Cepheid GeneXpert Supplies

The Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Healthcare System, VISN 10 intends to negotiate a sole source contract with Cepheid Genexpert for Cepheid GeneXpert cartridges and collection kits. The contract would provide these supplies to the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center to perform various diagnostic testing on its GeneXpert module system. The agreement would be a firm fixed price contract for a base year starting April 15, 2024 with four option years, pricing the specified cartridges and collection kits on a cost per test basis. Responses to the notice must be submitted by November 7, 2023 to be considered, demonstrating how competition would benefit the government.

The opportunity is set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses. The associated NAICS code is 325413 for pharmaceutical preparation manufacturing, with a business size standard of 1,250 employees. Cepheid Genexpert is identified as the potential incumbent contractor. No award values or quantities are specified, but the supplies would support diagnostic testing needs over the five-year period of the potential sole source contract with Cepheid Genexpert.