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Reportable Tests - Blood Donor Testing Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Non-Personal Services. Provide FDA licensed Blood Testing for Infectious Disease for the Standard Test Panel and Confirmatory Testing in a... Reportable Tests - Blood Donor Testing Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Non-Personal Services. Provide FDA licensed Blood Testing for Infectious Disease for the Standard Test Panel and Confirmatory Testing in accordance with the Performance Work Statement (PWS), Paragraph 5. The Government will only pay for Reportable Tests. Contractor Manpower Reporting (CMR) Period of Performance: 01 May 2020 - 30 Apr 2021 (Base Period) Period of Performance: 01 May 2021 - 30 Apr 2022 (Option Period 1) Period of Performance: 01 May 2022 - 30 Apr 2023 (Option Period 2) GENERAL. This is a non-personal services contract to provide blood donor testing for the Armed Services Blood Bank Center - Europe (ASBBC-E). The Government will not exercise any supervision or control over the Contractor employees performing services herein. Such employees shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn, is responsible to the Government. This testing requirement fulfills guidance from the FDA requiring all DoD Blood Donor Centers (BDCs) to test samples from individual human donors, including donors of whole blood and blood components, and other living donors for blood type, occurrence of blood antibodies and infectious diseases. SCOPE. The Contractor shall provide all required facilities, personnel, services, materials, equipment, and supplies required to meet the requirements outlined in this Performance Work Statement. All testing shall be in accordance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations for the manufacturing of transfusable blood products and for blood bank reference lab testing. The standard test shall be a platform approved by the FDA (shall be performed in accordance with Code of Federal Regulation, Title 21 (CFR) and applicable industrial standards). Donor blood testing services will support the Armed Services Blood Bank Center - Europe (ASBBC-E) located at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl (LRMC), Germany. REQUIREMENTS. The Contactor shall provide the full range of donor blood diagnostic testing capabilities to execute required tests annotated in PWS paragraph 5. entitled “Description of Work”. Whole blood and platelet/plasma apheresis products from the ASBBC-E will require the routine individual donor blood testing panel and repeat testing, as well as confirmation testing. The Contractor shall provide any confirmatory testing and additional tests required by the FDA. All donor blood laboratory testing shall be executed in accordance with standard industry practices. All tests shall be executed at the Contractor's premises, or within the Contractor's network of laboratories (affiliate or qualified subcontractor). Contractor shall provide a Contingency Plan that describes in detail, how the Contractor intents to perform when an emergency/natural disaster is declared and there is a surge in units to be tested, to avoid any delay or stoppage of service.

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SOURCES SOUGHT TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION FOR SERVICES INTRODUCTION The Regional Health Contracting Office-Europe (RHCO-E), Landstuhl, Germany is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducti... SOURCES SOUGHT TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION FOR SERVICES INTRODUCTION The Regional Health Contracting Office-Europe (RHCO-E), Landstuhl, Germany is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support the requirement for Blood Donor Reference Laboratory Testing Services. The intention is to procure these services on a competitive basis. BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. Small Business Set-Aside categories will NOT be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE Location: Contractor’s Facility % On-Site Government: 0% % Off-Site Contractor: 100% DISCLAIMER “THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A “REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)” TO BE SUBMITTED. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. RESPPONSES WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO THE RESPONDER. NOT RESPONDING TO THIS NOTICE DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) OR INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) OR RFP, IF ANY ISSUED. IF A SOLICITATION IS RELEASED, IT WILL BE SYNOPSIZED ON THE GOVERNMENT-WIDE POINT OF ENTRY (GPE). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF POTENTIAL OFFERORS TO MONITOR THE GPE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMMATION PERTAINING TO THIS REQUIREMENT.” PROGRAM BACKGROUND The Armed Services Blood Bank Center –Europe (ASBBC-E), is designated as the requiring activity for the Blood Donor Reference Laboratory Testing Services. REQUIRED CAPABILITIES The Contractor shall provide Blood Donor Reference Laboratory Testing Services in support of the areas specified in Program Background (above). Further detail is provided in the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) attached to this announcement (Attachment 1). If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address and telephone number for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) provide services consistent, in scope and scale, with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Service Contract Labor Standards (formerly known as the Service Contract Act) ELIGIBILITY The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 621511 – Medical Laboratories. The Product Service Code is Q301 – Medical Laboratory Testing Services. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS (CAPABILITIES STATEMENT) A draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) is attached for review. (Attachment 1) Interested parties are requested to submit a capabilities statement of no more than ten (10) pages in length in Times New Roman font of not less than 10 pitch. The deadline for response to this request is no later than 16:00, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+01:00), 18 December 2019. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be e-mailed to HenningFalk.Mayer-Goldstein.LN@mail.mil and Richard.G.Himebrook.civ@mail.mil. This documentation must address at a minimum the following items: 1.) What type of work has your company performed in the past in support of the same or similar requirement? 2.) Can or has your company managed a task of this nature? If so, please provide details. 3.) Can or has your company managed a team of subcontractors before? If so, provide details. 4.) What specific technical skills does your company possess which ensure capability to perform the tasks? 5.) Provide a statement including company profile to include number of employees, annual revenue history, office locations, DUNS number, CAGE, etc. The estimated period of performance consists of a base period of one (1) year plus four (4) optional periods with performance commencing in May 2020. Specifics regarding the number of option periods will be provided in the solicitation. The contract type is anticipated to be firm-fixed price. The proposed contract is anticipated to include tasking that would be accomplished by labor categories that are subject to the Service Contract Labor Standards or a collective bargaining agreement. Your response to this Sources Sought, including any capabilities statement, shall be electronically submitted to the Contract Specialist, Henning Mayer-Goldstein and to the Contracting Officer, Richard G. Himebrook, in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email HenningFalk.Mayer-Goldstein.LN@mail.mil and Richard.G.Himebrook.civ@mail.mil All data received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government. No phone calls will be accepted. All questions must be submitted to the Contract Specialist and Contracting Officer identified above. The Government is not committed nor obligated to pay for the information provided, and no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought.