Notice of Intent to Sole Source Award

The Indian Health Service Blackfeet Service Unit is issuing a notice of intent to award a sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract for newborn screening and testing services to the Montana Department of Health and Human Services. The work includes laboratory testing for newborn screening, communicable disease testing, and other required testing services that the Blackfeet Service Unit laboratory cannot provide in-house. Performance is for one year at the Blackfeet Service Unit in Browning, Montana, and the action is being pursued under a sole-source justification because only one responsible source is identified as meeting the agency’s requirements. The estimated value is below the simplified acquisition threshold, and any responses to the notice should demonstrate that competition would be advantageous, not cost- or time-prohibitive, and would not hinder the mission objective; questions must be emailed to Teri Kittson with the specified subject line, and telephone requests or offers will not be honored.