Q515-- Anatomic Pathology Services for Cheyenne, and Sheridan VA Medical Center

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION: The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office (NCO) 19 Rocky Mountain Acquisition Center, 6162 S. Willow Drive, Suite 300, Greenwood Village CO 80111 intends to solicit sources to enter into a firm-fixed price definitive contract to provide Anatomic Pathology Services for Cheyenne VA Medical Center located 1360 E Pershing BLVD, Cheyenne, WY 82001, and Sheridan VA Medical Center located at 1898 Fort Road Sheridan, WY 82801.

Contractor shall provide anatomic pathology patient results. Contractor shall be available to

respond to requests to frozen sections and fine needle aspirates- 24/7. Government will make.

every attempt to pre-schedule procedures if possible. Contractor shall be available 24 hour, 7.

days/week, 52 weeks/year availability to the Medical and Laboratory staff of the VA Medical

Center, primarily in the areas of blood bank and anatomic pathology. The contractor(s) shall

be available, on an on-call basis to respond for emergency cases within one hour or less of

notification. Consultation with medical technologists on various clinical questions which

develop in the laboratory departments concerning hematology, coagulation, microbiology,

urinalysis, chemistry, immunochemistry, and blood bank issues to include review of

hematology slides for abnormal and difficult cellular determinations and recommended.

medical follow up by the practitioners.

This solicitation is only open to small businesses.

The solicitation package will be available for download on or about August 31, 2023, and proposals shall be due 7 days after the issuance of the solicitation, and no later than 10:00 a.m. mountain time. The applicable NAICS code is 621511- Medical Laboratories with a small business size standard of 41.5 Million. However, the small business size standard for a concern that submits an offer, other than on a construction or service acquisition, but proposes to furnish an end item that it did not itself manufacture, process, or produce is 500 employees, or 150 employees for information technology value-added resellers under NAICS code 621511. This solicitation will be open to all small business concerns. The solicitation reference is 36C25923Q0853-Anatomic Pathology Services and should be referenced in all correspondence/ inquiries. The locations for services are stated above. All information for this solicitation will be posted on the Contracting Opportunities (CO) website at www.betasam.gov. No hard copies of the solicitation will be provided. Any amendments to this solicitation will be available at this website and offerors are advised that they are responsible for obtaining amendments to this solicitation at this website prior to the time of responding to the solicitation. This is the pre-solicitation notice only.