SOURCES SOUGHT
65 -- Autologous & Directed Donations Collection & Testing
- Notice Date
- 7/17/2019
- Notice Type
- Synopsis
- NAICS
- 325412
— Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;Network Contracting Office 16;Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center;2002 Holcombe BLVD;Houston TX 77030 4298
- ZIP Code
- 77030 4298
- Solicitation Number
- 36C25620Q0008
- Response Due
- 7/23/2019
- Archive Date
- 8/2/2019
- Point of Contact
- Oney.kelly@va.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 16 - HOUSTON In Support of the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 36C25620Q0008 BACKGROUND: The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Medical Center (MEDVAMC) located in Houston, TX requires a base (12 months) plus 4 option year contract for Autologous Donations, Directed Donations, Emergency Blood and Related Products & Services that are in accordance with standards established by recognized accrediting agencies such as the American Association of Blood Banks, the Food and Drug Administration, and the College of American Pathologists. Blood/blood components and testing must be available 24 hours per day, seven days per week regardless of holidays. Items listed below shall be drawn, processed, tested, typed and packed as specified in the following sections in suitable containers, and delivered f.o.b. destination within consignee s premises to the MEDVAMC, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service (113), Rm. 3A-121, 2002 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030 as requested by authorized VA Blood Bank personnel. Directed Donations are units of blood directly solicited from family or friends by the intended recipient. Some patients anticipating surgery prefer to receive blood donated by relatives or friends. Autologous Donations can occur if the Veteran is going to be having a surgery that will be scheduled several weeks in advance. This is a transfusion in which you receive your own blood which was drawn prior to the Veteran s surgery. Autologous Donations, Directed Donations, Emergency Blood and Related Products & Services will be delivered on an as needed basis, with orders being called in by MEDVAMC s Path & Laboratory personnel. Orders will be requested from the below listing: Abbreviation Description DIRECTED Directed Service Charge (Gulf Coast Unit) AUTOLOGOUS Autologous Service Charge (Gulf Coast Unit) NMPX NMPX NAT Multiplex NAT Multiplex ARDP American Rare Donor Program Fee AG NEG GR2 Antigen Negative Component - C, e, Lea, or Leb (each antigen, per unit) AG NEG GR3 Antigen Negative Component - c, Fya, Fyb, S or P1 (each antigen, per unit) AG NEG GR1 Antigen Negative Component - E, Cw, A1, K, Kpa, M or N (each antigen, per unit) AG NEG GR4 Antigen Negative Component - Jka or Jkb (each antigen, per unit) AG NEG RARE Antigen Negative Component - Rare Antiven (each antigen, per unit) AG NEG GR5 Antigen Negative Component s (per unit) CELL SEP Cell Separation Abbreviation Description CRYOPOOL Cryoprecipitate AHF, Pooled Cryo Cryoprecipitate AHF, Single PLSCRYORED Plasma, Cryoprecipitate Reduced FFP Plasma, Fresh Frozen FP24 Plasma, Frozen w/in 24 hours PPLT Platelets, Apheresis Leukocyte-Reduced PPLT-IRR Platelets, Apheresis Leukocyte-Reduced, Irradiated PROCURERARE, IN Rare Unit Procurement, In Region LRBC Red Blood Cells, Leukoreduced LR FRBC Red Blood Cells, Leukoreduced, Frozen LRBC-IRR Red Blood Cells, Leukoreduced, Irradiated LR WRBC Red Blood Cells, LR, Washed RBC Red Blood Cells, Non-Leukoreduced WB Whole Blood, Leukoreduced PICK UP Specimen Pickup Charge WKDYDEL Weekday after-hours delivery fee (in addition to delivery fee above) Monday-Friday 5:00pm-8:00am WKENDDEL Weekend delivery fee (in addition to delivery fee above) 12:00am Saturday-11:59pm Sunday DEL Delivery Fee PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Base Period: Oct. 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 2020 Option Year 1: Oct. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021 Option Year 2: Oct. 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2022 Option Year 3: Oct. 1, 2022 to Sept. 30, 2023 Option Year 4: Oct. 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2024 REQUESTED RESPONSES: The intent of this Request for Information is to establish sources to define the procurement strategy (e.g set-aside, sole source, unrestricted) for a solicitation that VA intends to post soon. Interested contractors are requested to respond in accordance with the following: Please respond to this RFI if you can provide the exact brand name products listed in the table in the background section above. In the response please cite your business size status. If you have an existing GSA or VA, Federal Supply Schedule contract, please include the contract details in your response. DISTRIBUTORS: You must provide proof that you are an authorized distributor. VA does not accept grey market items. Please respond to this RFI if you can provide supplies that may be determined EQUIVALENT to the products listed in the table in the background section above. Please provide details on the proposed EQUIVALENT products such as Manufacturer Name, Part Number, and Description. If you have an existing GSA or VA, Federal Supply Schedule contract, please include the contract details in your response. DISTRIBUTORS: You must provide proof that you are an authorized distributor. VA does not accept grey market items. Please note that VA is particularly interested in determining the availability of Small Business Manufacturers. If your company is a small business manufacturer of potentially equivalent items, please respond to this RFI. Vendors are requested to submit estimated market research pricing with their responses. The estimated pricing will be considered when determining the procurement strategy for the future solicitation. (e.g. if CO determines that capable small businesses cannot provide fair and reasonable pricing, then the solicitation will not be set-aside). Please note that if no responses to this notice are received, from either authorized distributors of the cited brand name nor from manufacturers marketing a potentially equivalent brand, then this action will be sole sourced to the manufacturer cited in the Background section above. CONTACT INFORMATION AND RESPONSE DUE DATE: Please email all responses to Oney.kelly@va.gov. Please respond to this RFI no later than July 23, 2019. DISCLAIMER: This RFI is issued solely for informational and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Department of Veterans Affairs to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (17-JUL-2019); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT 877-472-3779 or fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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- Place of Performance
- Zip Code: 77030
- Record
- SN05372564-F 20190719/190717230022 (fbodaily.com)
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