Q515--New Five Year Blanket Purchase Agreement Salt Lake City Heart and Kidney Transplant Rejection Test Services and Reporting

RFQ Amendment 36C25926Q0162 0001

Responses to Solicitation Questions and Time Extension

RFQ 36C25926Q0162 is hereby extended until 01/30/2026 at 15:00pm MT.

Quotes are to be provided to Lindsey.Zwaagstra@va.gov no later than 15:00pm MT, January 30, 2026.

Responses to questions received are as follows:

Anticipated Volume & Utilization

Does the Government have historical annual test volume data for heart and kidney transplant biopsies?

Answer: Yes.

Does the listed quantity of 20 EA represent an annual estimate, a per-order estimate, or a placeholder for BPA establishment?

Answer: 20 Annual of each, estimated total over the life of the BPA is 100 of each test.

Is there an estimate of the number of Veterans or transplant centers expected to order under the BPA?

Answer: One Facility-Salt Lake City.

Clinical & Technical Scope

4. Is use of the Molecular Microscope Diagnostic System (MMDx) specifically required, or will clinically equivalent molecular rejection assays be considered?

Answer: MMDx is required.

Are FDA-cleared assays required or are CLIA-validated laboratory-developed tests acceptable?

Answer: CLIA-validated laboratory-developed tests are acceptable.

Are there minimum analytical or clinical validation requirements offerors must meet?

Answer: No.

7. What specimen types and minimum tissue requirements are expected?

Answer: Heart tissue bx: two bites 0.5mm or one slightly larger bite. Kidney tissue bx: 5 mm of biopsy.

8. What are the rejection criteria for suboptimal or insufficient specimens?

Answer: Subject to rejection if: Tissue rinsed with saline or placed in formalin; & Tissue should not be: cleaned up of blood/clots, left out in open air long (ideally

Request for Quote (RFQ) #: 36C25926Q0162

New Five-Year Blanket Purchase Agreement Salt Lake City Heart and Kidney Transplant Rejection Test Services and Reporting Per Statement of Work

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Offers are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. The Government reserves the right to make no award from this solicitation.

*The deadline for all questions is 16:00pm MT January 9, 2026.

All questions must be submitted in writing no later than the question cut-off date marked above. All questions will be answered officially through an amendment to the solicitation.

**Quotes are to be provided to Lindsey.Zwaagstra@va.gov no later than 16:00pm MT, January 23, 2026.

Quotes shall not be hand carried. Faxed quotes shall not be accepted. Emailed quotes are the only method of submitted quotes (4MB email limit). The Government reserves the right to make the award solely on initial Quotes received. Offerors bear the burden of ensuring that all portions of the offer (and any authorized amendments) reach the designated office before the deadline specified in the solicitation. This RFQ shall be completed in its entirety, and signed and dated, failure shall not be considered for award.

This is a Request for Quote (RFQ), and the solicitation number is 36C25926Q0162. The government anticipates awarding a firm-fixed price contract resulting from this solicitation.

This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2025-06 effective October 01, 2025.

The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 621511 Medical Laboratories with a business size standard of $41.5 Million. This solicitation is unrestricted.

List of Line Items;

Line Items

Description

Five Year Blanket Purchase Agreement

Quantity

Unit of Measure

Unit Price ($)

Total Price

($)

0001

Ordering Period 1

Heart and Kidney Transplant Rejection Testing and Reporting

Salt Lake City VA Health Care System

Period of Performance:

03/01/2026 02/28/2027

20

EA

0002

Ordering Period 2

Heart and Kidney Transplant Rejection Testing and Reporting

Salt Lake City VA Health Care System

Period of Performance:

03/01/2027 02/28/2028

20

EA

0003

Ordering Period 3

Heart and Kidney Transplant Rejection Testing and Reporting

Salt Lake City VA Health Care System

Period of Performance:

03/01/2028 02/28/2029

20

EA

0004

Ordering Period 4

Heart and Kidney Transplant Rejection Testing and Reporting

Salt Lake City VA Health Care System

Period of Performance:

03/01/2029 02/28/2030

20

EA

0005

Ordering Period 5

Heart and Kidney Transplant Rejection Testing and Reporting

Salt Lake City VA Health Care System

Period of Performance:

03/01/2030 02/28/2031

20

EA

Grand Total ($)

Description of Requirements for the items/Services to be acquired: The requirement is for heart and kidney transplant rejection test services and reporting, please reference attached statement of work (SOW).

Delivery and acceptance are to be F.O.B Destination (RFO 52.247-34) at the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS).

Salt Lake City VA Medical Center

500 Foothill Drive

Salt Lake City, UT, 84148

52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition

Any award made as a result of this solicitation will be made on an All or Nothing Basis.

