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GENERAL INFORMATION

SET-ASIDE

Network Contracting Office

NCO 19

6162 South Willow Drive, Suite 300 Greenwood Village CO 80111

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contracting Officer Edward Emerson Edward.Emerson@va.gov 303-712-5720

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

500 Foothill Blvd.

Salt Lake City UT

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

DESCRIPTION

SOURCES SOUGHT INQUIRY

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY

DEADLINE FOR RESPONSES IS 11/12/2025 AT 10AM MT

The Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office (NCO) 19, Rocky Mountain Acquisition Center (RMAC) is seeking information and sources that can provide Histocompatability and Immunogenetics Testing Services for the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center located at 500 Foothill Blvd, Salt Lake City, UT 84148.

Services requested are as follows:

Contractor shall furnish, labor, materials, and facilities to provide a complete range of diagnostic testing services, used primarily in the field of clinical organ transplantation and secondarily, for study of associations between certain diseases and several HLA alloantigen’s. Services are to be performed in accordance with the standards of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI).

The contractor shall be responsible for performing analysis and result interpretation for patient specimens, as requested. Services shall include the transportation of specimens to the contractor’s laboratory(ies), the performance of analytical testing, the reporting of analytical test results, and consultative services, as required to assimilate the full scope of its laboratory operations, to the ordering facility.

The contractor shall provide STAT (within 60 minutes) on-site pick up of patient specimen samples. The contractor shall provide STAT coverage on a 24-hour basis, for clinical consultation and for final placement of organs from deceased donors including: kidney, pancreas, heart, lung, and liver transplants.

Please see the below required test list, all tests (or equivalent) must be offered:

The NAICS code is 621511 – Medical Laboratories. Small Business Size Standard is $42 Million.

This is a sources sought only, which may or may not lead to future solicitation! This is not a Request for Quotations (RFQ). No questions will be answered. The VA will not pay for any information received resulting from this sources sought notice. Requests for copies of a solicitation shall not be honored or acknowledged. Information should be forwarded to the Contracting Officer. If your organization can provide these services and is interested in this opportunity, please respond to Edward Emerson, Contracting Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, NCO 19 via e-mail at Edward.Emerson@va.gov with a statement describing your capabilities. The capability statement shall include a point of contact, complete mailing address, telephone number, email address and state the company’s business size status.

Please fill in and return the contractor information below. The deadline for this information is 10 AM Mountain Time, November 12th, 2025.

Company Name:

Address:

UEI (Unique Entity ID) Number:

Contact Name:

Phone No.:

Email:

Business Size Information - Select all that applies:

· Small Business

· Emerging Small Business

· Small Disadvantaged Business

· Certified under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act

· HUBZone

· Woman Owned

· Certified Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small

· Veteran Owned Small Business

· Large Business

FSS/GSA Contract Number:

Effective Date/ Expiration Date:

Available pricing structure of proposed solution (select all that are applicable below):

Cost Per Test (CPT)

Other: (Please explain)

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Market Rearch Questions:

Questions for Small Businesses ONLY:

1. Limitations on Subcontracting (FAR 52.219-14) – What percentage of the work would be subcontracted to another company? ________ If > 0, what is company’s business size: __________

2. If subcontracting, what added value do you offer (FAR 52.215-23):

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