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* = Required Field Contract Opportunity Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Notice BD Reagents and Supplies 78240 36C25721Q0143 12-15-2020

4:00 PM

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N 325413 Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 17 5441 Babcock Rd., Ste. 302 San Antonio TX 78229 Vance Farrell Network Contracting Office 17 vance.farrell@va.gov Department of Veterans Affairs South Texas Veterans Health Care System Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service 7400 Merton Minter San Antonio

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vance.farrell@va.gov

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This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.

(ii) Solicitation number 36C25721Q0143 is issued as a request for quote (RFQ).

(iii) The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2020-09.

(iv) This solicitation is solicited as Unrestricted, Full and Open Competition, with an associated NAICS code of 325413, which has a small business size standard of 1,250.

(v) Line Item description:

0001 – See Attachment 1, Price List [57 Items] (Estimated Annual Quantities). See Statement of Work within the attached schedule for additional requirements.

1001 – 4001; This solicitation has options. Vendors that want to offer different prices for the option periods must return a separate price list for those options that have different prices.

(vi) This requirement is for providing the aforementioned reagents and consumable supplies to the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, as a standing order. Requests for quantities of the items will be placed on an as-needed basis throughout each period of performance (multiple shipments). The costs for shipping and handling are to be included in the costs of the items on the price list.

(vii) The anticipated delivery dates are between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021. FOB destination at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service, 7400 Merton Minter, San Antonio, TX 78229-4404.

(viii) The provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. Addenda to the instructions, as applicable:

(a) This solicitation includes FAR provision 52.211-6, Brand Name, or Equal. The reagents and consumable supplies must be able to fit and function on the BD SPAIII5 and BD FACS CANTO II instruments for performing flow cytometry.

(b) This solicitation includes FAR provision 52.214-11, Descriptive Literature. Offerors proposing ‘equal’ items must include the specifications of the proposed item(s) with their offer. Failure to submit the descriptive literature of a proposed ‘equal’ item may determine the offer to be evaluated as technically unacceptable.

(c) Offers may be submitted on the attached price schedule or in the offerors own format (Microsoft document or PDF).

(ix) The provision at FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, is used in this solicitation. Offers will be evaluated as Comparative Evaluation of Offers. All offers will be evaluated compared to each other. The offer that is selected as the apparent successful offer will be considered the best value for the government.

(x) Offerors whom have submitted an annual online representations and certifications (FAR provision 52.212-3) in the Systems and Award Management (SAM) DO NOT need to return a completed copy of the provision with their offer. Offerors must be registered and have completed the provision at FAR 52.212-3 in SAM to be considered for an award from this solicitation.

(xi) The clause at FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. Addenda to the included clause state that clauses that are incorporated by reference have the same effect as if they were given in full text.

(xii) The clause at FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. See attached schedule regarding the additional FAR clauses cited within the clause that are applicable to this acquisition.

(xiii) Additional contract terms or conditions: N/A

(xiv) The Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS) does not apply to this acquisition.

(xv) Offers are due by 15 December 2020, by 4:00 PM CST. Offers may be mailed, hand delivered, or submitted by email (see size limit note below) to Vance Farrell at vance.farrell@va.gov.

(xvi) All questions regarding information in the solicitation must be submitted in writing to the Point of Contact (POC), Vance Farrell, by email at vance.farrell@va.gov no later than 27 November 2020, 2:00 PM CST. Questions asked after 27 November may not be considered for extending the solicitation.

Due to email constraints by the VA it is requested that emails being sent to the POC be no larger than 7MB. Multiple emails can be sent to the POC for an offer. If an offer is sent in multiple parts, it is recommended that a confirmation request be included in the final email, for the POC to acknowledge that all (parts) of the offer have been received.

See attached document: S02 - 36C25721Q0143 - SF1449.

See attached document: Attachment 1 - Price List - BD Flow Cytometry.