Blood and Blood Bank Products

The Indian Health Service intends to procure blood products and supplies for the Lawton Indian Hospital Blood Bank under an Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise set-aside, with capability statements due August 14, 2026.

Place of performance is Lawton Indian Hospital, 1515 NE Lawrie Tatum Road, Lawton, Oklahoma 73507. The contractor must provide comprehensive blood bank services including ABO/RH typing, antibody identification and screening, direct antiglobulin tests, antigen typing (FYA, FYB, JKA, JKB, K, LEA, LEB, M, N, S, P1, C, and E), RBC molecular typing, CMV testing, fetal hemoglobin screening, compatibility testing, leukofiltered red cells, frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate, plateletpheresis, and professional immunohematology clinical laboratory testing. Compatibility testing turnaround is four hours for non-routine cases and eight hours for routine or unusual blood requirements. Immunohematology testing reports must be delivered within six hours of sample receipt. The contractor must maintain 24/7 availability with one-hour response time for STAT pickup and delivery services plus delivery time. Special requests such as leukocyte-reduced units, antigen-negative units, CMV-negative and irradiated units, and sickle cell-negative units carry turnaround times of two to six hours. Routine standing order inventory changes occur Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM through 4:00 PM, excluding federal holidays and weekends. Performance period runs from February 24, 2023 through February 23, 2028. Applicants must submit capability statements and completed Buy Indian Act Indian Economic Enterprise Representation Forms to audrey.yackeyonny@ihs.gov, limited to five pages maximum. NAICS 621991 (Blood and Organ Banks) applies; small business size standard is $40 million.