Lebanon, PA 17042 NOTE: The COR has no authority to change the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. Any deviation from the contract must be approved by the Contracting Officer Representative.

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