Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Network Contracting Office 17, intends to award a firm-fixed priced contract to Decipher Corp. for the procurement of Decipher Genomic Prostate Cancer Testing. The testing will include all related CPT codes, labor, supplies, equipment, insurance, and supervision. The off-site testing will be administered by the VA North Texas Healthcare System, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service. The contract will be for a base period plus four option years.
Key aspects of the job include:
• Providing sendout reference laboratory testing not performed in-house at VANTHCS' Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service Lab
• Encompassing all CPT codes
• Providing all labor, supplies, equipment, insurance, and supervision to provide the items
• Ordering items on an as-needed basis, with exact quantities determined by physician's orders
• Providing prognostic information to help guide and personalize the treatment of prostate cancer
• Predicting 5-year Metastasis and 10-year cancer-related mortality in localized prostate cancer
• Total annual estimated test volume is 15