SPECIAL NOTICE
66 -- FVAMC Cepheid Service Agreement
- Notice Date
- 11/7/2022 8:04:42 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 339112
— Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- 246-NETWORK CONTRACTING OFFICE 6 (36C246) HAMPTON VA 23667 USA
- ZIP Code
- 23667
- Solicitation Number
- 36C24623Q0140
- Archive Date
- 11/10/2022
- Point of Contact
- Serina Black, Contract Specialist, Phone: 757-315-3965
- E-Mail Address
-
serina.black1@va.gov
(serina.black1@va.gov)
- Awardee
- null
- Description
- INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE The Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office (NCO) 6, Fayetteville Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) intends to enter into a sole source procurement with Cepheid, 904 Caribbean Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. NAICS 339112 Surgical and Medical Instruments Manufacturing. The proposed contract action is to provide service on Government owned equipment to include maintenance service, labor, parts, transportation, tools, software upgrades, repairs, and delivery of DNA/RNA test kits/products in support of Automated Real-Time DNA/RNA Testing at the Fayetteville Medical Centers and Health Care Centers. The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b), Soliciting from a single source. Contract will be for a period of performance November 19, 2022 - November 18, 2023, with four 1-year options. This notice of intent is not a request for quotation. Interested parties may identify their interest in the requirement and capabilities to serina.black1@va.gov no later than 3:00 PM EST, November 10th, 2022. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. All information shall be furnished at no cost or obligation to the government. (a) Gray market items are Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) goods sold through unauthorized channels in direct competition with authorized distributors. This procurement is for new OEM medical supplies, medical equipment and/or services contracts for maintenance of medical equipment (i.e. replacement parts) for VA Medical Centers. No remanufacture or gray market items will be acceptable. (b) Vendor shall be an OEM, authorized dealer, authorized distributor or authorized reseller for the proposed medical supplies, medical equipment and/or services contracts for maintenance of medical equipment (i.e. replacement parts), verified by an authorization letter or other documents from the OEM, such that the OEM s warranty and service are provided and maintained by the OEM. All software licensing, warranty and service associated with the medical supplies, medical equipment and/or services contracts for maintenance of medical equipment shall be in accordance with the OEM terms and conditions. (c) The delivery of gray market items to the VA in the fulfillment of an order/award constitutes a breach of contract. Accordingly, the VA reserves the right to enforce any of its contractual remedies. This includes termination of the contract or, solely at the VA s election, allowing the Vendor to replace, at no cost to the Government, any remanufactured or gray market item(s) delivered to a VA medical facility upon discovery of such items. No solicitation will be made available. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the government not to complete this proposed contract based upon responses to the notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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- Record
- SN06511065-F 20221109/221107230057 (samdaily.us)
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