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The Department of Veterans Affairs South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS), Audie L. Murphy Division and the VISN 17 Contracting (10N17/671C), 7400 Merton Minter, San Antonio, TX 78229, inten... The Department of Veterans Affairs South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS), Audie L. Murphy Division and the VISN 17 Contracting (10N17/671C), 7400 Merton Minter, San Antonio, TX 78229, intends to award a firm-fixed price supply contract, for the Access BNP Reagents compatible with the Beckman Immunochemistry Instrumentation. No other types of substitute or third-party reagents will fit the need of the STVHCS for the reasons notated. BNP is one of the analytes being monitored in COVID patients in the current Pandemic. The Access BNP test is the only BNP test approved by the FDA that is exclusively made to work on our current Beckman Coulter Immunochemistry Analyzers. The BNP test is an In Vitro quantitative measurement of B-Type Natriuretic peptide (BNP) used by physicians to diagnose Congestive Heart Disease (CHD), make treatment decisions and monitor patients with Heart Failure and Acute Coronary Syndrome Please see attachment. Please submit all information and proposals to Ognian Ivanov mailto:ognian.ivanov@va.gov no later than Monday , December 20, 2021, 11:00 AM ET (10:00 AM CT).