Sole Source Notice - Blood and Blood Products

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 17, intends to award a Firm-Fixed price, single-award IDIQ to Carter Bloodcare, for procurement of the following Blood and Blood Products (“X” represents Ordering Periods 1-5): Item # Description Est Annual Needs Unit X001 *Red Cells, Leukocyte reduced 4056 Unit X002 Platelets, Pheresis, Leukocyte reduced 416 Unit X003 Fresh frozen plasma, OR Plasma frozen <24 hours 350 Unit X004 Cryoprecipitate, frozen pooled from 5 donors 150 Unit X005 Platelet-pheresis, HLA matched 5 Unit X006 Deglycerolyzed Red cells 5 Unit X007 Freezing of Patient RBC 5 Ea X008 Deglycerolization of frozen RBC 5 Ea X009 Irradiation Fee 1000 Ea X010 Class 1 HLA Type 1 Ea X011 HLA Typing; A, B, C, single antigen 1 Ea X012 HLA-A,B, Molecular; Request Coding 1 Ea X013 HLA Computer match fee 10 Ea X014 ABID; PLT Immunoglobulin Assay XM 5 Ea X015 ABID; PLT Immunoglobulin Assay PLA1 1 Ea X016 ABID; Platelet Antibody 3 Ea X017 Washing (red blood cells) 3 Ea X018 Antigen Screen, Tier 1 antigen (C, c, E, or K) 30 Ea X019 Antigen Screen, Tier 2 antigen (Jka, Jkb, Fya, Kpa, e, or P1) 50 Ea X020 Antigen Screen, Tier 3 antigen (Fyb, Kpb, S, s, Cw, k, Wra, or High prevalence) 50 Ea X021 ABO/Rh type 10 Ea X022 Blood Typing-ABO/Rh Discrepancy 2 Ea X023 Antibody Screen, RBC, each Serum Technique 10 Ea X024 Cold Agglutinin, Screen 1 Ea X025 AHG Test; Direct, each antiserum 5 Ea X026 ABID, RBC Antobodies, ea panel 10 Ea X027 Antibody Elution (RBC), each 6 Ea X028 Pretreat RBC with Enzymes, each 3 Ea X029 Pretreat Serum with Absorption x1 2 Ea X030 Pretreat Serum with Absorption x2 2 Ea X031 Pretreat Serum with Absorption x3 2 Ea X032 Drug Studies Request Coding 1 Ea X033 Lectin Panel (Polyagglutination) 1 Ea X034 CMV Negative 3 Ea X035 HgB S Negative 5 Ea X036 Frozen Blood Storage (up to 90 days) 3 Ea X037 Imported Rare Unit Fee 5 Ea X038 Molecular RBC Genotype 20 Ea X039 RHD Molecular Testing 5 Ea X040 RhCE Molecular Testing 5 Ea X041 Molecular Sequenc