SOURCES SOUGHT
65 -- Custom made surgical packs
- Notice Date
- 3/1/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 339113
— Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, NMC San Diego, Bldg 1 38400 Bob Wilson Drive, San Diego, CA, 92134-5000
- ZIP Code
- 92134-5000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-N002596060SS01
- Response Due
- 3/22/2006
- Archive Date
- 4/6/2006
- Description
- Medical Supplies - Potential Sources Sought Military Hospitals: (Army, Navy, Air Force) Southwest Region CUSTOM MADE SURGICAL PACKS: Standardization Point of Contact: Cindy Ingrao, Clinical Consultant, Tri-Service Regional Business Office, Southwest Region, San Diego, CA. Telephone: (619) 532-8517. Potential sources sought to participate in the regional standardization of Custom Made Surgical Packs. Southwest Region, a military integrated delivery network (IDN), comprised of Army, Navy and Air Force medical treatment centers in California are in the process of standardizing Custom Made Surgical Packs. If your company currently holds or is in the process of obtaining a Distribution and Pricing Agreement (DAPA) with the Defense Supply Center-Philadelphia (DSCP) on Custom Made Surgical Packs, your company is eligible to participate in the standardization process. Please respond by Email: cingrao@nmcsd.med.navy.mil and provide your company name, address, point of contact, telephone, fax and E-mail address and answers to the below listed questions no later than March 22, 2006. For questions, please call (619) 532-8517. 1.Does your company manufacture and/or distribute custom surgical packs? 2.Are your products available through the Prime Vendor, Owens & Minor and Cardinal? 3.What is your DAPA Number? 4.Under what brand(s) does your company manufacture or distribute your product? 5.Under what standards is your product manufactured? 6.Does your company provide itemized utilization reports, itemized sales reports, itemized pack change reports, education programs, and clinical support for your packs? (Itemized per Regional requirements.) 7.Does your company offer any software programs for pack management that is available to the facilities? If so, what is the program and is it available at no additional cost? 8.Are your packs latex free? If not, why? 9.Does your company have the capability of making latex free packs? 10.How does your company label the latex status of your packs? 11.Do your packs come with labels? If so, what size? 12.Are there fees for component changes in the packs? 13.Does your company offer the ability to choose the vendor for components in the packs without penalties or added fees? 14.Is your company amenable to using ?standardized products? chosen by our Region in the packs? If yes, what kind of monitoring tool does your company have to ensure the ?standardized products? are continuously being used in the packs? What kind of feedback mechanism can you provide to our Region in this regard? 15.If your company has its own brand of products, but our Region requests to substitute ?standardized products?, is there a penalty or added fees? 16.Does your company have a special arrangement with manufacturers/distributors to purchase regionally standardized products at the government negotiated incentive pricing? 17.If asked to use standardized products, are there any companies you do not have a business relationship with? 18.At the time of the incentive pricing request, would you provide a cost breakdown between your usual brands of products versus the region specific standardized products? 19.What form of notification does your company provide to the Region and/or facilities before a substitution of standardized components is made? 20.Does your company put together packs according to configurations that are facility specific? 21.What is the minimum length of time your company requires for a facility to request discontinuation of use, or make changes to components of a custom pack? 22.What is the average turn around time from placement of the change to a component in the pack to the actual change? 23.What is the labeling method used for listing components contained in the pack? 24.Are expiration dates listed on the label for items in the pack with specific expiration dates (i.e., solutions, gels, etc)? 25.What is the method of sterilization used by your company for the packs? 26.How does your company ship the product to maintain the integrity and sterility? 27.Do your packs have an indicator that alerts a user the sterility of a pack has been compromised? 28.What types of educational tools or materials do you have for this product line? 29.What kind of staff training does your company provide before implementation? 30.Is your company currently supplying custom packs to a chain of hospitals? If so, give no more than two hospital names, points of contact, and phone numbers. 31.If your company is awarded the business for our Region, does your company offer a CME/CEU continuing education program at no cost? 32.If your company is awarded the business for our Region, how soon can your company deliver custom packs to the facilities? Do you have a written Implementation Plan? 33.Does your company provide customer service 24/7 through a toll free number? 34.Does your company have local representatives to provide assistance at facility locations? 35.What other services not asked does your company provide at no cost? 36.What other services not asked does your company provide for an additional fee? 37.What is your return goods policy? 38.Where are your warehouses located? 39.Is there any history of backorders and/or recalls for this product group? If yes, please answer: (a) Dates and duration, (b) Cause, & (c) Resolution Also, please send your product literature on Custom Made Surgical Packs by March 22, 2006 to: Ms. Cindy Ingrao, RN, MSN Tri-Service Regional Business Office Multi-Service Market Management 34800 Bob Wilson Dr., Suite 110 San Diego, CA 92134
- Record
- SN00997171-W 20060303/060301212801 (fbodaily.com)
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