Sterile Compounding Services

The Department of Veterans Affairs' South Texas Veterans Health Care System seeks testing and certification services for sterile compounding facilities under solicitation 36C25727Q0032, with proposals now due November 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM CST. The procurement is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) set-aside. Amendment 0001, issued by the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System on November 2, 2026, extended the response deadline to allow time for vendor questions, and a subsequent amendment will answer those questions. Contracting Officer Shannon Hodgson signed the amendment.

Place of performance is the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital Pharmacy Service in San Antonio, Texas. The contractor certifies primary engineering controls (biological safety cabinets and laminar airflow workstations) and secondary engineering controls (buffer rooms and anterooms) semi-annually under CETA CAG-003-2026 standards, using CETA National Board of Testing certified technicians and NSF/ANSI 49 accredited biosafety cabinet field certifiers. Contractors must be registered with CETA as Registered Certified Professionals for Sterile Compounding Facilities. The contractor must maintain current ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for environmental microbiology laboratory analysis and demonstrate testing experience from at least two separate state or federal government medical facility contracts within the last five years. The contractor provides all parts, labor, equipment, and travel, including routine wear-and-tear component replacement. Reports are due within 14 days of certification completion or sample collection.

Scope includes approximately 2 hazardous drug C-SCAs annually, 4 biological safety cabinets, 5 laminar airflow workstations twice annually, 84 monthly viable samples across 7 units, 6 hazardous drug residue samples semi-annually, and 160 personnel qualifications with media fill and gloved fingertip testing. The base period runs January 11, 2027 through January 10, 2028, followed by four optional one-year periods. Pricing is firm-fixed, with firm-fixed unit pricing covering all labor, overhead, and materials.

The Government will evaluate offers on Technical Capability, Past Performance, and Price, with award to the responsible offeror whose offer represents the best value. Offerors must submit three separate volumes covering each factor. The NAICS code is 541380, Testing Laboratories and Services, and the PSC is Q301, Reference Laboratory Testing.