Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide microbiology instrumentation and testing services for six VA Medical Center facilities in VISN-4. The contractor will be required to provide instrumentation and analyzers for all six facilities, as well as perform complete profiles and meet specific requirements. The contract will be a firm-fixed-price contract with a period of performance of five years.
• The contractor must provide a capability statement that addresses how they will meet all requirements described in the Performance Work Statement.
• The contractor must provide an implementation plan for installation of new equipment that shall not exceed 90 days for the transition of all services under the awarded BPA.
• The contractor must demonstrate how they are capable of providing both primary and back up instrumentation.
• The contractor must demonstrate that the instrumentation has the capability of performing or reporting the clinical parameters as defined in the statement of work.
• The contractor must demonstrate how instrumentation maintains, or preferably reduces the number of work stations or overall labor required to accomplish the required testing by each laboratory.
• The contractor must provide sufficient data that a maintained and continuously stocked inventory of reagents, standards, controls, supplies, disposables and any other materials required to properly perform tests on the equipment such that equipment operations are not interrupted.