6550--Reagents and Consumables for Laboratory Tests. This is for Puget Sound VA Medical Center

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 is seeking to procure reagents and consumables for laboratory tests at the Puget Sound VA Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The primary focus of this solicitation is new primary analyzer equipment that must fully support the scope of operations and meet specified productivity and throughput requirements. Depending on technical functionality and manufacturer capabilities, vendors may propose one or multiple analyzers to meet the volume and service demands of the facility. Any additional analyzers offered as primary instrumentation must meet all technical specifications outlined in the solicitation and may serve as backup equipment, thereby eliminating the need for a separate backup analyzer. The response deadline for this pre-solicitation notice is February 9, 2026, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time, with responses to be archived 15 days after the response date. Prospective vendors should direct inquiries to Hector Gonzalez at hector.gonzalez1@va.gov, with the contracting office located in Vancouver, Washington.

This pre-solicitation notice contains no set-aside designations and does not identify any current contractors or incumbents. The solicitation does not specify an award value or budget range in the pre-solicitation documentation. No specific quantity of goods or service timeline details are provided in this notice. The applicable product service code is 6550 for In Vitro Diagnostic Substances, Reagents, Test Kits and Sets, and the NAICS code is 325413 for In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing. This is a civilian procurement with no Recovery Act funding designated. Interested vendors should prepare responses addressing the technical specifications and capabilities of their proposed analyzer equipment to meet the facility's operational requirements.