NX EQ Aspirators Airway Product Description SC 8.11.docx

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

For

NON-EXPENDABLE EQUIPMENT:

Aspirators: Airway

Prepared By:

Strategic Acquisition Center Department of Veterans Affairs 10300 Spotsylvania Avenue, Suite 400 Fredericksburg, VA 22408

1. SCOPE OF WORK:

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Non-Expendable Equipment National Program has identified the Aspirators: Airway product line as a candidate for a VA-wide (otherwise referred to as “national”) single Requirements contract award Hospitals use Aspirators: Airway on crash carts and in areas that do not have access to the central vacuum system. Portable Aspirators: Airway are used to remove obstructing secretions, blood, or vomitus from a patient's airway to keep air passages to the lungs open and to allow spontaneous or mechanical ventilation. Suctioning can be either oropharyngeal (to prepare for emergency intubation or to remove secretions from the upper airway above the glottis) or tracheal (to remove secretions and to maintain the airway of an intubated patient).

The Contractor must demonstrate the ability to meet all requirements for the solicitation. The objective is to provide Aspirators: Airway to be used by clinicians throughout the VA medical centers and facilities. The period of performance is for one (1) 12-month base period with four (4) twelve (12) month option periods.

2. REQUIREMENT

This requirement will be IAW FAR clause 52.211-6, “Brand Name or Equal” which requires the quoter indicate that each product being offered as an “equal” product to the Aspirators: Airway. For each equal product, the offeror must include a description reflecting the salient characteristics (SC) and level of quality that will satisfy the salient physical, functional, or performance characteristics of the equal product(s) specified in the solicitation. The quoter must also clearly identify the item by brand name (if any) and make/model number. Finally, the quoter must include descriptive literature, such as illustrations, drawings, or a clear reference to previously furnished descriptive data or information available to the contracting officer, and clearly describe any modifications it plans to make to a product to make it conform to the solicitation requirements.

SSCOR

SSCOR

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking vendors who can provide Aspirators: Airway as listed above or equal commodities which meet all the following salient characteristics:

CLIN 0001 and CLIN 0002 apply to the following SC’s:

SSCOR

Duet Allied OptiVac

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