7A21--VISN 4 Hub Medicopia Software Specimen Collection System | New Requirement

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, specifically the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 04, published this Special Notice on January 30, 2026, to announce its intent to award a sole source contract for Medicopia Specimen Collection Software. The procurement is for a VISN-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) that will be supplied by Data Capture Solutions, the sole authorized distributor of Lattice, Inc.'s software, located in Ellington, Connecticut. This notice serves as a formal announcement of intent to award and is explicitly not a request for competitive proposals or offers. The contracting office is based at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center in Pennsylvania. The procurement falls under NAICS Code 513210 (Software Publishers) and Product Service Code 7A21 (IT and Telecom - Business Application Software).

The objective of this procurement is to establish a VISN-wide BPA for specimen collection software using Simplified Acquisition Procedures as a firm fixed-price open market agreement under FAR 12.106-1 authority for limiting sources. The response deadline for interested parties was originally February 4, 2026, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time but has been extended to February 16, 2026, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. The sole source justification will be posted either concurrent with or within 14 days following contract award. This notice explicitly states that the Government's decision not to compete this procurement is solely within its discretion, and interested parties should contact Contract Specialist Joanne Skaff at joanne.skaff@va.gov; telephone calls are not permitted. Since this is a sole source award, traditional competitive eligibility criteria do not apply; the contract will be negotiated directly with the identified vendor.