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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF MAY 23, 2014 FBO #4563
SOLICITATION NOTICE

65 -- Human-Worn Partial Task Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Simulator (TCCC Cut Suit)

Notice Date

5/21/2014
 

Notice Type

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
 

NAICS

339999 — All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Other Defense Agencies, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES (USUHS), 4301 JONES BRIDGE ROAD, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814-4799, United States
 

ZIP Code

20814-4799
 

Solicitation Number

HU0001-14-Q-0212
 

Archive Date

6/14/2014
 

Point of Contact

Melissa Marcellus,
 

E-Mail Address

Melissa.Marcellus@usuhs.edu
(Melissa.Marcellus@usuhs.edu)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

The Department of Military and Emergency Medicine (MEM) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) located on the Naval Support Activity in Bethesda, MD has a requirement for the purchase of four (4) Human-Worn TCCC Cut Suits. The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is the Nation's federal health sciences university and is committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war. We provide the Nation with health professionals dedicated to career service in the Department of Defense and the United States Public Health Service and with scientists who serve the common good. We serve the uniformed services and the Nation as an outstanding academic health sciences center with a worldwide perspective for education, research, service, and consultation; we are unique in relating these activities to military medicine, disaster medicine, and military medical readiness. This supply will be procured in accordance with the procedures of FAR Part 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures. Sole source determination is made in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b) : (b) Soliciting from a single source. (1) For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. (i) Contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available (e.g., urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand-name or industrial mobilization). MEM will utilize the Cut Suits throughout the medical students' 4-year curriculum. These courses currently do not offer students the ability to care for live, human patients. The Cut Suits will address that shortage for all courses. FTC 101: Students will utilize the Cut Suit trainers as an initial exposure to emergency skill development. This will occur during their initial field exercise during October of their MS1 year. Combat Medical Skills: CMS is a nine-lesson course that covers the basics of initial assessment and management for severely injured casualties. We teach a variety of procedural skills, nearly all of which can be performed with the Cut Suit. The Cut Suit will greatly enhance realism and procedural competence for our students and will be fully integrated into the course. FTC 102: This is a 10-day, intensive course combining trauma skills training and resuscitative medicine (ACLS & BLS) taught during the summer between first and second years. It re-emphasizes and enhances skills learned during CMS. The Cut Suit simulators are essential for the "capstone" tactical combat casualty care exercise the students complete at the course's end. FTC 201: MEM is planning to execute this new exercise during the BBB period between the clerkship and post-clerkship periods. This will include field training that will strongly benefit by using the Cut Suit. Operation Bushmaster (FTC 202): The capstone event of the USU Operational Military Medicine (OMM) curriculum. This solution provides a superior "hyper-realistic" simulation in one of the most complex training exercises in military medicine. By adding the "Cut Suit" to the training, we will be adding the most realistic way to simulate the look and feel of severe traumatic events on a live human while allowing medical students to safely perform real procedures. From the point of injury (POI), where self-aid and buddy-aid are rendered, the MS4 students render aid, transport patients, and transition their care to a Battalion Aid Station. Emergency Medicine Clerkship: This is a mandatory 4th year clinical rotation completed by all students. All students rotating in the National Capital Area complete a mandatory simulation laboratory at the USUHS Simulation Center. The simulation day consists of skills training and patient management using task trainers and high-fidelity simulators. With the new Wide Area Virtual Environment (WAVE) at the Simulation Center, we would build scenarios to place the Cut Suit models into a virtual reality. Students could then perform invasive care on live patients in a hyper-realistic surrounding, thereby enhancing their education. Strategic Operations, Inc. (STOPS) is the sole manufacturer of the TCCC Cut Suit. ADS is the sole distributor for the TCCC Cut Suit for STOPS' Government customers. The Cut Suit is a combat trauma trainer. Students can perform a host of invasive, resuscitative procedures to the suits. This training occurs while an actor wearing the suit can interact with the trainers (talking, screaming, etc., just as real patient would). We are not aware of any other simulators that can be worn by human actors, and allow trainees to perform critical, invasive combat medical skills in this manner. It provides a hyper-realistic hybrid simulation environment. It is in the Government's best interests to issue an award to ADS, the distributor for STOPS for the purchase of these Cut Suits. This is not a request for quotes and a solicitation package will not be issued. Sources interested in responding to this requirement must be able to provide compelling evidence that they can provide the above-mentioned requirement as specified. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contractual action based upon responses received is solely within the discretion of the Government. Responses must be received via email at melissa.marcellus@usuhs.edu by 1 0:00am EST on 30 May 2014.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/notices/b40b12c5df0f09b3a95cf4a87afdc953)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814-4712, United States

Zip Code: 20814-4712
 

Record

SN03372837-W 20140523/140521234859-b40b12c5df0f09b3a95cf4a87afdc953 (fbodaily.com)
 

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