SOURCES SOUGHT
65 -- Zeiss Visual Field Analyzer
- Notice Date
- 1/26/2021 8:25:10 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 339112
— Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- 256-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 16 (36C256) RIDGELAND MS 39157 USA
- ZIP Code
- 39157
- Solicitation Number
- 36C25621Q0391
- Response Due
- 1/29/2021 2:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 02/13/2021
- Point of Contact
- Shannon West, Phone: 3184662086
- E-Mail Address
-
shannon.west1@va.gov
(shannon.west1@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- SBA Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
- Description
- Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 16 - ALEXANDRIA In Support of the Alexandria VA Medical Center (AVAMC) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 36C25621Q0391 Zeiss Visual Field Analyzer. �Background: The Alexandria VA Medical Center (AVAMC) is requesting an Zeiss Visual Field Analyzer to perform visual field exams for the Service Care Line. �Place of Performance: Alexandria VA Medical Center, 2495 Shreveport Hwy 71, Pineville, LA. 71360 Item # Description/Part Number/Service* Qty Price Extended Amount 0001 Salient Characteristics for Zeiss HFA Model 860: �Suggested Manufacturer Brand Name; Zeiss or EQUIVALENT as listed below: ITEM SPECIFICATIONS FEATURES: Blind spot monitor, Video Eye Monitor, Gaze and head tracking, Vertex monitor, Touchscreen display, Keyboard, Stimulus: White on white, red or blue on white and blue on yellow, General testing Features:� Stimulus sizes, foveal threshold testing, automatic pupil measurement, liquid trial lens (auto TLC), releye eye review, User defined storage,� Desktop Printer: Postscript printer support for network capable printer, 500 GB hard drive, weight minimum 60 pounds not to exceed 65 pounds, Height 20 to 30 inches, Width 20 to 30 inches, Depth minimum of 18 inches, 100 to 120 V operating system Meets UL standards, Technical Specifications: Maximum temporal degree range 90, Stimulus duration 200 ms, Visual field-testing distance 30 cm, Background illumination 31.5 ASB, Threshold test library(24-2, 30-2, 10-2 Maculaq)(60-4, Nasal step), Threshold test strategies: SITA standard, Fast, Faster, Full threshold, Fastpac, SWAP, Suprathreshold test library range (C40, C76<C80, C64, C Armaly and Peripheral test patterns), Specialty test: monocular, binocular, Esterman monocular, binocular, superior 36, 64. Kinetic testing. Custom kinetic and static testing.� Installation:� All work and installation will be coordinated with the COR and/or OI&T, and Biomedical Engineering groups. Phasing and work schedule will be provided and coordinated with the COR. A detailed installation schedule will be provided during a project implementation kick-off meeting. The vendor will confine operations (including storage of materials) on Government premises to areas authorized and approved by the Contracting Officer and/or COR. The Contractor shall hold and save the Government, its officers and agents, free and harmless from liability of any nature occasioned by the Contractor�s performance. Working space and space available shall be as determined by the COR. REQUESTED RESPONSES: The intent of this Request for Information is to establish sources to define the procurement strategy (e.g set-aside, sole source, unrestricted) for a solicitation that VA intends to post soon. Interested contractors are requested to respond in accordance with the following: Please respond to this RFI if you can provide the exact brand name products listed in the table in the background section above. In the response please cite your business size status. If you have an existing GSA or VA, Federal Supply Schedule contract, please include the contract details in your response. DISTRIBUTORS: You must provide proof that you are an authorized distributor. VA does not accept grey market items. Please respond to this RFI if you can provide supplies that may be determined EQUIVALENT to the products listed in the table in the background section above. Please provide details on the proposed EQUIVALENT products such as Manufacturer Name, Part Number, and Description. Please note that VA is particularly interested in determining the availability of Small Business Manufacturers. If your company is a small business manufacturer of potentially equivalent items, please respond to this RFI. Vendors are requested to submit estimated market research pricing with their responses. The estimated pricing will be considered when determining the procurement strategy for the future solicitation. (e.g. if CO determines that capable small businesses cannot provide fair and reasonable pricing, then the solicitation will not be set-aside). Please note that if no responses to this notice are received, from either authorized distributors of the cited brand name nor from manufacturers marketing a potentially equivalent brand, then this action will be sole sourced to the manufacturer cited in the Background section above. CONTACT INFORMATION AND RESPONSE DUE DATE: Please email all responses to Shannon.west1@va.gov. Please respond to this RFI no later than 01/29/2021. DISCLAIMER: This RFI is issued solely for informational and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Department of Veterans Affairs to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Pineville, LA 71360, USA
- Zip Code: 71360
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 71360
- Record
- SN05900600-F 20210128/210126230110 (samdaily.us)
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