SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. It is neither a solicitation announcement nor a request for proposals or quotes and shall not obligate the Government to award a contract. The purpose of this Sources Sought Announcement is for market research to gain knowledge of potential interested sources with the capability to perform the work under the North American Classification System (NAICS) Code 621512 (Diagnostic Imaging Centers) with a size standard of $15.0M or less. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 6) is seeking potential sources to provide all labor, material, tools, equipment, maintenance and repair of all Contractor furnished equipment (including a mobile trailer/unit), specialized staff, training, required supplies, and medications/drugs necessary to perform Positron Emission Tomography/Computerized Tomography (PET/CT) Services at Hampton, VA (VAMC) and Salem, VA (VAMC) with options to service additional medical centers/outpatient clinics within VISN 6 as needed. Contractor furnished equipment shall include but not be limited to a fully equipped PET/CT Mobile Trailer where studies will be performed on a PET/CT scanner manufactured in or after 2007 and a PET/CT review station and fusion software to be placed within each medical center obtaining service. The types of exams expected to be performed on the Contractor provided PET/CT system shall include but not be limited to: oncology related PET/CT exams, imaging of cardiac metabolism with F-18 FDG, and brain imaging with F-18 FDG. The Contractor shall meet all Federal, State and Local codes and requirements for the operation of this service and equipment provided. Contractor personnel performing services shall be licensed and/or registered in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia and meet Nuclear Medicine Technologist professional qualifications. Contractor personnel shall include, but not be limited to certified Nuclear Medicine Technologists (ARRT and/or NMTCB) and support and driver staff. Potential Sources who are interested and capable of providing the above services must demonstrate their experience and knowledge of the required services and their capability to provide such services. Potential sources should identify business name, point of contact, business size and business socio-economic category (i.e. Small Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Veteran Owned Small Business, 8(a), Hub Zone, Women Owned Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, etc.), service capability statement, information from recent and relevant projects similar in nature, DUNS number, company address and any additional information felt to be pertinent. Responses to this Sources Sought will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions to enable maximum competition. After review of the responses to this Sources Sought Announcement, a solicitation announcement may be published at www.fbo.gov website. Responses to this Sources Sought Announcement are not considered adequate responses for any solicitation announcement that may result from this notice. Interested offerors should respond to this Sources Sought announcement and to any resulting solicitation for this requirement. Responses to this notice should be limited to five (5) pages and Reference Sources Sought (PET/CT) 2018 , be in PDF or Word format and send via email to
[email protected]. Telephone responses will not be accepted. Responses must be received no later than 1:00 pm (EDT), June 15, 2018. This notice is to assist the VA in determining sources only. A solicitation is not currently available. Once a solicitation is issued, it will be announced separately from this announcement. NOTE: Businesses must be registered in System for Award Management (SAM) and SDVOSB and VOSB must be registered in VetBiz at http://www.VetBiz.gov. Please limit submission to five (5) pages.