Respiratory virus test kits

The Regional Health Contracting Office - Pacific at Fort Shafter, Hawaii intends to issue a solicitation on or about 1 Sep 16 for an indefinite quantity contract for Tripler Army Medical Center for respiratory virus identification test kits for influenza virus, adenovirus, parainfluenza, metapneumovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, enterovirus, cytomegalovirus, and Varicella-zoster virus in patient samples with the following salient characteristics: 1) shall be able to provide weekly live tissue tube cultures of MRC-5, A549 and primary rhesus monkey kidney cell lines; 2) shall be able to provide weekly live tissue shell vial cultures of MRC-5; 3) shall be able to provide the cell culture media to maintain all the cell lines; 4) shall be able to provide direct antibody conjugates for respiratory viral identification in cell cultures of: adenovirus, parainfluenza 1, parainfluenza 2, parainfluenza 3, influenza A, influenza B and respiratory syncytial virus; 5) shall be able to provide direct antibody conjugates for less than hour identification in patient nasopharyngeal samples for rapid clinical diagnoses of: respiratory viral identification of: adenovirus, parainfluenza, human metapneumovirus, influenza A, influenza B and respiratory syncytial virus; 6) shall be able to provide human metapneumovirus samples for proficiency assessments twice a year. This will be 100% set aside for Small Businesses. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code is 325413, size standard is 1,250 employees, and the successful vendor must be registered in the SAM with NAICS 325413. The solicitation will be available on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website. No paper copies of the solicitation will be issued, and no solicitation mailing list will be compiled.