Purchase Order 36C24624P1593

This contract award is to Fujifilm Visualsonics Corp, a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of advanced medical imaging technologies. The $346,033 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 6 on behalf of the Richmond VAMC. The contract is for the delivery of a Small Animal Ultrasound Vevo F2 system, which must have the capability to capture, store, and analyze precise 3-D and 4-D images of small and larger animal species, with functions to monitor physiological data, perform imaging and analysis, and export data. The system must also have an integrated anesthesia system. This contract award was the result of a pre-solicitation market research notice that did not use any set-aside designations.