6550--NEW - Cepheid Reagents Contract
Veterans Affairs · 257-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 17 (36C257)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 36C25726Q0029 in this department, oldest first.
Next steps for this stage
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What the notice says
Special Notice Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source Procurement The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Network Contracting Office 17, intends to award a Firm-Fixed priced, IDIQ contract with five ordering periods to Cepheid. The GeneXpert system can only be used with the GeneXpert cartridge. Item # Description/Part Number* Qty XPRS4PLEX-10 KIT,IVD,XPRESS,COV-2/FLU/RSV PLUS,10TEST Xpert Xpress CoV-2/Flu/RSV plus Detection and differentiation of Flu A, Flu B, RSV and SARS- CoV-2, which all present with similar symptoms 680 XPRS-COV2-10 KIT,10 TEST,XPRESS COVID PLU… (show all)
S,US-IVD Xpert Xpress CoV-2 plus Qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2 with three gene targets for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, providing target redundancy that mitigates impact of genetic mutations. 385 This order is for an IDIQ contract for CEPHEID XPRS-COV2-10 KIT,10 TEST,XPRESS COVID PLUS,US-IVD and XPRS4PLEX-10 KIT,IVD,XPRESS,COV-2/FLU/RSV PLUS,10 TEST supplies. 1. The vendor shall provide testing educational materials and procedures of testing supplies at no additional cost. 2. The vendor shall deliver all testing supplies at no additional Government cost. 3. The vendor shall deliver testing supplies that are according to manufacturer specification, CLIA, FDA and CAP requirements. 4. In the event that requested supplies are on back-order, vendor is to inform COR as to the estimated time of availability. 5. The items on this contract are not on a delivery schedule. The customer will call vendor with order request for items needed. The South Texas VA Health Care System (STVHCS) and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service (P&LMS) located in San Antonio, Texas, requests a Vendor to provide XPRS4PLEX-10 KIT,IVD,XPRESS,COV-2/FLU/RSV PLUS,10 TEST and supplies. The vendor must be able to sequester reagent lots so that the lot numbers will be the same throughout the contract year. The vendor must provide confirmation of order same day as order request is received.The vendor must provide tracking information and provide an estimated delivery time. The vendor must be able to provide next-day delivery of the following reagents as needed: The sole source justification submitted by the requesting activity states that Cepheid is the only vendor able to provide this service. This notice is not to be considered a request for quotations or proposals. A contract will not be awarded based on an offer received in response to this notice; however, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. Proposals or offers received will be used to determine if a comparable source is available and more advantageous to the government. If no affirmative written response is received within 7 days from the publication of this notice, a contract/order will be issued to Cepheid without any further notice. The proposed contract actions are for services, which the government intends to negotiate with only one source. The anticipated statutory authorities permitting other than full and open competition for the requirement is 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The proposed sole source procurement will be made by a pricing agreement with Cepheid
Who won similar work
12 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (257-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 17 (36C257)), same product/service code (PSC) 6550 and NAICS 325413.
Single-winner award sizes (12): middle half $392K to $1.4M, median $857K; range $107K to $2.0M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEPHEID SUNNYVALE 94089 | 2 | $2.1M | Apr 2, 2026 |
| BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY · $BDX · $22.5B | 2 | $2.1M | Apr 27, 2026 |
| ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION | 2 | $1.5M | Aug 28, 2026 |
| GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC | 2 | $1.5M | Jun 2, 2026 |
| BIOMERIEUX INC | 1 | $2.0M | Aug 6, 2025 |
| VETERANS HEALTHCARE SUPPLY SOLUTIONS, INC | 1 | $1.0M | Aug 4, 2025 |
| BECKMAN COULTER, INC | 1 | $406K | Mar 19, 2025 |
| HOLOGIC SALES AND SERVICE, LLC | 1 | $350K | Oct 2, 2025 |
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
- $BDX reported $22.5B revenue (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). The median single-winner award in these 12 past awards, $857K, is under 0.1% of that. SEC filing
One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.
- Aug 28, 2026ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION$107K6550--Glucose Accu-Chek® Test StripsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Jun 2, 2026GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC SOURCE INC$1.3M6550--NEW - STX Core Lab QC ConsumablesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Apr 27, 2026BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY$1.6M6550--NEW - STX Flow Cytometry Rgts/ConsumablesMateriality: <0.01% of $BDX revenue (Low) SEC
- Apr 22, 2026ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION$1.4M6550--NTX Ventana ReagentsNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Apr 2, 2026CEPHEID SUNNYVALE 94089$714K6550--STX Cepheid Reagents - Ordering Period 1No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Oct 2, 2025HOLOGIC SALES AND SERVICE, LLC$350K6550--NEW - Hologic Reagents (Cytology) IDIQNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Aug 6, 2025BIOMERIEUX INC$2.0M6550-- NTX BioFire Torch IDIQNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Aug 4, 2025VETERANS HEALTHCARE SUPPLY SOLUTIONS, INC$1.0M6550-- CTX ABL 90 Reagents and ConsumablesNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Mar 31, 2025BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY$543K6550--South Texas VA COVID BD Flow Reagents Ordering Period 4Materiality: <0.01% of $BDX revenue (Low) SEC
- Mar 19, 2025BECKMAN COULTER, INC$406K6550--Urinalysis Analyzer Cost-Per-Reportable-Result (CPRR)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.
Competitive landscape
For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.
- 1 of these past winners lobbied Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) since 2024 (6 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) job
- $25K from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
Policy around it
Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.
- 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
- 25 rules from the department in the last 12 months
- 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
Market
For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.
- 1 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 4 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.
Companies are matched to tickers by exact name, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.