Presolicitation
Siemens UniPOC Licenses and Service
Department of Veterans Affairs · Sol. 36C10B27Q0012
Due in 21 daysSole source
The agency plans to award to one named company. Others can only submit a capability statement to challenge it.
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The VA's Technology Acquisition Center (Eatontown, NJ) plans a sole-source award to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics for Siemens UniPOC point-of-care testing software licenses and annual support for the VA Mid Atlantic Health Care Network (facilities in North Carolina and Virginia). It would be a firm-fixed-price delivery order under Siemens' GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract, with a base period plus four option periods. Only Siemens is said to be able to supply it, so there is no competition.
Watch out for
- Sole-source award to Siemens. The VA says only Siemens Healthineers can provide this proprietary software and support, so a small business has essentially no path to win it.
Justification for a Sole Source Award
- No resellers allowed. The justification says Siemens confirmed it has no authorized resellers or service providers, which closes the usual route for a reseller.
- Attachment text was garbled. The justification PDF came through with scrambled characters and its numbers (value, contract number, period lengths, facility network number) were lost, so these details could not be read reliably.
- Competition limited to future monitoring. The VA says it will keep watching the market for other brand-name software that could work with its hardware, but offers no way to respond now.
Full brief
What they want
- Brand-name Siemens UniPOC and Web Results Xpress (WRX) software licenses for the VA's point-of-care testing data management system
- Annual maintenance and support, including Siemens Healthineers Gold Support
- Middleware interfaces connecting point-of-care instruments to the VA's electronic medical record and lab information system
- Software upgrades and patches
- Telephone and remote technical support, plus standard training and consultation
- Technical help for future migrations, including a move to Cerner or other enterprise record systems
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price delivery order under a GSA Federal Supply Schedule (Multiple Award Schedule) contract; brand-name sole source
- Period of performance
- A base period plus four option periods; the length of each period and the overall maximum are not legible in the text
- Place of performance
- VA medical centers and clinics served by the North Carolina UniPOC server farm (Asheville, Durham, Fayetteville, Salisbury) and the Virginia server farm (Richmond, Salem, Hampton)
- Contract vehicle
- GSA Federal Supply Schedule Multiple Award Schedule contract held by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, NY); contract number not legible
- How they'll choose
- No competitive evaluation: sole-source justification naming Siemens as the only responsible source
- Offers due
- October 30, 2026, 10:00 AM Eastern (from the notice header)
What to include when you submit
- The notice and justification give no instructions for other vendors to respond
- The justification says the award notice will be posted on SAM.gov and the justification made public with the solicitation
You must have
- Must be able to supply brand-name Siemens UniPOC and WRX licenses and Siemens Gold Support; the justification says Siemens Healthineers is the only source and has no authorized resellers or service providers
Justification for a Sole Source Award
- Vehicle: order is placed under Siemens' GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract
Current contractor
Siemens Healthineers (the legal continuation of the Siemens healthcare entities) already provides the UniPOC and WRX environment now in use across the network
Not in the notice text
- Total estimated value of the action
- Length of the base period, each option period and the overall maximum
- GSA contract number and the exact VA network number (digits were lost in the attachment text)
- Whether and how other vendors can respond or submit capability statements
- What the October 30, 2026 response date is for
- Who to contact at the VA Technology Acquisition Center
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 30, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Solicitation
- 36C10B27Q0012
- Agency
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Office
- Technology Acquisition Center NJ (36C10B)
- NAICS
- 334516
- Product/service code
- 7A21
- Business type
- Electrical & electronic components
- Contracting contact
- Tammie BellTammie.Bell@va.gov
Full notice text from SAM.gov
Justification for a Sole Source Award
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