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- Country: USA
- Summary: Electronic Lab Reporting for COVID-19 (VA-26-00005477) API | Shelko/Rhodes
- UST Ref No: 124326824
- Deadline: 18 Aug 2025
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: Refer Document
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.: 36C77625Q0265
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- Description
Notice of Intent to Sole Source: 36C77625Q0265Implementation of CARES Act 18155- Electronic Lab Reporting for COVID-19Introduction:The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) intends to issue a sole source contract to Associate of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) for electronic lab COVID-19 reporting. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b) soliciting competition; soliciting from a single source (including brand name), where acquisitions conducted under Simplified Acquisition Procedures are exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6, but still require a justification using the format of FAR 6.303-2. The NAICS code for this procurement is 813920 and the Small Business Administration Size Standard is $23.5 Million.Justification:On March 13, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was declared an emergency by the President of the United States. Subsequent to this declaration, Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a memo entitled "COVID-19 Pandemic Response, Laboratory Data Reporting: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Section 18115" dated June 4, 2020 that set a deadline of 1 August 2020 for all laboratories conducting COVID-19 testing to report daily testing activity to State or local public health departments within 24 hours of the results being known. In April 2020, COVID-19 was also named as a Nationally Notifiable Disease, and reporting to individual State Departments of Health (DOHs) was required. Although the public health emergency expired in May 2023, and COVID is no longer a Nationally Notifiable Disease as of 2025, 38 states and Washington, DC still mandate reporting of COVID tests to DOHs. Given the volume of testing performed by VA, there is a compelling need to maintain the existing service that automates COVID-19 laboratory testing activity reporting to state public health agencies.The Associate of Public Health Laboratories AIMS platform has been the on... - Documents :
Purchaser : VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF
6150 OAK TREE BLVD SUITE 300, INDEPENDENCE , OH 44131, USA
Primary Point of Contact: Ron Shelko, ronald.shelko@va.gov, Phone Number 216-447-8300
Email :ronald.shelko@va.gov
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