Urgent Anatomical Pathology Laboratory Services and Dermatopahtogy

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. It is neither a solicitation announcement nor a request for proposals or quotes and does not obligate the Government to award a contract. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. Responses to this sources sought must be in writing. The purpose of this sources sought announcement is for market research to make appropriate acquisition decisions and to gain knowledge of potential qualified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses, Veteran Owned Small Businesses, 8(a), HubZone, other Small and Large Businesses interested and capable of providing the services described below. Documentation of technical expertise must be presented in sufficient detail for the Government to determine that your company possesses the necessary functional area expertise and experience to compete for this acquisition.

Responses to this notice shall include the following:

(a) company name

(b) address

(c) point of contact

(d) phone, fax, and email

(e) DUNS number

(f) Cage Code

(g) Tax ID Number

(h) Type of business, e.g. Services Disabled Veteran Owned small Business, Veteran-owned small business, 8(a), HUBZone, Women Owned Small Business, Small disadvantaged business, or Small Business HUBZone business or Large Business

(i)If an Offeror proposes to use any subcontractors, joint ventures, or teaming arrangements the Offeror shall include the percentage and type of work the subcontractor will accomplish to include their certifications. (Any subcontractors, joint ventures, or teaming partners shall have the required certifications as described in the sources sought notice) and

(j) must provide a capability statement that addresses the organizations qualifications and ability to perform as a contractor for the work described below.



DRAFT STATEMENT OF WORK

Urgent Anatomical Pathology Laboratory Services and Dermatopahtogy



The Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) located at 3601 S 6th Ave, Tucson AZ 85723 is seeking a potential qualified contractor to provide laboratory services such as: special stains, electron microscopy, other anatomic pathology procedures, dermatopathology consults for SAVAHCS patients.

Required turn around time for the lab services is 48-72 hours.

Consults must be performed by Licensed Pathologist

Any prospective contractors must be College of American Pathologists (CAP) accredited. The Contractor shall maintain accurate specimen and patient identification, provide testing as requested, and accurately transmit results. Compliance is monitored by incident and error tracking as part of the SAVAHCS Laboratory regular QA process. Each prospective contractor must show proof of accreditation in their submittal documents at the time of responding to this Sources Sought announcement.

Preliminary anatomic diagnoses shall be faxed to SAVAHCS within two (2) working days of the receipt of the body. Greater than 50% of the non-complicated cases shall be completed and reports received within thirty (30) business days. 100% of final reports shall be received by SAVAHCS within sixty (60) business days.

The contractor is subject to provision of the Privacy Act of 1974.



The contractor shall keep confidential the contents of all medical documents entrusted to its care. All contractor personnel shall observe the requirements imposed on sensitive data and information by law, Federal requirements, VA statutes and policy, VHA policy and guidelines and the associated requirements to ensure appropriate screening of all personnel.



PRIVACY AWARENESS TRAINING:

The contractor's staff and their subcontractor staff assigned to work under the agreement are required to receive annual training on patient privacy as established by HIPAA statutes. Training must meet VHA's and the Department of Health and Human Services Standards for Privacy of Individually-identifiable health information.



The following schedule represents those tests which have a high probability of being ordered. Estimated quantities for the below are unknown due to the fluid nature of laboratory testing.



80500 CP Consultant

88348 Electron Microscopy

88346 Immunoflourescent Study

88342 Immunophenotypic Micro exam

88321 Surg path Consult on slides

88313 Special stains, Group II

88307 Surgical Pathology, complex

88305 Surgical pathology,G&M

88314 HistoChemical staining

88312 Special Stains gr 1

88108 Cytopath Concentration

88365 Tissue in Situ Hybridization

88309 Surg path G&M/complex

88323 Surg path cons/rep

88187 Flow Cytometry/Read,2-8 markers

88188 Flow cytometry/Read, 9-15

88189 Flow cytometry/Read, 16 &> markers

88291 Cytogentics & ,molecular cytogenetics

88304 Level III-Surh path gross/micro exam

88347 Immunonfluor study ea Antib-Indirect

88360 Tumor Immunohistochem/Manual

Dermatopathology Services





Important information: The Government is not obligated to nor will it pay for or reimburse any costs associated with responding to this sources sought synopsis request. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. The Government will in no way be bound to this information if any solicitation is issued. The VA is mandated by Public Law 109-461 to consider a total set-aside for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business set aside. However, if response by Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business firms proves inadequate, an alternate set-aside or full and open competition may be determined. No sub-contracting opportunity is anticipated. The North American Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 621511 ($32.5).



Notice to potential offerors: All offerors who provide goods or services to the United States Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov and complete Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA). Additionally, all Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses or Veteran Owned Businesses who respond to a solicitation on this project must be registered with the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Veterans Enterprise VetBiz Registry located at http://vip.vetbiz.gov. All interested Offerors should submit information by e-mail, mail or ground carrier to: Southern AZ VA HealthCare System, 3601 S. 6th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85741 or by e-mail to Lillian.Sepulveda@va.gov. All information submissions to be marked Attn: L. Danielle Provencio, Contracting Officer (9-90C) and should be received no later than 3:30 pm Pacific Time on June 10, 2015. After review of the responses to this announcement, the Government intends to proceed with the acquisition and a subsequent solicitation will be published.