6550--Supplies - Blood Bank Reagents 5-Yr OP - Saginaw

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 is soliciting quotations for blood bank testing reagents, specifically Quidel-Ortho Clinical Diagnostic brand-name products including Selectogen, Coombs Control, Confidence System, and Affirmagen. This Request for Quotation will result in a firm-fixed price five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a performance period running from May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2031. The solicitation requires that reagents be compatible exclusively with Ortho products for tube testing methodology in pre-transfusion screening applications. Evaluation will be conducted on a lowest-price technically acceptable basis, with contract payments to be made via electronic funds transfer on a monthly invoice basis. Quotations must be submitted by April 14, 2026, at 4:30 PM Eastern Time to Contracting Officer Kellie Konopinski at Kellie.Konopinski@va.gov, with no prior deadline for questions specified in the documentation.

This procurement carries no small business set-aside designation and is unrestricted. The estimated annual quantity for each of the four required reagent products is 13 units, supporting the VA Medical Center's transfusion screening operations over the five-year contract term. The justification for this brand-name-only procurement documents that switching manufacturers would require extensive validation studies and is infeasible due to resource constraints and the planned Oracle Cerner electronic health record implementation. The place of performance is the Aleda E Lutz VA Medical Center located at 1500 Weiss Street, Saginaw, Michigan 48602, with delivery on an FOB Destination basis using standing order delivery terms. The solicitation falls under NAICS code 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing) with a 1,000-employee size standard, and the Product Service Code is 6550 (In Vitro Diagnostic Substances, Reagents, Test Kits and Sets).