RFI for Blood Bank Validation Services

2026-11-03

RFI Amendment 1 is issued to extend the deadline for responses from 12 / 11 / 2025 to 12 / 18 / 2025 . No other revisions are being made . Please have questions and responses submitted IAW the below by 5pm ET on Thursday , December 18 , 2025 . This is a Request for Information ( RFI ) issued for the sole purpose of conducting market research ; do not submit a proposal / quote . VA Medical Centers operate a blood bank and / or perform transfusion services and will be using the Oracle Health Pathnet Blood Bank system after go - live . Validation Services are required by regulatory and accreditation organizations to ensure patient and blood products safety . Compliance with the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) Regulations requires that these environments are validated prior to go - live . EHRM - IO seeks a contractor to provide blood bank validation services at each site with Full Blood Bank / Transfusion Medicine Services and those with transfusion only services to validate the build and configuration of the system , both for the local site build and enterprise review of all orderables , interpretation patterns , blood products , instrumentation connectivity and patient product compatibility . Please see the attached Draft PWS and RFI body for full information and response instructions . ATTACHMENTS : 1 ) RFI - Blood Bank Validation Services ; 2 ) Draft PWS - Blood Bank Validation Services * PLEASE NOTE REGARDING THE PERFORMANCE LOCATION : NJ is the location of the contracting agency and was only input as the field is required . RESPONSES ( to include questions ) ARE DUE BY COB ( 5pm ET ) on December 11 , 2025 . Multiple attachments are acceptable , however please submit only one email response ( i . e . one email response including a word document of questions , a PDF of your capability statement , and email body indicating your response ). Please include any questions / comments you may have on the PWS , or effort in general in your one response . The VA Technology Acquisition Center POCs for this RFI are Contract Specialist Steven Baum and Contracting Officer Wendella Baptiste . Submit questions directly to steven . baum @ va . gov , with a CC to wendella . baptiste @ va . gov .

New Jersey

2026-04-29