SOLICITATION NOTICE
65 -- Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor for VISN 23
- Notice Date
- 8/25/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 423450
— Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- VA National Acquisition Center - Department of Veterans Affairs National Acquisition Center
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- VA79710RP0159
- Response Due
- 9/9/2010
- Archive Date
- 12/8/2010
- Point of Contact
- Amber Zavala
- E-Mail Address
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- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs National Acquisition Center (NAC), Hines, Illinois, has a requirement for a medical/surgical prime vendor program for Medical Centers located in VISN 23. VA intends to award requirements contracts for a base period of 12 months, and two 20-month option periods by December 19, 2010 with an anticipated contract performance period of January 2011. The NAICS code this procurement is 423450. Best-value procedures will be used and award will be made on price and non-priced factors. Offerors will be required to demonstrate their technical capabilities before a technical evaluation panel at the National Acquisition Center, Hines, Illinois approximately two weeks after the closing date of the solicitation. Offerors must possess the experience, capabilities, skills, distribution facilities, products, resources, transportation systems and required web-based ordering systems to service customers with the depth and breadth of medical and surgical product lines required for continued hospital operations. Offerors shall be required to have an on-line catalog of products carried and shall be EDI capable for order entry, order receipt, order confirmation and invoice. Offerors shall have the capability to deliver in bulk and low unit of measure. Clean storage areas for low unit of measure deliveries are a critical requirement of this procurement that must be met by offerors before award is made for those facilities identified as using LUM. Offerors shall be required to provide numerous performance measurement reports, provide a 95%+ fill-rate, provide next-scheduled business day deliveries, have the capabilities to implement the program within 90 days from date of contract award, provide a variety of value-added services and provide socioeconomic opportunities on resultant contracts. The solicitation number VA-797-10-RP-0159 will be available on or about September 13, 2010 for download at the following URL: www.fbo.gov. No paper copies will be available, and no telephone requests for paper copies of the solicitation will be accepted. Interested offerors are advised to continuously check this URL for any changes to the solicitation. The point of contact for this procurement is Amber Zavala, (708) 786-5241. Questions should be emailed to: Amber.Zavala@va.gov.
- Web Link
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(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/VANAC/VANAC/VA79710RP0159/listing.html)
- Record
- SN02254147-W 20100827/100825235139-d43ca8533486928bd5dc72450f5867bb (fbodaily.com)
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