ISO 2024-2025 Accredited Proficiency Tests
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 11220644
- Agency
-
Veterinary Services
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541380 Testing Laboratories and Services
- Place of performance
- Ames, Iowa 50010, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This Special Notice from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services concerns ISO 2024-2025 accredited proficiency tests. The notice provides details for sole source ISO 17043 accredited proficiency tests required and supplied by the VETQAS Quality Assurance Unit located in the United Kingdom.
The notice seeks to procure sole source ISO 17043 accredited proficiency tests from VETQAS, as no other accredited producer provides the appropriate testing schemes for the relevant test methods performed by the NVSL. Contractors must be the VETQAS Quality Assurance Unit due to the uniqueness of their testing schemes, test method relevance, strain range utilized, and ISO 17043 accreditation for the tests produced. It is important for demonstrating proficiency using an internationally accepted test and tracking test trends, as well as foreign assessments of quality assurance practices which could impact possible trade implications. The notice lists the VETQAS point of contact and has a due date of February 24, 2024 for the ISO 2024-2025 accredited proficiency tests.
Notice text
SOLE SOURCE
ISO 17043 accredited proficiency tests. The VETQAS-provided proficiency tests which are required. Specific characteristics of the VETQAS-provided proficiency tests that limit the availability to a sole source are uniqueness of the proficiency testing schemes offered, the test method for which they are relevant, and the range of strains utilized by the proficiency test provider. Additionally, the proficiency test provider must be ISO17043 accredited for the tests they produce. Only this suggested source can
furnish the requirements, to the exclusion of other sources, because no other ISO 17043 accredited producer supplies the appropriate proficiency testing schemes for the relevant test methods performed by the NVSL.
The NVSL also has a documented proficiency test history with the VETQAS program, which serves as a consistent measure of our demonstrated proficiency over time with a single provider, allowing for tracking of test trends and assessment of continuity of operations. It is vitally important due to possible trade implications and in foreign assessments of our quality assurance practices that we demonstrate proficiency utilizing a well-characterized and internationally accepted proficiency test provider.
Company: VETQAS Quality Assurance Unit
Company Address: The Elms, College Road, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire
LE12 5RB, United Kingdom Company Point of Contact and Phone Number: Vetqas@apha.gov.uk; +44 (0)3000 600003
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