SOURCES SOUGHT
65 -- Alginate Dressings
- Notice Date
- 2/8/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 339113
— Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- VA National Acquisition Center - Department of Veterans Affairs National Acquisition Center
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- VA-797-10-RI-0060
- Response Due
- 3/1/2010
- Archive Date
- 5/30/2010
- Point of Contact
- Adrienne AlbachiaraContracting Officer
- E-Mail Address
-
Contracting Officer
(adrienne.albachiara@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- VA-797-10-RI-0060 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) FOR ALGINATE DRESSINGS RFI closes March 1, 2010, 4:00 pm Central Standard Time The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Acquisition Center (NAC) intends to issue a Request For Quotations (RFQ) for Alginate Dressings. VA wishes to determine if there are customary practices in the market place in regards to standards for absorbency testing, etc. via industry comments. Attached find a list of questions VA wishes addressed regarding this issue. 1.What is your standard for absorbency testing? 2.What is your minimum absorbency standard? 3.What type of procedure do you use to test your products' absorbency? 4.How do you test your product absorbency standard - in house testing? Independent lab testing? 5.Are these testing values published? 6.Are these test values available to your customers? 7.Do you test the absorbency as one time? As an ongoing manufacturing quality control? 8.Do you have a standard procedure to perform this evaluation? 9.Are you familiar with British standard? 10.How do your other customers pick your products? 11.Are there any standards that your other customers require you to meet? 12.Do your largest customers set criteria for you to meet? And how do you attempt to meet those criteria? 13.What confidence do we have to believe your products reliability for this performance value? Please submit responses to the Contracting Officer listed below. Adrienne A. Albachiara, Contracting Officer VA National Acquisition Center (001AL-A2-3c-MS) First Avenue, 1 block North of Cermak Road P.O. Box 76, Building 37 Hines, IL 60141 Adrienne.abachiara@va.gov
- Web Link
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- Record
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