Provide laboratory services as needed for execution of the Regional Occupational Health Program (ROHC) throughout the continental U. S. , but primarily within the Corps of Engineers' South Atlantic Division (SAD)

Market Research and Sources Sought Notice for information on capability and availability of potential contractors interested in proposing on an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Contract for Laboratory Services for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division (SAD), covering the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and occasionally network locations throughout continental U.S. The proposed contract duration will be for a base year plus four (4) option years.

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS and is not a solicitation announcement. NO PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED OR ACCEPTED WITH THIS SYNOPSIS.

The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to determine the availability of qualified contractors to perform these services to include Certified Small Businesses, HUBZone Certified Small Business Concerns, Section 8(a) contractors, Service Disabled Veteran owned Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Women Owned Small Businesses and Large Business Concerns. The primary North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code applicable to this requirement is 621511. The small business standard for which is a concern, including its affiliates whose average annual gross revenues does not exceed $30.0 M for the past three years.

Responses to this Sources Sought Synopsis will be used by the government in making appropriate acquisition decisions.

Laboratory services under this contract will be provided to federal employees of participating agencies in accordance with the SAD Regional Occupational Health Center (ROHC), Public Health Regulations, and other directives/protocols. The Regional Occupational Health Center is located in the Federal Building, 109 St. Joseph Street, Mobile, AL. The ROHC will provide direction for laboratory services within the Region. It is required that the laboratory services have courier service in the region for same day pickup of specimens in and around the various District Offices: Mobile - AL (Occupational Health Clinic - on site), Jacksonville - FL (Occupational Health Clinic- on site), Savannah- GA (Occupational Health Clinic - on site), Wilmington - NC and Charleston - SC.

Responses are requested with the following information, which shall not exceed a total of five (5) pages:

1. Offerors' name, address, points of contact with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

2. Business size/classification to include any designations as Certified Small Business, HUBZone Certified Small Business Concern, Section 8(a) contractor, Service Disabled Veteran owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, Women Owned Small Business and Large Business Concern shall be indicated on first page of submission.

3. Documentation should be submitted with the following considerations:

a. Describe how your laboratory could provide same day courier service to pick up lab specimens and return reports within 24 hours to respective physician's offices located in Enclosure 1.

b. Discuss capability of providing daily test results for employee/patient via a uni-direction interface, which allows laboratory to electronically transmit results into the ROHC's Occupational Health software Medgate. The results need to be based on HL7 v2.2 and v2.3 standards.

c. Describe your ability to establish codes for all physicians' offices on the lab request form.

d. Describe your network of U.S collection sites.

e. Confirm your capability of combining the lab panels that we are requesting as follows:

A. Panel 1 (Standard Lab Panel)

1. Chemistry profile to include Glucose, Uric Acid, BUN; Creatinine, Serum; BUN/Creatinine ratio, Sodium, Potassium, Chloride, Calcium, Phosphorus; Protein, Serum; Osmolality (calculated); Albumin, Globulin, A/G ratio; Bilirubin, total; Alkaline Phosphatase, LDH, SGOT, SGPT, GGT, and T4 & TSH.

2. Lipids to include Cholesterol, total; Triglyceride, HDL, VLDL, LDL ; T. Chol/HDL ratio and
Estimated Cardiac Risk.

3. Complete Blood Count to include WBC, RBC, Hemoglobin, Hematocrit, MCV, MCH, MCHC,
Platelets, Polys, Lymphs, Monocytes, Eos, Baso, and Differential.

B. Panel 1A - Standard lab panel with the addition of a Hemoglobin A1C for diabetics.

C. Panel 2 - Standard panel 1 lab with addition of PSA. - This panel is usually recommended for men above the age of 50 years and for men 45 years or older with a high risk for prostate cancer.

D. Panel 2A - Panel 2 with addition of hemoglobin A1C for diabetics.

Responses should be submitted via email to Sophia Chin, Contract Specialist, at sophia.m.chin@usace.army.mil. In the subject line of your email state: Response to Laboratory Services. You may also mail submittals or send overnight courier to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, 109 St. Joseph Street, Mobile, AL 36602-3620. ATTN: Plans Room, Contracting Division, Sophia Chin/CT-S. Submittals are due on Thursday, 11 April 2013, at 4:00 p.m. CDT. No responses will be accepted by fax. Submittals will not be returned. Telephonic responses will not be honored.

Note 1: This is not a Request for Proposal, only a Request for Information. No award will result from this Sources Sought.

Note 2: This sources sought synopsis is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information solicited.

Note 3: Large Businesses need not respond.

Note 4: All advertisements of Mobile District projects will be through the Federal Business Opportunities
(FedBizOpps). Detailed information on this and other Mobile District Projects (Ordering Solicitations, Points of Contact, Synopsis of Work, etc) are available on the internet at http://www.fbo.gov.

Note 5: Request for Information (RFI) specific to this sources sought notice may be answered by sending an email to sophia.m.chin@usace.army.mil and jacalyn.m.jenkins@usace.army.mil. Other forms of communicating RFIs to the government will not be honored.