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The Regional Health Contracting Office-Central, JBSA FT Sam Houston, Texas is issuing this sources sought as a means of conducting market research to identify parties that have an interest in and the ... The Regional Health Contracting Office-Central, JBSA FT Sam Houston, Texas is issuing this sources sought as a means of conducting market research to identify parties that have an interest in and the resources to support a requirement for COAGULATON SYSTEM at Weed Army Community Hospital, Fort Irwin, CA 92310. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 325413. This will be for a Base and Three (3) option years starting October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. If your organization has the capacity and authority to provide the following: 1. This contract will be a monthly lease contract for an instrument and reagents. 2. Contract will consist of a base year plus up to four renewable option years. 3. Contract may be cancelled by either party by giving the other party a thirty day notice. SYSTEM CAPABILITIES 4. The system is capable of analyzing human blood or plasma to evaluate the coagulation system. 5. The system will be one single system maintained by a single vendor. 6. The system should operate off of 110 or 220 current at 50?60 hertz. 7. Because of the location where this analyzer will be located, the Mojave Desert, the system must be capable of operating in a zero humidity environment and reagents must be either capped or enclosed in the system such that evaporation is eliminated or minimized. 8. Any waste generated by the analyzer must comply with California and any federal waste standards. Ideally, the waste will be capable of being emptied into the hospital’s waste water drainage system. If these requirements cannot be met, then the vendor must pick up and dispose of any waste not meeting these standards. SYSTEM COMPONENTS 9. Vendor will provide the analytical system, keyboard, printers, scanners, uninterrupted power system, and any other peripherals, hardware, or software to keep the system operational at all times. ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES 10. Fully automated from the time a sample is loaded until analysis is complete. 11. At a minimum, testing capabilities must include a prothrombin time (PT) and International Normalized Rate (INR), partial thromboplastin time (PTT), Fibrinogen, and D?Dimer. Any additional testing the analyzer is capable of performing is acceptable but may or may not be used by the Government. 12. The sample most often used will be a 3 to 4 milliliter (mL) vacutainer blood collection tube with the light blue cap made by the Greiner or Becton?Dickinson Corporation and containing citrate as an anticoagulant. Other than centrifugation of the vacutainer tube, no other processing should be required by the operator. 13. The system must be capable of piercing the cap on the blood tube to access the sample. The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice. REAGENTS, CONTROLS, CALIBRATORS, AND OTHER CONSUMMABLES REQUIRED FOR ANALYSIS 14. Vendor will provide necessary reagents, controls, calibrators, and other consumables (other than the vacutainer blood collection tubes) required to perform analysis, plus up to an additional ten percent for wastage. 15. To help the vendor and government keep costs at a minimum, vendor will provide the government with a list of all reagents, controls, calibrators, and other consumables required and the government will phone in an order for these supplies as needed. COMPUTER LINKS 16. The system must interface and be compatible with the Cerner Corporation’s MHSGenesis computer system to include reading the MHSGenesis barcode and inputting results into MHSGenesis system. MAINTENANCE 17. Government personnel will perform daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and other periodic maintenance as defined by the vendor for users of this analytical system. 18. The vendor will provide a 7/24 hotline for service and maintenance problems that are beyond routine maintenance. 19. The vendor will provide a service contract consisting of a trained field representative who can be onsite within 24 hours to fix a service problem for any service issues beyond the capability of an operator. 20. Vendor will provide all replacement parts, transportation, and other expenses, to keep the instrument running under the service contract. NUMBER OF SAMPLES TO BE ANALYZED 21. It is anticipated that the government will perform 100 samples per month, plus or minus twenty percent, consisting of one or more of the four tests listed above (PT/INR, PTT, Fibrinogen, D?Dimer) with the majority of those tests being the PT/INR and the PTT. TRAINING 22. The Vendor will provide user training. 23. Vendor, at their discretion, may opt to provide one or more trainers at Fort Irwin for at least one week to train the users of the system. Or, alternatively, the Vendor may opt to provide training to two operators of the system at Vendor’s training facility, cost of the training to be borne by the Vendor. PRICE VARIATION DUE TO INFLATION OR OTHER REASONS 24. Due to the length of the contract, vendor may increase prices up to 3% when renewable option years are exercised. 25. The Government has the right to adjust quantities of tests provided when exercising option years. Vendor will then have the right to adjust prices accordingly. 26. Any price increase above 3%, or an increase during periods other than when the option year renewal is exercised will require re?negotiation. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to deliver the above-listed supplies are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by 4:00 p.m. CST, August 26, 2021. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to veronica.m.brooks2.civ@mail.mil. If you have any questions concerning please contact the Contract Specialist, Ms. Veronica Brooks at veronica.m.brooks2.civ@mail.mil