Heart Biopsy Consults

The George E. Wahlen VA Salt Lake City Health Care System Pathology Service has a requirement for a contractor to provide pathology services and lab facilities for consultation services in support of examination and interpretation of heart transplant biopsies. These services shall include light microscopy, immunofluorescence, and electron microscopy. Offerors shall also have the capability to process and stain heart biopsy tissue slides during instances when SLC VA HCS personnel are not available. Contractor histology laboratory shall be College of American Pathologist and CLIA accredited. The contractor shall maintain CAP requirements/standards for heart biopsy tissue processing and preparation of stained slides. The services are to be performed in support of the cardiac transplant program. Service Providers must specialize in Cardiovascular Pathology, and have experience with examination of post heart transplant tissue evaluation to determine possible tissue rejection post heart transplant surgery. The contractor shall also be able to provide courier service for picking up slides for interpretation or heart biopsy tissue for processing from the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System on a STAT basis, within one hour from the time they are notified of the request and therefore must be located within 25 miles of the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center, 500 Foothill Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84108. This is not a temporary FTE staffing position for a pathologist. The contractor shall be paid per consult.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this procurement is 621111. The solicitation for these services will be issued on or about May 29, 2014. All information for this solicitation will be posted on FedBizOpps http://www.fedbizopps.gov. Potential bidders are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation package and any other pertinent information. All interested parties MUST be registered in the SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM) AT https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/