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Offers must acknowledge receipt of this amendment prior to the hour and date specified in the solicitation or as amended, by one of the following methods:

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36C255

Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office (NCO) 15 3450 S 4th Street Trafficway

Leavenworth KS 66048

36C255

Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office (NCO) 15 3450 S 4th Street Trafficway

Leavenworth KS 66048

To all Offerors/Bidders

36C25525Q0182

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** HOUR & DATE for Receipt of Offers is EXTENDED to: 03-28-2025 10:00 AM CDT x One

This is an amendment for COST PER RESPORTABLE RESULTS (CPRR)) and COS PER TEST (CPt0 FOR PT/PTT COAGULATION EQUIPMENT FOR VISN 15 MEDICAL CENTERS.

1. The deadline for hte submission of quotes has been extended to March 28, 2025 at 10:00AM CST.

2. Please see attached document for questions and answers.

CONTINUATION PAGE

AMENDMENT 1 RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS

1. The deadline for the submission of quotes has been extended to March 28, 2025, at

10:00AMCST.

2. Would it be possible to get patient volumes for all methods with the PT and APTT separate? See below for Table 1

TABLE 1: PT/PTT Annual Workload

Site PT Estimated Annual Workload PTT Estimated Annual Workload

Columbia, MO 11196 8538

Kansas City, MO 9298 5098

Leavenworth, KS 3000 1500

Marion, IL 5205 2389

Poplar Bluff, MO 3440 1100

St. Louis, MO 8400 4800

Topeka, KS 3000 1500

Wichita, KS 4750 2175

Jefferson Barracks, MO 1200 150

Evansville, IN 500 40

Cape Girardeau, MO 275 25

3. The special kits are in number of kits for Werfen and we would like to determine how many kits we need with Patient Volumes? See attached updated attachment A and special tests must be priced per box.

4. Section B.2 Statement of Work indicates the desire “to establish a Cost-Per Reportable Result (CPRR) IDIQ Contract for PT/PTT Coagulation equipment, and Cost per Test (CPT) for esoteric testing supplies.” Unfortunately, the esoteric testing supplies as listed in the “Special Tests” tab of Attachment A and also Section B.3 are formatted as a “Price per Kit” and not a CPT. Is it the VISNs desire to be quoted as a Cost Per Kit for Specialty Tests as reflected in Attachment A and section B.3 or a CPT as defined in section B.2? The pricing should Cost Per Kit (boxes) for Specialty Tests and BO stands for BOX for pricing in Schedule not bottle.

5. If “Attachment A” is to also be considered “Attachment 1”, only combined annual test volumes for PT+PTT can be found on the CPRR tab. When combined, accurate CPR rates cannot be calculated. These tests use different reagents and may negatively impact a CPRR rate if combined. To ensure accurate pricing and reagents, are you able to please provide the actual annual volume of PT and PTT tests run separately? Please refer to Table 1.

6. Section B.3 Price/Cost Schedule and Document titled “Coagulation Attachment A 2025 Final” lists vendor specific “HemosIL” reagents (https://www.werfen.com/na/en/trademarks-and-patents). Listing vendor specific trademarked material by name limits equal and open fair competition and offers an advantage to a single vendor when other vendors can provide equivalent reagents under a different name for the same test menu. To prevent an unfair advantage for a single vendor, would you please kindly remove reference to vendor specific material to instead reference the test menu and annual volumes to be performed? What should I call the reagents? Please refer to Updated Attachment A, the reagents will be specific to your quotation and product being quoted.

7. Are you able to clarify which lab locations need a backup performance analyzer and what tests are to be available on any indicated backup performance analyzer? Please refer to Table 3.

Table 3: Backup Instrumentation

Site Backup Instrumentation (YES/NO)

Columbia, MO Yes

Kansas City, MO Yes

Leavenworth, KS Yes

Marion, IL Yes

Poplar Bluff, MO Yes

St. Louis, MO Yes

Topeka, KS Yes

Wichita, KS Yes

Jefferson Barracks, MO No

Evansville, IN No

Cape Girardeau, MO No

8. Are routine freight costs from scheduled delivery orders to be included in vendor quotes?

Government doesn’t pay for shipping; we are Freight on Board (FOB) for quotes.

9. Does the Government prefer a single blended CPRR and/or CPT for all sites or do you prefer site specific CPR Rates for each individual lab? Single blended CPRR and/or CPT for all sites.

10. To complete kits for PT/PTT, I do need the testing to be separated by test PT & PTT- ??

Yes, they are separate counts for monthly billing.

11. Is it acceptable to include Fibrinogen in the CPRR with PT&PTT, would this be acceptable?? Yes.

12. When you mention CPT – is VISN15 expecting a cost per test for all tests other than PT, PTT? Under CPT, all tests to complete a result (QC, repeats, calibrators as separate and individual tests in addition to result generating tests) with all tests reported monthly by the test to vendor and billed on a per test basis. OR Cost per box? I think this is cost per box correct? CPT for PT/PTT; Cost per Box for Special tests.

See attached document: Coagulation Attachment A 2025 REVISED