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Presolicitation Notice Presolicitation Notice

GENERAL INFORMATION

SET-ASIDE

POSTAL CODE

CONTACT INFORMATION

Network Contracting Office

NCO 19

6162 South Willow Drive, Suite 300 Greenwood Village CO 80111

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contract Specialist Dale Childress Dale.Childress2@va.gov 303-712-5735

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

DESCRIPTION

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION: The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office (NCO) 19 Rocky Mountain Acquisition Center, 6162 S. Willow Drive, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 intends to solicit sources to enter into a firm-fixed price, Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to provide Microbiology Culture Media for the following VISN 19 locations:

Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center (RMRVAMC) located at 1700 North Wheeling Street, Aurora CO, 80045, VA Cheyenne Health Care System located at 2360 East Pershing Blvd., Cheyenne WY, 82001 VA Sheridan Health Care System located at 1898 Fort Road, Sheridan, WY 82801 VA Montana Health Care System located at 3717 Veteran’s Drive Fort Harrison MT, 59636 VA Salt Lake City Health Care System located at 500 Foothill Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah 84148 VA Oklahoma City Health Care Systems located at 921 NE 13th St. Oklahoma City, OK 73104 VA Muskogee Health Care System located at 1011 Honor Heights Dr., Muskogee, OK, 74401 The contractor shall provide a full range/wide array of microbiology media, supplies, identification kits, biochemical reagents for rapid/full identification, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) quality control (QC) organisms, and disposable supplies related to processing and complete work-up of specimens for microbiology cultures. Media, kits, reagents, and QC-organisms are specific for required microbiology testing for patient specimens, and quality control requirements.

The solicitation package will be available for download on or about August 13, 2021, and proposals shall be 17 days after the issuance of the solicitation, and no later than 9:00 a.m. mountain time. The applicable NAICS code is 325413- In Vitro Diagnostic Substances, Reagents, Test Kits, and Sets with a small business size standard of 1250 employees. This solicitation is an unrestricted, FAR Part 8, Federal Supply Schedule only. The solicitation reference is 36C25921Q0685 – VISN 19 Microbiology Culture Media and should be referenced in all correspondence/ inquiries. The locations for services are stated above. All information for this solicitation will be posted on the Contracting Opportunities (CO) website at www.betasam.gov. No hard copies of the solicitation will be provided. Any amendments to this solicitation will be available at this website and offerors are advised that they are responsible for obtaining amendments to this solicitation at this website prior to the time of responding to the solicitation. Any questions pertaining to the solicitation must be provided to the contract specialist, in writing within 7 days of the posting of the solicitation, at Dale.Childress2@va.gov and NCO19Services2@va.gov . This is the pre-solicitation notice only.

Presolicitation Notice