DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Veterans Health Administration Network Contracting Office 17 (NCO 17) Lab Services Support (LSS) NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT Special Notice Epredia Excelsior Tissue Processors & Epredia HM525 Cryostat Preventive Maintenance and Repair Services South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital Histology Laboratory ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Notice Type: Special Notice Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source Contract Solicitation / RFQ Number: 36C25726Q0756 Posted Date: July 8, 2026 Response Deadline: July 18, 2026, 4:00 PM Central Time (CT) NAICS Code: 811210 Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance Size Standard: $34.0 Million PSC Code: J066 Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment: Industrial and Manufacturing Machinery Place of Performance: Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital, Histology Laboratory Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service, San Antonio, TX 78229 Set-Aside Status: No Set-Aside Applied (Sole Source) Period of Performance: One (1) Base Year with Four (4) One-Year Option Periods (Base + 4 Option Years) Contract Type: Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) REGULATORY BASIS This notice is prepared and published in accordance with the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 5, "Publicizing Contract Actions," specifically RFO FAR 5.1 "Pre-Solicitation Notice," as implemented by GSA Class Deviation RFO-2025-05. The statutory authority for this sole source procurement is 41 U.S.C. § 3304(a)(1), as set forth in RFO FAR 6.103-1(b), "Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements." This action is also consistent with FAR 5.207(c)(15) and FAR 5.207(c)(16)(ii), and FAR 6.302-1(d). NOTICE OF INTENT The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Network Contracting Office 17 (NCO 17), Lab Services Support (LSS), intends to award a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP), sole source contract to: Richard-Allan Scientific, LLC (Epredia) (Hereinafter referred to as "the Contractor" or "Richard-Allan Scientific / Epredia") for the provision of preventive maintenance and repair services for (2) Epredia Excelsior Tissue Processors and (1) Epredia HM525 Cryostat located in the Histology Laboratory of the Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS), Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital, San Antonio, Texas. A solicitation will NOT be posted as a result of this notice. DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT The South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) requires continued preventive maintenance and repair services for the following proprietary laboratory instrumentation currently installed and in operation in the Histology Laboratory of the Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service at Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital: (2) Richard-Allan Scientific, LLC. Epredia Excelsior Tissue Processors S/N: ET55941709 and S/N: 3ET56691710 (1) Richard-Allan Scientific, LLC. Epredia HM525 Cryostat S/N: CNX05692307EP The Con…