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* = Required Field Contract Opportunity Sources Sought Notice Q301 Intent to Sole Source - Reference Laboratory Testing Service 60064 36C25221R0047 01-13-2021

10:00AM

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N 621511 Department of Veterans Affairs Great Lakes Acquisition Center (GLAC) 3001 Green Bay Road North Chicago IL 60064 Donald St. Onge doanld.st.onge@va.gov Donald.St.Onge@va.gov 414-844-4828 James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center 3001 Green Bay Road North Chicago

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60064-3048

USA

The Department of Veterans Affairs Great Lakes Acquisition Center (GLAC) in Milwaukee, WI intends to negotiate a sole source contract with Quest Diagnostics to provide Reference Laboratory Testing Services for the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) in North Chicago, IL.

This contract will be for a one-year period, with one one-year option to extend services. The period of performance for these services is 1 March 2021 through 28 February 2022, with the option to extend services through 28 February 2023. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b)(2). The contract will be firm fixed price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity and the NAICS code is 621511. The purpose of this sole source contract is to provide stability and continuity of reference laboratory testing services during the transition from VistA and CHCS to Cerner, a single Electronic Health Record standardized for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. Quest Diagnostics is the only vendor whose catalog of pricing is currently entered into these systems at the FHCC. To input a different vendor’s catalog into the systems would require substantial time and approximately $424,000.00 in additional costs. Additionally, a new vendor would be required to have a Business to Business (B2B) connection that would likely take several months to put in place. This sole source contract would provide sufficient time for the transition to Cerner and provide other vendors the needed time to secure B2B connections in order to be competitive for a long-term contract for these services.

This Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive proposals. No solicitation documents are available and telephone requests will not be honored. However, if a firm believes it can meet the requirements it must furnish information about its products, services and capabilities as well as references from other customers who are using these products and services to provide reference laboratory testing services, to the contracting officer NLT 10:00AM Central, 13 January 2021. Supporting evidence must be submitted in sufficient detail to demonstrate their pricing catalog is currently entered into the VistA and CHCS systems at FHCC, they possess the required B2B connection, and they provide all the services listed in the attached Statement of Work. Information must be sent to Donald St. Onge via email at Donald.st.onge@va.gov. Responses received will be evaluated; however a determination by the Government to not compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. If no responses are received, the GLAC will proceed with the sole source negotiation with Quest Diagnostics.

See attached document: P09 - Reference Lab Testing Services SOW - abbreviated.