554 MICROBIOLOGY MEDIA, SUPPLIES AND REAGENT
Contractor shall provide a full range/wide array of microbiology media, supplies, identification kits, biochemical reagents for rapid/full identification, ATCC quality control (QC) organism, and disposable supplies related to processing and complete work-up of specimens for microbiology cultures. Media, kits, reagents, and QC organisms are specific for required microbiology testing for patient specimens, and quality control requirement. Supplies shall be shipped/delivered to: Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center (RMRVAMC) Room D2-210, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service (1700 North Wheeling Street, Aurora CO, 80045).
Offered media, kits, reagents, and supplies shall be capable of producing accurate and reproducible results up to the manufacturer s defined guidelines without failures
If the media, kits, reagents and supplies do not produce results up to the manufacturer s defined guidelines and/or produce results with failures, they will be replaced at no additional cost to the Denver VA Medical Center.
Offered media, kits, and reagents shall be Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute (CLSI), Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), & Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for patient testing.
The quality of the media, kits, reagents, and supplies shall be high enough to satisfy proficiency testing standards of the College of American Pathologists (CAP), CLSI, CLIA, FDA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) OSHA.
The contractor shall provide technical standard operating procedure templates required for patient testing for microbiological culture and assays.
A technical manual and quality control documents shall be furnished with supplies supplied to VA.
The contractor shall provide the quality control standard letter at the beginning of the year as required by CAP and CLIA.
Contractor shall provide notification of backordered media, supplies, and reagents as soon as possible by email or a phone call, and provide a list of replacement for backordered media without any delay for patient testing.
SHAWNA BAUMERT
SHAWNA.BAUMERT@VA.GOV
shawna.baumert@va.gov
