Notice of Intent to Sole Source Laboratory Test Order and Test Result Data for General CDC Use

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order to Quest Diagnostics for laboratory test order and test result data that include longitudinal patient identifiers, without PII information, that supports multi-year, multi-facility analyses for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) efforts to identify Public health threat patterns in commercail laboratory data. This contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, all quotations/responses received within five (5) days of the issuance of this notice will be considered by the government. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Any response should be emailed to Lauren Peel at contact@example.gov by July 1, 2019, at 12:00 PM EST.