Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide histology block and slide processing lab services. The contractor will be responsible for processing, cutting, and staining slides for routine histology H&E interpretation and diagnosis. The services will include providing ground courier services to pick-up formalin fixed tissue cassettes on a daily basis from the Sacramento VAMC and transporting them to the contractor's laboratory for processing. The contractor will then deliver the processed tissue blocks and slides to the Sacramento VAMC.
The key requirements for the contractor include:
• Having a minimum of five years of experience in performing standard and specialized histology work for hospital-based histology laboratories
• Having demonstrated capability to perform routine H&E staining resulting in slides that are consistent, high quality and sufficient for making diagnoses
• Maintaining all licenses, permits, accreditation, and certificates required by law to operate as a CLIA-certified laboratory
• Ensuring that supervisory staff members are certified as Histopathology Technicians through the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
• Providing professional liability insurance by a commercial insurance company
• Having the capability to accommodate variable workload with minimal notice
• Being located within commuting distance of the Sacramento VAMC to allow transport of specimens to and from the contractor's laboratory by ground courier.