SOLICITATION NOTICE
65 -- Radioactive Flood Sources, STL
- Notice Date
- 12/30/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 325180
— Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Heartland Network, Department of Veterans Affairs Heartland Network, VISN 15 (10N15-90), 4101 South 4th Street Trafficway, Leavenworth, Kansas, 66048
- ZIP Code
- 66048
- Solicitation Number
- VA255-14-Q-0182
- Archive Date
- 1/12/2014
- Point of Contact
- David Stringer,
- E-Mail Address
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david.stringer@va.gov
(david.stringer@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs NETWORK Contracting Office 15 is seeking potential vendors for the purchase of Radioactive Flood Sources for use on the Gamma Cameras. **This sources sought notice is for information and planning purposes only. It does not constitute a solicitation and is not to be considered as a commitment by the Government. All firms responding to this sources sought notice are advised that their response to this notice is not a request that will be considered for contract award. ** Location: Department of Veterans Affairs Saint Louis VAMC, John Cochran, 915 N Grand Blvd, DIS Room B201, Saint Louis, MO 63106-1621. If you can meet all of the requirements for this purchase, please respond to this sources sought by email to Mr. David Stringer. The e-mail address is david.stringer@va.gov. Responses must be received no later than 3:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, on 01 Jan 2014. The following information is required: 1. Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) & Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) (This information can be obtained from your Central Contractor Registration). 2. Name of firm w/address, phone and email address of point of contact. 3. State if your company is a certified 8(a), Small Disadvantaged Business, HubZone Small Business, or Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business. 4. Provide product brochures that demonstrate that your product can meet the requirements for this purchase. No telephone responses will be accepted. Statement of Requirements This solicitation uses a Brand Name or Equal Description of the product required. This permits prospective contractors to offer products other than those specifically referenced by brand name. All offers must be compatible with existing equipment that has already been purchased and is currently in use at the station. Statement of Work DIS Nuclear Medicine Department, Radioactive Quality Control Sources General Function(s): Radioactive sources: Co57,1.85MBq (50uCi) & Gd153, 370MBq(10mCi) are needed in order for our Siemens Symbia SPECT/CT Gamma Camera to function according to the manufacturer's recommendation. These sources are housed internally in the camera & are used for monthly, weekly, and daily quality control, to ensure the camera is functioning correctly and safely and that image quality is produced accurately. These sources decay as does anything radioactive & will need to be replaced each year. Without these sources the Symbia SPECT/CT camera may not function correctly thus producing substandard images and potentially becoming a hazard to the patient, if continued to be used. Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT, or less commonly, SPET) is a nuclear medicine tomographic [1] imaging technique using gamma rays. It is very similar to conventional nuclear medicine planar imaging using a gamma camera. However, it is able to provide true 3D information. This information is typically presented as cross-sectional slices through the patient, but can be freely reformatted or manipulated as required. The basic technique requires delivery of a gamma-emitting radioisotope (called radionuclide ) into the patient, normally through injection into the bloodstream. On occasion, the radioisotope is a simple soluble dissolved ion, such as a radioisotope of gallium(III), which happens to also have chemical properties that allow it to be concentrated in ways of medical interest for disease detection. However, most of the time in SPECT, a marker radioisotope, which is of interest only for its radioactive properties, has been attached to a specific ligand to create a radioligand, which is of interest for its chemical binding properties to certain types of tissues. This marriage allows the combination of ligand and radioisotope (the radiopharmaceutical ) to be carried and bound to a place of interest in the body, which then (due to the gamma-emission of the isotope) allows the ligand concentration to be seen by a gamma-camera.
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