Q301--Renal transplant testing

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans health Administration, Network Contracting Office 6, intends to award a firm fixed price sole-source contract to VCU Health System Authority. The Richmond Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) request renal transplant testing agreement. The justification for this noncompetitive solicitation is due to VCU Health System Authority being the only local testing laboratory that contains the transplant donor information and initial recipient work up. The NAICS code for this procurement is 541380 Testing Laboratories with a size standard of $16.5M. Sole source items: PRA Luminex ID Class 1 CPT 86830, PRA Luminex ID Class 2 CPT 86831, PRA Single Antigen Class 1 CPT 86832, PRA Single Antigen Class 2 CPT, 86833 and AT1R Testing CPT 86830. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES and no Solicitation will be issued. Market research has determined that this service is highly specialized are only available from a single source without an unacceptable delay or duplication of cost and no other type of services will satisfy agency requirements. The Government intends to award the contract with an effective date of 10 January 2021 to KCI USA Inc. 12930 W Interstate 10, san Antonio, TX 78249. However, interested parties may identify their skill and ability by sending capability statements in reference to this requirement to the contracting Officer within three (3) calendar days of this publication to Gordon Burns via e-mail [email protected] no later than 1600 EST, 3 March 2021. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. Those interested firms must indicate whether they are large, small, small-disadvantaged, 8(a) or woman owned business and whether they are U.S. or foreign owned. Respondents who submit proprietary data shall clearly mark the data with appropriate markings. The Government will not pay for any information submitted as a result of this synopsis. This synopsis shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services.