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Special Notice Special Notice

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Veterans Health Administration Network Contracting Office 16 2575 Keystone Crossing Fayetteville AR 72703

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Contract Specialist Surella Tracy

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) intends to award a sole source contract to Cepheid, 904 Caribbean Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 to provide preventive maintenance and repair services on the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Cepheid GeneXpert equipment (Model Number 840509) at the Alexandria VA Healthcare Center, located in Pineville, Louisiana. This procurement is being conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 12 and 13.

This VA facility has a requirement for a contractor to provide all labor, tools, materials, equipment, software, facilities, transportation and supervision necessary to complete all work associated with performing preventive maintenance services, necessary inspections, and repair services, for the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Cepheid GeneXpert equipment (Model Number 840509). Based on market research and previous acquisition history, it has been determined that Cepheid is the only vendor capable of providing all the required preventive maintenance and repair services.

This notice will be distributed solely through this website. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this site to ensure they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. The North American Classification System Code is 811219, Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance.

The Government intends to negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. Interested parties may identify their interests and capability to respond to this requirement, to include the documentation required by VAAR 852.212-72(c) to the attention of: Surella Tracy, email address: Surella.tracy@va.gov, no later than Thursday, January 6, 2022, at 2:00pm (Central Time). Only emailed responses will be considered. Information received will be utilized solely for determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination not to compete this proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is at the sole discretion of the Government.

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