About this opportunity
AI summaryThe Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 2, seeks potential domestic sources to provide tuberculosis testing reagents and consumables for the Buffalo VA Medical Center. Contractors must supply all necessary items, including test kits, positive and negative controls, cell separation and processing reagents, ancillary supplies, documentation, and technical support services compatible with the T-SPOT TB testing platform. Interested parties must submit company details, business size classifications under NAICS code 334516, capability statements, SAM.gov Unique Entity ID numbers, and optional general pricing. Potential respondents must email their submissions to [email protected] no later than November 12, 2026, at 16:00 Eastern Time.
Scope of work
- Tuberculosis test kits
- Positive and negative controls
- Cell separation and processing reagents
- Required consumables and ancillary supplies
- Manufacturer-provided quality control materials
- Product inserts and technical documentation
- Technical support services
Minimum qualifications
- Reagents must be FDA-cleared for clinical diagnostic use in the United States, as applicable
- Reagents must be compatible with the existing T-SPOT TB testing platform and methodology
- Supplies must be suitable for use in an accredited clinical laboratory environment
- Active Sam.gov Unique Entity ID number
Documents to include with your response
- Company name, address, point of contact, and business size status
- Sam.gov Unique Entity ID number
- Capabilities statement addressing salient characteristics and equal-to items
- Answers to 13 specific market research questions listed in the notice
- General pricing of products or solutions (encouraged for market research)
Key dates
- Response date
- 11-12-2026 16:00 EASTERN TIME, NEW YORK, USA
How to submit
- Method
- Instructions
- Responses shall be submitted via email to the Contracting Officer. Telephone responses shall not be accepted.
Contract details
- Place of performance
- Buffalo VA Medical Center, 3495 Bailey Ave., Buffalo, NY 14215, USA
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- 36C24227Q0095
- Agency
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Buying office
- 242-Network Contract Office 02 (36C242)
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Responses due
- Nov 12, 2026, 4:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Oct 29, 2026
- NAICS
- 334516 · Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Product/service code
- 6550
- Place of performance
- Buffalo, NY, 14215
- Contracting contact
- Myra F. Green, Contracting Officer
Myra.Green2@va.gov
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.
Incumbent and award research
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Market context
Awards in the same category (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing). This is not this requirement's award history.
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Top vendors in this category: Department of Veterans Affairs, NAICS 334516, since Oct 1, 2024
5,731 contract awards in this NAICS over the period.
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Source: USAspending.gov federal award data (U.S. federal public data). A contract is called the incumbent only when the notice or its documents cite it by number.