The VANTHCS will procure healing abutments and implants fromBiomet 3I for veteran patient care on consignment.

The Department Of Veterans Affairs, VISN 17, intends to negotiateand awardan anticipated sole source procurement to Biomet 3I, Inc. at 4555RiversideDrive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410-4200, for NanoTite Certain ParallelWall Implants and Certain One-Piece Healing Abutments. This procurementwill be processed under simplified acquisition procedures and Other ThanFull and Open competition, as authorized by FAR 6.302-1. NAICS Code is339114, and the SBA standard is 500 employees. No solicitation will beissued. No telephone requests will be accepted and no written documentswill be availble. A determination by the Government not to compete thisrequirement based on responses to this notice is solely within thediscretion of the Government. Information received will be consideredsolely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitiveprocurement. For information regarding this procurement, please contactMichael Willcut @ 214-857-0035 or via email: [email protected].