Q301--New Reference Lab Testing | Legacy VISN 15

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Integrated Service Network 15, seeks referral laboratory testing services under solicitation 36C25526R0066, with questions due November 6, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. CST and proposals due December 4, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. CST. The procurement is unrestricted (Set Aside: No Set-Aside Used) and Network Contracting Office 15 in Leavenworth, Kansas is issuing it as an IDIQ for commercial products and services. The attachment lists a base period of January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2027, four one-year options through December 31, 2031, a guaranteed minimum of $10,000, and a maximum of $49.0 million.

Work covers 12 participating VA Medical Centers and Health Care Centers across VISN 15 in Missouri, Kansas, and Indiana. The Financial Services Center in Austin, Texas administers the contract.

The contractor must maintain College of American Pathologists accreditation and CLIA certification across 23 test categories, from histocompatibility to cytogenetics. Services include pre-analytic processing, analytical testing, result interpretation, consultative services, and specimen transportation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The contractor bears all transportation and specimen handling costs and provides supplies and equipment at no additional charge.

On-site processors are key personnel at four VAMCs (St. Louis John Cochran, Columbia, Kansas City, and Marion). They require background checks, PIV cards, and health requirements including tuberculosis testing, measles/mumps/rubella, varicella, Tdap, influenza, and hepatitis B vaccination series. The key personnel roster lists one primary and one alternate processor at St. Louis John Cochran, two primary and one alternate at Columbia, one primary at Marion, and two primary and one alternate at the Kansas VA Medical Center.

Quality standards require fewer than three lost specimens and fewer than three missed courier pickups per quarter. The QASP adds modified results below 0.02% per quarter and fewer than six published turnaround-time delays per month. The lost-specimen protocol includes compensation frameworks for negligence-classified losses.

Pricing is by unit price per test across 576 sub-line items, with STAT availability, CPT codes, country of manufacture, and testing site required for each line. Quantities range up to 2,543 units per test.

Service Contract Act wage determinations cover Posey, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties in Indiana, Bollinger and Cape Girardeau counties in Missouri, and Illinois and Missouri counties including St. Louis and St. Louis City. Mandated health and welfare benefits are $5.55 per hour.

The package includes an organizational conflict of interest certification, an immigration and E-Verify certification, a contractor rules of behavior agreement, and a past performance questionnaire due to michael.carson1@va.gov by December 4, 2026.