A--Pittsburgh Veterans Engineering Resource Center (VERC) Requirements Contract

Notice Type: Special Notice The Veteran's Administration Office of Research and Development, Program Contracting Office - located in VISN 4 at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is a request for a Requirements contract in accordance with FAR 16.503. The requirement is for medical engineering support for Veteran's Health Administration medical study projects. The sole source is pursuant to FAR 6.302-3 (a) (2) (ii) Full and Open Competition need not be provided for when it is necessary to award the contract to a particular source or sources in order to establish or maintain an essential engineering, research, or development capability to be provided by an educational or other nonprofit institution or a federally funded research and development center. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals, however; any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than Monday, February 2, 2015 (4:00PM. E.S.T.). Interest/capability statements may be sent to Jeffrey Zbezinski at [email protected]. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.