Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Contracting Office (90C), Hampton, Va 23667

70 -- DIGITIZER/TELERADIOLOGY SYSTEM SOL 590-14-00 DUE 042500 POC Barbara Simmons (757)728-3115 E-MAIL: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, barbara.simmons@med.va.gov. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation, proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number 590-14-00 is issuesd as a request for proposal and incorporates provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-16 (Feb 2000). The Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC) is 5045. The small business size is 100 employees. This is solicitation is set-aside for small businesses. The contractor will provide (1) one RadWorks Data Acquisition Workstation (or equal) with frame grab board Howtek which includes a Pentium III 500 Mhz, 128 MB Ram, 18GB HDD, 40X CD Rom, 10/100 Network Interface Card, 8MB Video, 21" SBGA monitor, frame grab board, Howtek 450 film digitizer, 56K modem, UPS, Windows NT workstation 4.0, PC anywhere, Norton Antivirus adn (2)one RadWorks standard 5.0 software. Cost proposal shall include F.O.B. destination, integration installation, testing,training, and any software upgrades for a period of six months. Support coverage will be 24/7/365 phone support (one hour call back) with on site response within twenty-fours hours if required. Warranty shall include full parts, labor, and travel for a minimum of twelve months from the date of installation. The government will provide the contractor with the laptop for integration and testing. The system must be fully compatible with the system in use at the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia in order to allow for the transfer of both images and reports between facilities. The following FAR and VAAR clauses/provisions apply to this acquisition: 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items: 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items, paragraph (a) is completed as follows: the VAMC Hampton will award a contract resulting from this solicitation that will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors, listed in descending order of importance shall be used to evaluate the offers presented: (1) compability with other RadWorks software systems (2) years of experience working with RadWorks systems (3) image resolution (4) speed of data acquisition (5) digitizer scanning and transmitting capabilities (6) price; 52.212-3 Offerors Representation and Certifications-Commercial Items; 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial ITems; 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions to Implement Statutes of Executive Orders-Commercial Items, the following FAR clauses cited in this clause are applicable to this acquisition: 52.222-26 Equal Opportunity, 52.222-35 Affirmative Action for Disabled Veteran and Veterans of the VietNam Era, 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities, 52.222-37 Employment Reports on Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era, 52.225-3 Buy American Act-North American Free Trade Agreement-Israeli Trade Act-Balance of Payments Program ALternate II, 52.224-5 Buy American Act-North American Free Trade Agreement-Israeli Trade Act-Balance of Payments Program Certificate, 52.323-34 Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer -- Other than Central Contractor Registration. These clauses can be found at http://www.arnet.gov.far The following VAAR clauses are also incorporated: 852.219-70 Veteran Owned Small Business, 852.270-4 Commercial Advertising. Companies wishing to respond to this solicitation must provide this office with the following: (1) a price quote on company letterhead showing the solicitation number, prompt payment terms, remittance address, and DUNS number (2) a technical proposal addressing the factors listed above to include any descriptive literature and technical data sheets necessary for the agency to determine whether the product offered meets the requirements (3) a completed copy of FAR 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items. Offerors are hereby on notice that the Governmentmay elect to award a contract with discussions or presentation. Offers are to be mailed to Barbara Simmons, Contracting Office, Building 27, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hampton, Virginia 23667 and are due in this office by 4:00pm local time April 25 2000. Posted 04/14/00 (W-SN445316). (0105)

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