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Veterans Health Administration Regional Procurement Office (RPO) East 323 North Shore Drive, Suite 500 Pittsburgh PA 15212-5319

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Contracting Officer Ms. Millicent Covert millicent.covert@va.gov

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Regional Procurement Office (RPO) – East Research and Development Contracting Division intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, with Robert L. Jensen, PhD, LLC for follow-on contract for spirometry training and consultation services for the Cooperative Studies Program (CSP), Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center (ERIC) team at the VA Puget Sound.

Robert L. Jensen, PhD, LLC is a consulting company that has reviewed pulmonary function data for over 20 years. It offers highly specialized services and has extensive experience with multicenter observational studies, demonstrating the capability to provide the services required. Robert L. Jensen, PhD, LLC has been involved in the development of quality control procedures for this study protocol and has provided sample quality reports that meet requirements. Robert L. Jensen, PhD, LLC has written the accepted protocols on the conduct of pulmonary function and developed proprietary software to analyze the quality assurance data. It also has experience in using the Easy on-PC Spirometry System software and hardware from previous VA studies. Robert L. Jensen, PhD, LLC has been involved in multiple large, VA epidemiologic studies, and provides a unique service to researchers and assists in translating the data collected into academic peer reviewed publications. To maintain consistent support and data quality on this study, Robert L. Jensen, PhD, LLC will continue to serve as a scientific collaborator on this study and will participate in data analysis and publications related to spirometry and health and quality assurance as with previous VA Studies.

This is a notice of intent and is not a request for competitive quotes; however, any responsible source that believes it is qualified to meet this unique need may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 11:59AM EST. Interest/capability statements may be sent to Ms. Millicent Covert at millicent.covert@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

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