Special Notice Notice of Intent to Award a Single-Source Procurement The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 17, Network Contracting Office (NCO) 17, located at 5441 Babcock Road, Ste. 302, San Antonio, TX 78240 intends to solicit and award a single-source firm-fixed priced service maintenance agreement for one (1) base year and four (4) option years to Stryker for the following equipment: 0001: Docking Station Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 SERIAL #: 1405605853 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0002: Docking Station Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 SERIAL #: 1405605793 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0003: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404603043 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0004: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404603013 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0005: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404603003 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0006: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404602943 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0007: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404602933 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0008: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404602883 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0009: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404602863 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0010: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404602843 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0011: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404306433 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0012: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404306423 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0013: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1404306343 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments 0014: Smoke Evacuation Surgical Waste Management System MODEL #: Neptune 2 Rover Ultra SERIAL #: 1403602693 MANUFACTURER: Stryker Instruments Brief Service Description: Contractor shall provide 24 hours, seven-day customer service and a technician is to respond within one (1) hour once the call for service is reported. Technical support and assistance is to be available within 30 minutes of a telephone request for troubleshooting assistance. Services are to include electrical safety inspections, troubleshooting, repair, performance of twice annual preventive maintenance inspections (PMI), calibrations with certified calibration checks and replacement of defective parts with priority one-day shipping. Must provide loaners via overnight shipping. Contractor is to provide 95 percent or more of all services, parts hardware, proprietary software, and labor. Adherence to Joint Commission Accreditation Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) and Original Equipment Manufacturer s standards is mandatory. Service location: South Texas Veterans Health Care Systems; Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital; 7400 Merton Minter Boulevard; San Antonio, Texas 78229-4404. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 811219 Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance with a Small Business Size Standard of $20.5M. This action is accomplished under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), Soliciting from a Single-Source . This notice is not to be considered a request for quotations or proposals. No contract will be awarded based on offers received in response to this notice; however, any offers received may be used to determine if a comparable source is available and more advantageous to the government. All responsible sources may submit a response; which, if timely received, will be considered by the agency. If parties choose to respond, any cost associated with preparation and submission of data or cost incurred in response to this announcement shall be the sole responsibility of the contractor and will not be reimbursed by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. If no affirmative written response is received by the response date and time, a purchase order will be issued to Stryker without any further notice. Interested firms must respond directly to
[email protected] no later than 12:00 P.M. CDT on 22 June 2018.