SPECIAL NOTICE
65 -- Blood Products
- Notice Date
- 11/6/2008
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 621991
— Blood and Organ Banks
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs, Minneapolis VAMC, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs;VA Midwest Health Care System;Attention: Network Contract Manager;One Veterans Drive, Building 68;Minneapolis MN 55417
- ZIP Code
- 55417
- Archive Date
- 12/21/2008
- Point of Contact
- Corinne NygrenContract Specialist<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a notice of a proposed contract action published to notify potential sources that the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Minneapolis, MN contracting office intends to issue a sole source award to the American Red Cross for the purchase of blood and blood products. The supply of blood and blood products is used to meet transfusion needs, and is critical in the care and treatment of patients at the VAMC's in Minneapolis and St. Cloud, MN. The American Red Cross is the only blood supplier in the Twin Cities metro and St. Cloud area that has the capability and capacity to supply the VAMC's with a consistent, reliable and steady supply of blood and blood products. The blood supplier to the VAMC's needs to have the ability to provide us with two scheduled daily deliveries Monday - Friday, and emergency deliveries which means delivery within 60 minutes of notification. The proposed contract action is for supplies for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. Numbered Note 22 applies. Therefore, this sole source award is being made pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other company will satisfy agency requirements. The period of performance for this contract is April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010 with the option to extend the effective period for one (1) additional year. The estimated value of this two (2) year contract is $4,500,000.00. Any inquires to this sole source acquisition must be submitted in writing to the attention of Corinne Nygren at The Department of Veterans Affairs, One Veterans Drive, Contracting Unit, Building 68, Minneapolis, MN 55417, fax 612-467-2072 or by email to Corinne.Nygren@va.gov. Requests by telephone will not be honored.
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