ACQUISITION & MATERIEL MANAGEMENT (90C), VA MEDICAL CENTER, 1900 E MAIN ST, DANVILLE, IL 61832-5198

Q -- ON-SITE RADIOLOGY SERVICES PROVIDED TO VA BENEFICIARIES SERVED IN LAFAYETTE, INDIANA SOL 550-11-99 DUE 022399 POC Marietta Hance, Contract Specialist, (217)-431-6536 Notice of Intent to place a sole source contract with Steve Connington, radiological technician. The VA Medical Center, Danville, Illinois will be operating a community-based outpatient clinic on the campus of the Indiana Veterans Nursing Home in Lafayette, Indiana. The clinic will open approximately March or April 1999. Intent to place a sole source contract with the present radiological technician for the Indiana Veterans Nursing Home is based on ease of access and continuity of care for veterans seen at the VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic and patients placed at the nursing home. Radiological equipment is owned and maintained by the Indiana Veterans Nursing Home in Lafayette, Indiana. The present provider of radiological services is allowed to use the x-ray equipment for nursing home patients and for the veterans seen by the VA clinic. Contractors that can furnish the required services are invited to submit in writing an affirmative response clearly stating their ability to fill this requirement. Affirmativeness must be indicated by a statement as to exactly how they would be able to provide these services while maintaining eas of access and continuity of care as stated above. Posted 01/29/99 (I-SN292993). (0029)

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