State if quoted items are available and priced through offerors existing Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract, or VA-wide Acquisition Contract.

Offerors are warned against contacting any VA personnel other than the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist prior to placement of any award made resulting from this RFQ. If such contact occurs and found to be prejudicial to competing contactors, the offeror making such contact may be excluded from award considerations.

All proprietary information shall be clearly and properly marked. If the Offeror submits annexes, documentation, attachments or the like, not specifically required by this solicitation, such will count against the Offeror s page limitations unless otherwise indicated in the specific volume instructions below.

All information shall be confined to the appropriate file. The offeror shall confine submissions to essential matters, sufficient to define the quote and provide an adequate basis for evaluation. Offerors are responsible for including sufficient details, in a concise manner, to permit a complete and accurate evaluation of each quote.

ADDENDUM to RFO 52.212-1 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS COMMERCIAL

Submission of quote shall include the following volumes: (I) Technical capability or quality offered to meet the Government requirement; (II) Price; and (III) Past Performance.

Volume I - Technical capability or quality to meet the Government requirement.

The offeror shall submit its quote demonstrating how it meets all of the requirements of the statement of work (SOW) and solicitation, to include verification of turnaround times required for specimens, verification testing will include T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR) and antibody mediated rejection (ABMR), and how reports will be provided to Salt Lake City VA Medical Center.

Volume II Price

Price - The offeror shall complete the pricing schedule provided in Section (v) above: Price/Cost Schedule.

Volume III Past Performance

Offerors shall provide a maximum of three (3) recent and relevant past efforts (as defined below) to demonstrate their ability to perform the proposed work. If a completed Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) evaluation is available, it shall be submitted. If not providing CPARS evaluation past performance references must include contract numbers, amount of contract award, point of contact with email address, telephone numbers and other relevant information, and a description of product/work performed under the contract. To be relevant, the effort must be similar in nature of work, size, magnitude, complexity, and scope of this procurement. To be recent past performance is defined as not more than five years from the RFQ release date of this solicitation.

Offeror must list any/all subcontractors (and their size standard IAW NAICS 621511) if they will be utilized for this requirement AND what they will be performing.

(End of Addendum to 52.212-1)

52.212-2, Evaluation--Commercial Items applies to this acquisition.

ADDENDUM to RFO 52.212-2 EVALUATION COMMERCIAL ITEMS:

The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the offeror responsible whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government considering price and other factors.

The following factors shall be used to evaluate quotations:

Factor I. Technical capability or quality offered to meet the Government requirements to include verification of turnaround times required for specimens, verification testing will include T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR) and antibody mediated rejection (ABMR), and how reports will be provided to Salt Lake City VA Medical Center.

Factor II. Price

Factor III. Past Performance

Evaluation Approach. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible Offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The Government will use comparative analysis. The following factors will be used to evaluate offers:

Factor I. Technical capability or quality offered to meet the Government requirement: The quotation will be evaluated to the extent to which it can meet and/or exceed the Government s requirements as outlined in the solicitation and based on the information requested in the instructions to quoters section of the solicitation.

Factor II. Price: The Government will evaluate the price by adding the total of all line-item prices, including all options. The Government may use various price analysis techniques and procedures to make a price reasonableness determination. Offers that do not meet or exceed the technical capability or quality of the service offered to meet the Government requirement, as stated in Factor 1, shall not be selected regardless of price.

Factor III. Past Performance: The Government will evaluate on how well the offeror identified performance relates to the requirement procured under the SOW for this procurement to determine relevancy. How well the offeror performed on identified contracts shall be used to assess performance confidence.

If offeror does not provide all volumes as outlined in RFO 52.212-1 Instructions, the offer may be considered non-responsive.

(End of Addendum to 52.212-2)

52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items applies to this acquisition Any inconsistencies in this solicitation or contract shall be resolved by giving precedence IAW 52.212-4(r). By submitting a quote, the offeror understands that quotes will not be referenced in 1449 and clauses incorporated in the solicitation will dictate the contract. All offerors shall comply with all applicable Federal, State and local laws, executive orders, rules and regulations applicable to its performance under the contract IAW RFO 52.212-4(q). The Government reserves the right to deny requests for clause changes that are not included in this solicitation should the request be inconsistent with the RFO or VAAR.

