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Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Sources Sought Notice Blood Gas Analyzer Cost Per Reportable Test This is a Sources Sought notice and not a request for quotes. This reque... Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Sources Sought Notice Blood Gas Analyzer Cost Per Reportable Test This is a Sources Sought notice and not a request for quotes. This request is solely for the purpose of conducting market research to enhance VHA s understanding of the market s offered products, services and capabilities. The Government will not pay any costs for responses submitted in response to this Sources Sought. This Sources Sought notice provides an opportunity for respondents to submit their notice of ability, and their available services in response to the requirement described below. Vendors are being invited to submit information relative to their potential of fulfilling the requirement below, in the form of a capability response that addresses the specific requirement identified in this Sources Sought. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is seeking a vendor to provide the following products and/or services below. Please see the General Requirements section below for the requested products/services and descriptions. This Sources Sought is to facilitate the Contracting Officer s review of the market base, for acquisition planning, size determination, and procurement strategy. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS Contractor shall provide all labor, material, transportation, equipment, lodging and supervision necessary to provide cost per reportable automated blood gas testing located at the Dayton VAMC facility at 4100 West Third Street, Dayton, OH 45428. The contractor shall provide 2 identical analyzers capable of performing fully automated blood gas testing to include: Ionized Calcium pH PCO2 PO2 Bicarbonate Base Excess TCO2 Total Hemoglobin Carboxyhemoglobin Methemoglobin Oxygen Content (Vol%) Hemoglobin Oxygen Saturation Percent Oxyhemoglobin In addition to having secured approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the instruments shall have the following: Required: Ability to monitor instrument performance. On Board reagent inventory system. No carryover between samples. Analyzer shall be able to sample from any sample s primary tube (example: syringe, whole blood vacutainers, and serum separator tubes). Pouring off any sample or use of an adapter is unacceptable. The ability to run micro samples of less than 100 uL. Throughput: 45 seconds or less to results from sample introduction. The instruments shall perform the following tests with the option to add testing or other new testing that becomes available in the future, if the need arises. The contactor is required to provide continuously stocked inventory of reagents, standards, controls, supplies, disposables and any other materials required to properly perform tests on the instruments such that equipment operations are not interrupted. These items shall be of the highest quality, sensitivity, specificity and tested to assure precision and accuracy. Both analyzers shall be up and running 24 hours per day. All supplies and reagents shall have a shelf life of not less than 6 months. Contractor shall provide quality control material that meets CAP and CMS requirements for blood gas testing and does not require an Individualized Quality Control Plan (IQCP). Quality control shall be on board and not require any other quality control other than what is loaded on the analyzer. The instrument shall possess a bi-directional, bar-coded computer interface compatible with the current VA laboratory information system. The fully operational interface (both hardware and software) shall be immediately available for implementation to the VA computerized hospital information system. Equipment shall have barcode reader to scan reagents and patient samples. Equipment shall be able to support multiple barcode formats that may be enabled concurrently to include Code 128, Code 39, and codabar. Equipment shall accept, at a minimum, 10 characters in specimen identifier that is alphanumeric. The equipment shall have no requirements for sample pre-treatment. The instrument shall be fully operable with no manual reagent preparation The instrument shall be able to maintain on board reagent stability sufficient to accommodate volume use. The equipment should require minimal maintenance. No daily maintenance and less than 5 minutes of hands on time for any additional maintenance. The instruments methodology shall be proven by stringent analytical techniques as defined by the 1988 Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) and the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). Instrument shall have a history of acceptable coefficient of variation (<3.0%) on College of American Pathologist surveys. In case of interface outage, the instrument shall possess the ability to store and transmit patient data for at least 24 hours of instrument throughput. The equipment shall have the capability to store at least 500 patient sample results in an onboard or fully connected database for immediate recall. Associated computer operating system shall be Microsoft Windows 7-based or higher. Operational noise level should not exceed 70 decibels. Analyzers shall automatically calibrate per CAP requirements with no operator involvement. Software shall possess automated commands to stop a run if calibration or QC fails. RESPONSE COMMITMENT Response: All responses should be directed to maryjane.crim@va.gov. Submittals furnished will not be returned to the sender. No debriefs will be conducted. Eligibility in participating in a future acquisition does not depend upon a response to this notice. Proprietary information is neither requested nor desired. If such information is submitted, it must clearly be marked "proprietary" on every sheet containing such information, and the proprietary information must be segregated to the maximum extent practicable from other portions of the response (e.g., use an attachment or exhibit). Timeline: This request will close on stated date within the Government Point of Entry (GPE). Notes: 1. This Sources Sought is for planning purposes only, and does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that a procurement action will follow. The Department of Veterans Affairs will use the information submitted in response to this notice at its discretion and will not provide comments to any submission; however, The Department of Veterans Affairs reserves the right to contact any respondent to this notice for the sole purpose of enhancing The Department of Veteran Affairs understanding of the notice submission. 2. The content of any responses to this notice may be reflected in any subsequent solicitation, except for content marked or designated as business confidential or proprietary which will be fully protected from release outside the government. The Department of Veteran Affairs Contracting Office POC: Mary Jane Crim Contract Specialist Email: maryjane.crim@va.gov