Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, is seeking a contractor to provide heart transplant rejection testing services. The contract will be a 5-year firm-fixed price blanket purchase agreement. The contractor will be required to provide post-transplant Molecular Microscope Diagnostic System (MMDx) Expression test, or equal, to determine if a heart post-transplant patient is rejecting their transplanted organ. The contractor will be responsible for performing laboratory testing, analysis, and result interpretation, as well as providing consultative services. The contractor must be fully licensed and accredited and comply with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
Some key requirements include:
• Providing individual patient-chartable test result reports meeting Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) requirements
• Maintaining current accreditation and notifying the Contracting Officer of any lapse in state license, CLIA certification, or clinical pathology certification
• Complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Providing and maintaining quality assurance programs that meet federal regulations for laboratory operations
• Notifying the contracting officer in writing of any malpractice investigation or licensure or certification suspension within 24 hours of notification