--The North Atlantic Regional Contracting Office Intends to award sole source to Olympus America Inc. for medical scopes and accessories. POC: CPT Chris L. Newell at [email protected].

This is the only equipment that is compatible with the scopes, lightsources and video processors that the Walter Reed GI Clinic currently uses. The gastroscope is the thinnest video gastriscope made and has a 6mm biopsy/suction channel. The colonos cope has 170-degree field of view. All scopes also have the variable stiffness feature. The Olympus ultrasound probe is the only one compatible with the ultrasound processor currently in use by the GI Clinic