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Opportunity description
The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 16 has a requirement for a multiple year, firm fixed price IDC contract to supply reagents for the existing Roche Ventana stainers at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System (New Orleans, LA). This will be a new contract with 5 ordering years. One contractor will be selected for award. This procurement will be unrestricted through RFP procedures under FAR 15 and other FAR Parts and Subparts as applicable. The anticipated Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts will be five-year firm and will be awarded as Multiple Award Task Order Contracts (MATOC s) using FAR 15.101-1. The value for each subsequent individual Task Orders will be a minimum of $2,000 and a maximum $400,000. All contract work will be completed through individual Firm Fixed Price (FFP) task orders awarded for individual projects. Each task order will be individually priced and have its own wage determination. Task orders will be issued on a competitive basis among the MATOC holders only and the VA reserves the right to add Technical and Past Performance on more complex projects, but price only is the preferred method for evaluation. Guaranteed minimum is $10,000.00 total for all ordering years. The applicable North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) primary code is 325413 In Vitro Substance Manufacturing and Size Standard is 1,250 Employees. Interested offerors are asked to please first read over the RFP and all its associated attachments/documents in their entirety prior to forwarding any questions to the Contracting OfficerThe RFQ number for this project is 36C25627Q0074 and it is tentatively projected to be published on 11/01/2026. The RFQ will be posted and can be downloaded from the SAM website. Amendments to this RFP will not be mailed but will be posted at the SAM website. Offerors are responsible for obtaining the RFP (and associated documents/attachments) from the SAM website and for acknowledging all Amendments to the RFP. It is the responsibility of all interested offerors to check the SAM website as necessary for any Amendments to the RFP (to include the day proposals are due). This is an unrestricted solicitation.
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