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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 22, 2013 FBO #4381
DOCUMENT

65 -- VENDOR FAIR - DEFIBRILLATORS - Attachment

Notice Date

11/20/2013
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

334510 — Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Network Contracting Office 9;1639 Medical Center Parkway;Suite 400;Murfreesboro TN 37129
 

ZIP Code

37129
 

Solicitation Number

VA24914I0133
 

Response Due

12/9/2013
 

Archive Date

2/7/2014
 

Point of Contact

Victoria Rone
 

E-Mail Address

5-6454<br
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

Sources Sought Notice: Vendor Show - Defibrillators This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, estimates, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to view Defibrillators and obtain information regarding: (1) the availability of defibrillators and their various features (2) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources Background: The VAMC in Memphis, TN consists of one main campus located at 1030 Jefferson Avenue, which includes a 60-bed Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and nine community based outpatient clinics (CBOC). It is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level I Facility and one of the most complex medical centers in the VA system. It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as extensive education and research programs. Comprehensive primary, secondary, and tertiary health care is provided in areas of medicine, general cardiovascular and neurological surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, dentistry, and geriatrics. Specialized outpatient services are provided through general, specialty, and subspecialty outpatient clinics including a women's health center. Services are available to more than 206,000 Veterans living in a 53-county tri-state area (Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi). Of the nine active CBOCs in the catchment area, three are VA staffed and 6 are contracted. In 2012, the VA Memphis South CBOC, located 8 miles from the Memphis VA Medical Center, provided primary and mental health care to 7,174 Veterans. The VA Memphis North CBOC, located 11 miles from the medical center also provided primary and mental health services and saw 5,696 patients in 2012. The VA Memphis Jackson CBOC, located 80 miles from the medical center, saw 6,390 patients. The VAMC Memphis also has contract CBOCs located in Smithville and Byhalia, MS; Jonesboro and Helena, AR; Savannah and Dyersburg, TN, which provide primary and mental health care to Veterans. As a result, the Memphis VA Medical Center CBOCs improve access and reduce the travel distance for approximately 33,000 Veterans in outlying counties. The VAMC in Memphis is part of the MidSouth Healthcare Network, VISN 9, which includes facilities in Lexington and Louisville, KY; Huntington, WV; and Nashville and Mountain Home, TN. Purpose and Objectives: The purpose of this vendor show for defibrillators is to allow all staff to look at the possible defibrillators that might be purchased for the medical center. Products should include all available product lines for defibrillators, both transport and non-transport. Some of the various features that should be addressed include manual and AED modes, waveform capnography, pacing mode, synchronization, noninvasive blood pressure, SpO2, biphasic defibrillation, life span, battery life, weight, as well as any other features that the vendor feels should be highlighted for their product. The objective is to provide information on available defibrillators for the medical center to evaluate for purchase. Vendor Show: Vendors that respond to this solicitation will be provided space at the VA Medical Center of Memphis in the Theatre on December 17, 2013. The vendor show will be from 6:30AM until 6:00PM. Address: VA Medical Center of Memphis, 1030 Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104 Point of Contact (POC): Sheena House, Chief Biomedical Engineer Avondria Smith, Biomedical Equipment Support Specialist Intern Kayla Griggs, Biomedical Engineer Intern Additional information provided through the assigned Contracting Officer. Information Instructions: All questions or concerns to this SOURCES SOUGHT notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Victoria Rone, Contract Specialist at: Victoria.Rone3@va.gov by Monday, December 2, 2013, 10:00 AM CST. All confirmations and responses of attendance to the vendor show must be received by Monday, December 9, 2011, 3:30 PM CST in order to be considered. ANY RESPONSES RECEIVED AFTER THAT DATE AND TIME WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. Disclaimer and Important Notes: This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this RFI that is marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in the response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. Respondents will be added to the prospective offerors list for any subsequent solicitation. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. All offerors who provide goods or services to the U.S. Federal Government must be registered in SAM (System for Award Management) located on the web at https://www.sam.gov and the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA). Additionally, all Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses or Veteran Owned Businesses who respond to a solicitation for this project must be registered with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for Veterans Enterprise VetBiz Registry located at http://vip.vetbiz.gov. Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary information in any resultant solicitation(s).
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/NaVAMC/VAMCCO80220/VA24914I0133/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA249-14-I-0133 VA249-14-I-0133.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=1096152&FileName=VA249-14-I-0133-000.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=1096152&FileName=VA249-14-I-0133-000.docx

 

Note: If links are broken, refer to Point of Contact above or contact the FBO Help Desk at 877-472-3779.
 

Place of Performance

Address: VAMC Memphis;1030 Jefferson Avenue;Memphis, Tennessee

Zip Code: 38104
 

Record

SN03238066-W 20131122/131120234723-4fa63f5b54bcaebb8e9f42d32513b0c5 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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