The following RFO clauses are incorporated by reference:

Applicable (X)

Number

Title

Source

X

52.203-6 with Alt I

Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government

Statute

X

52.203-17

Contractor Employee Whistleblower Rights

Statute

X

52.203-19

Prohibition on Requiring Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements

Statute

X

52.204-9

Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel

Other

X

52.204-13

System for Award Management Maintenance

Statute

X

52.209-6

Protecting the Government s Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment

Statute

X

52.209-9

Updates of Publicly Available Information Regarding Responsibility Matters

Statute

X

52.209-10

Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations

Statute

X

52.219-4

Notice of Price Evaluation Preference for HUBZone Small Business Concerns

Statute

X

52.219-8

Utilization of Small Business Concerns

Statute

X

52.222-3

Convict Labor

EO

X

52.222-19

Child Labor Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies

EO

X

52.222-35

Equal Opportunity for Veterans

Statute

X

52.222-36

Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities

Statute

X

52.222-37

Employment Reports on Veterans

Statute

X

52.222-40

Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act

EO

X

52.222-41

Service Contract Labor Standards

Statute

X

52.222-42

Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires

Employee Class Monetary Wage-Fringe Benefits

_____________ __________________________

_____________ __________________________

Statute

X

52.222-43

Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Labor Standards-Price Adjustment (Multiple Year and Option Contracts)

Statute

X

52.222-50

Combating Trafficking in Persons

Statute

X

52.222-54

Employment Eligibility Verification

EO

X

52.222-62

Paid Sick Leave Under Executive Order 13706

EO

X

52.223-9

Estimate of Percentage of Recovered Material Content for EPA-Designated Items

Statute

X

52.223-11

Ozone-Depleting Substances and High Global Warming Potential Hydrofluorocarbons

Statute

X

52.223-20

Aerosols

Statute

X

52.223-21

Foams

Statute

X

52.223-23

Sustainable Products and Services

Statute

X

52.224-3 with Alt I

Privacy Training, with Alternate I

Statute

X

52.226-8

Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving

EO

X

52.227-14

Rights in Data-General (MAY 2014)

Statute

X

52.232-29

Terms for Financing of Commercial Products and Commercial Services

Statute

X

52.232-33

Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer System for Award Management

Statute

X

52.232-40

Providing Accelerated Payments to Small Business Subcontractors

Statute

X

52.233-3

Protest After Award

Statute

X

52.233-4

Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim

Statute

X

52.240-91

Security Prohibitions and Exclusions

Statute

X

52.240-92

Security Requirements

Other

X

52.240-93

 Basic Safeguarding of Covered Contractor Information Systems

 Statute

X

52.244-6

Subcontracts for Commercial Products and Commercial Services

Statute

Additional contract requirements or terms and conditions:

52.217-8 Option to Extend Services (NOV 1999)

The Government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to the prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extension of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the Contractor within 30 days.

852.252-70, Provisions and Clauses Applicable to VA Acquisition of Commercial Items:

VAAR Clauses are incorporated by reference as follows:

VAAR 852.203-70

Commercial Advertising (MAY 2018)

VAAR 852.204-71

Information and Information Systems Security (FEB 2023)

VAAR 852.211-76

Liquidated Damages-Reimbursement for Data Breach Costs (FEB 2023)

VAAR 852.222-71

Compliance with Executive Order 13899. (DEVIATION) (APR 2025)

VAAR 852.232-72

Electronic Submission of Payment Requests (NOV 2018)

VAAR 852.237-70

Indemnification and Medical Liability Insurance (OCT 2019)

VAAR 852.242-71

Administrative Contracting Officer (OCT 2020)

VAAR Provisions are incorporated as follows:

VAAR 852.209-70

Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCT 2020)

VAAR 852.215-72

Notice of Intent to Re-solicit (OCT 2019)

VAAR 852.233-70

Protest Content/Alternative Dispute Resolution (OCT 2018)

VAAR 852.233-71

Alternate Protest Procedure (OCT 2018)

RFO 52.252-1 Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference

The following provisions or clauses incorporated by reference in this solicitation must be completed by the offeror or prospective contractor and submitted with the quotation or offer. Copies of these provisions or clauses are available on the Internet at the web sites provided in the provision at RFO 52.252-1, Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference. Copies may also be obtained from the contracting officer.

http://www.acquisition.gov/far/index.html

https://www.acquisition.gov/vaar

The following RFO provisions are to be incorporated by reference:

Applicable (X)

Number

Title

Source

X

52.203-11

Certification and Disclosure Regarding Payments to Influence Certain Federal Transactions

Statute

X

52.203-18

Prohibition on Contracting with Entities that Require Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements-Representation

Statute

X

52.204-7

System for Award Management Registration

Statute

X

52.229-11

Tax on Certain Foreign Procurements Notice and Representation

Statute

The Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS) does not apply.

Date and Time offers are due to Lindsey.Zwaagstra@va.gov by 16:00pm MT, January 23, 2026.

Name and email of the individual to contact for information regarding the solicitation:

Lindsey Zwaagstra

Lindsey.Zwaagstra@va.gov