SOURCES SOUGHT
65 -- Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor (MSPV) for Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 23.
- Notice Date
- 4/14/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 423450
— Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- VA National Acquisition Center - Department of Veterans Affairs National Acquisition Center
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- VA-797-10-RI-0083
- Response Due
- 4/28/2010
- Archive Date
- 7/27/2010
- Point of Contact
- Timothy RichardsContracting Officer
- E-Mail Address
-
Contracting Officer
(timothy.richards@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Acquisition Center, is conducting market research to determine if there are adequate small business concerns capable of providing a broad range of medical and surgical products to Medical Centers within Veterans Integrated Service Network 23. See below for a list of the medical centers. This is not a request for interested parties to be placed on a solicitation mailing list. This announcement is for informational purposes only and must not be construed as a request for proposal (RFP), or an announcement of a solicitation. The objective for this effort is to identify interested small business concerns that can provide directly to Medical Centers the breadth and depth of medical and surgical products from the many Federal Supply Schedule product suppliers. Interested parties must possess the experience, capabilities, distribution facilities, transportation systems, resources and required web-based ordering systems to service the Medical Centers both in bulk and low unit of measure deliveries. Interested parties shall provide all of the following information: (1) Business name, business address, business telephone number, and business size; (2) A list of all current and past contracts with similar requirements along with names, addresses and telephone numbers of customer points of contact; (3) Description of handling, storage and distribution procedures for low unit of measure deliveries; (4) Total number of company employees, and; (5) Address, telephone number(s) and size of distribution centers that will service the Medical Centers cited. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 423450 and the small business size standard is 500 employees. This procurement action will be issued on an unrestricted full and open competitive basis if it is determined that no capable small businesses exist that can provide the services and products required to service the Medical Centers listed in this announcement. The upcoming solicitation will be posted in FEDBIZOPPS with an anticipated effective date of October 20, 2010. All capable and interested small business concerns are encouraged to submit the necessary information by e-mail to: timothy.richards@va.gov; or by fax (708/786-5256) no later than 4:00 p.m. (Central Time), April 28, 2010. The Department of Veterans Affairs will not pay for any material provided in response to this Sources Sought Notice nor return the data provided. Points of Contact: Timothy Richards (708) 786-4959. List of Facilities (VISN 23) *VA Medical Center, 2101 Elm Street, Fargo, ND 58102 *VA Black Hills Healthcare System: *--Fort Meade Campus, 113 Comanche Road, Fort Meade, SD 57741 *--Hot Springs Campus, 500 North 5th Street, Hot Springs, SD 57747 VA Central Iowa Healthcare System: --Des Moines Division, 3600 30th St., Des Moines, IA 50310 --Knoxville Div., 1515 W. Pleasant St., Knoxville, IA, 50138 VA Medical Center, 601 Hwy 6 West, Iowa City, IA 52246 *VA Medical Center, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417 VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Healthcare System: *--Omaha Division, 4101 Woolworth Avenue, Omaha, NE 68105 --Grand Island Div.2201 North Broadwell Ave., Grand Island, NE 68803 --Lincoln Division, 600 South 70th St., Lincoln, NE 68510 *VA Medical Center, 2501 W. 22nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57106 *VA Medical Center, 4801 Veterans Drive, St. Cloud, MN 56303 * These facilities use Unit of Use or Low Unit of Measure Delivery per Section 18 Please contact the contracting officer for a copy of section 18 (Clean/Sterile Storage Area Processing) requirements.
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