Boston Scientific Cardiovascular Products and Ancillary Accessories
Added: Jun 03, 2015 2:57 pm The goal of the Manufacturer Direct Program is to establish an alternative to manual open market purchase activity, re-engineer the business process with automated e-commerce business solution. The objective of this solicitation is to establish a Fixed Price (with Economic Price Adjustment) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract with Boston Scientific for their Cardiovascular Productsthat fall into the following product categories; Interventional Cardiology (IC), Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM), Electophysiology (EP) and Peripheral Intervention (PI) as well as Boston Scientifics cardiovascular and ancillary accessories (such as needles for entry, guide wire, etc.) that are necessary for the physician to perform cardiovascular surgery. Other Boston Scientific cardiovascular groups determined to be in the scope of the contract may be solicited at a future date under this solicitation.This solicitation contains an on-site personnel requirement for the contractor to provide advice and guidance to physician's before, during and after implantation of the device at the request of the Medical Treatment Facility. Technical support shall be available twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week.Market Research has revealed that there are no other manufacturers or distributors other than Boston Scientific who can provide DoD hospitals with the cardiovascular products at the required time for surgery and be available on-site if needed to answer questions on all these products. The Boston Scientific Sales Representatives are experts on Boston Scientific's products and are a vital part of helping to ensure that the patient is getting the necessary treatment.Boston Scientific will have their product line loaded into the DLA Troop Support Medical Electronic Catalog (ECAT). All Orders, Order Acknowledgements and Invoice transactions are required to be electronic. Items will be delivered to various Department of Defense (DoD) research centers, hospitals, and clinics, and any federal customer participating in this program.The term of the contract will be a one-year Base Period and four one-year unilateral Option Periods. This procurement has an estimated value of $6.3 million for the Base Period, $9.5 million for the first option period, $10.4 million for the second option period, $10.5 million for the third option period, and $10.6 million for the fourth option period, for a total of approximately $47.3 million over the five-year life of the procurement. The contract maximum is $71,034,463.00 over the 5 year life of the contract. Solicitation SPE2DE-15-R-0002 is expected to be issued June 18, 2015 and can be found on the DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS) at https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil. The point of contact is Charles Reimer, DLA Troop Support-FSCB, 215-737-3829. The solicitation may not become available until the solicitation issue date. SPE2DE-15-R-0002 Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical
6/3/15, 2:57 PM Boston Scientifics Cardiovascular Products
Added: Feb 12, 2015 11:17 am The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support is seeking sources capable of providing Boston Scientific's cardiovascular product line that fall into the following product categories; Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Rhythm Management, Electophysiology and Peripheral Intervention. Along with the products in these categories the vendor must be capable of supplying the ancillary accessories (such as needles for entry and guide wire) that are necessary for the physician to perform cardiovascular surgery. Tough Market Research it has been determined that these cardiovascular items (i.e. stents, balloons, catheters etc) are frequently ordered based upon "physician preference/experience", whereby other factors that would normally affect the decision to purchase the items on a competitive basis (i.e. price) are usually not considered when ordering. A physician's decision to use a particular manufacturer's cardiovascular products is primarily based on the technical characteristics of the product that is expected to produce a higher quality of life for their patient's or achieve therapeutic results. Once trained and comfortable with a particulars manufacturer's cardiovascular products, the physician will likely use that manufacturer's products for the duration of their career.The ancillary accessories such as needles for entry and guide wire could technically be interchangeable between manufacturers. Cardiovascular manufacturers provide these ancillary accessories because they are used with the other products mentioned above and are necessary for the physician to perform cardiovascular surgery. The majority of physicians use the same manufacturers cardiovascular accessories (both the ones mentioned above and the ancillary accessories) for the entire surgery. All applicable cardiovascular products must be Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved. There are (3) tee delivery method (Just-In-Time (JIT), Direct Vendor Delivery (DVD) and Consignment Agreement) used to support Medical Treatment Facilities (MTF) requirements for cardiovascular products. Under the JIT method, the MTF calls the manufacturer sales representative when a surgery is scheduled to discuss the case, make a products selection and inform him or her of the surgery date and time. The manufacturer sales representative will either "carry-in" or "ship" the cardiovascular products necessary for implantation to the designated site at the scheduled time. Depending on the type of surgery, the representative may have in the MTF's possession a number of "back-up" components available to the physician's during the entire procedure. Under the DVD method, MTF's may order products in advance of a scheduled surgery or purchase replacement inventory on an as needed basis. Under this method all items are packaged for shipment to the delivery point cited on the purchase order. Under the Consignment delivery method the cardiovascular products are placed in the MTF's, who only pay for the products that are actually used during the surgery. Depending on the complexity of the surgical procedure, a qualified sales representative will be on site at the MTF, if requested by the surgeon. The representative provides technical and product information to physicians before, during and after implantation. However, product related support is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week despite the delivery method utilized to deliver the product. This is a Request For Information (RFI) and does not commit the U.S. Government to issue a solicitation, make an award, or pay any costs associated with responding to this announcement. All submitted information shall remain with the U.S. Government and will not be returned. Your response to this RFI may be submitted electronically in pdf format and emailed to charles.reimer@dla.mil. SPE2DE15R0002 Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical
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