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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF APRIL 19, 2014 FBO #4529
DOCUMENT

66 -- 630-14-2-156-0094 INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE FOR COLORED GRAM STAINER - Attachment

Notice Date

4/17/2014
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

339112 — Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;James J. Peters VA Medical Center;Network Contracting Office 3 (10N3NCO);130 West Kingsbridge Road;Bronx NY 10468-3904
 

ZIP Code

10468-3904
 

Solicitation Number

VA24314Q0850
 

Archive Date

5/17/2014
 

Point of Contact

ALETA JENNETTE-CONTRACT SPECIALIST
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

TITLE: 66-- NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE SOL: VA24314Q0850 DUE: 04/25/2014 SET ASIDE: N/A NAICS: 334516 POP STATE: Not specified AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs VA New York campus Healthcare System; 800 Poly Place, Brooklyn NY 11209-7104 POC: Aleta Jennette Aleta.Jennette@va.gov mailto:aleta.jennette@va.gov DESCRIPTION: NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT TO Biomerieux, Inc. for a standing Order for 1 Year of Colored Gram 12 Slide Stainer. Market research was conducted and determined that Biomerieux, Inc. is the only vendor capable of providing the items necessary that meet the requirements On Contract. Automated Color Gram 12 Slide Stainer Background: Automated Gram Stainer needed at Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service - Brooklyn Microbiology lab for the gram staining many types of specimens which provides rapid, standardized results. 1.Sample handling. Clinical samples representing bone, fluids, respiratory secretions, tissue, vaginal secretions, and wounds. Smear from each set are methanol fixed and stained using automated laboratory standard or manual Gram staining. 2.Staining. Once the operator places the slide vertically into the cuvette and selects the desired protocol, the entire procedure is automated. Protocols included short and long cycles, entered by the operator based on the thickness of the material on the slide. The timing of each reagent can be adjusted if necessary. For each protocol, reagents fill the cuvette in order (crystal violet, iodine, decolorizer, and counterstain, with appropriate washing steps). The front and back surfaces of the cuvette fit closely to the slide so that capillary action helps to wet the slide surface and the process utilizes very low volumes of stain. An optical system sights down the surface of the slide to control the timing for each reagent. When the staining process is complete, the operator removes the slide and blots it dry on paper towels. All reagents are collected into a plastic bottle that is emptied into hazardous waste every few days; the instrument does not require connection to a drainage outlet. A larger bottle could be used to extend the time before emptying is necessary. 3.Observation. All slides were examined with a compound light microscope at ×10 and then at ×100 under oil immersion. The presence of any visible bacteria, fungal elements, and other cells, including polymorphonuclear leukocytes, red blood cells, and squamous epithelial cells are recorded. 4.Results. While manual staining is faster overall than staining with an autostainer, automated staining is advantageous in that it produces uniform results, staining each slide for precisely the same amount of time, and requires less actual hands-on time. In a busy clinical setting, it is beneficial to be able to simply place the slide in the provided cuvette, select the desired protocol, and return 4 min later to retrieve the stained slide. Additionally, automated staining conserves reagents and reduces the lab technicians' contact with both the specimen and the reagents, reducing the opportunity for contamination. This Notice of Intent is not a request for Proposals or Quotations. No solicitation document exists and no telephone or email inquiries will be accepted. No contract award will be made on the basis of proposals, or quotations received in response to this notice. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement, and should furnish detailed data concerning their capabilities to provide services sought including pricing data and technical data sufficient enough to determine that a comparable source to the government is available. The government may consider all Expressions of Interest received prior to April 25, 2014. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Responses to this notice must be emailed to Aleta.Jennette@va.gov and received by 10:00AM EST on April 25, 2014. Submitters are responsible for ensuring their EOI reaches the designated contracting officer on-time.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/BroVANAP/VAMD/VA24314Q0850/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA243-14-Q-0850 VA243-14-Q-0850.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=1313801&FileName=VA243-14-Q-0850-000.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=1313801&FileName=VA243-14-Q-0850-000.docx

 

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Record

SN03341717-W 20140419/140417235206-1a3f086efcbc9703288f10556eec0c88 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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