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Sources Sought Notice Sources Sought Notice

GENERAL INFORMATION

SET-ASIDE

CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS

Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 6 100 Emancipation Drive Hampton VA 23667

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contract Specialist Jonathan Lamb Jonathan.Lamb@va.gov 757-722-9961 ext. 8883

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

508 Fulton Street

Durham NC

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

DESCRIPTION

SOURCES SOUGHT

Sources Sought Only: This is not a request for bids, quotes, or proposals. This is a Sources Sought notice for the identification of potential vendors capable of providing Milk for the Durham VA Healthcare System, 508 Fulton Street, Durham, North Carolina, 27705 in the future.

The purpose of this notice is to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources and their business size classification (HUBZone, 8(a), small, small disadvantaged, small veteran owned, or service-disabled veteran owned small business) relative to NAICS 311511 (Fluid Milk Manufacturing) and the Size Standard of 1,150 Employees. Consistent with Public Law 109-461 VA's ‘Veterans First Contracting Program’, first priority would be given to Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), Veteran Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) and Small Business (SB) concerns, should there be sufficient firms available to compete under a set aside if the requirement goes to solicitation. If insufficient veteran owned and small business response is received to establish the basis for setting this action aside for other than large business participation, then the action will be advertised as full and open competition, in which case, all interested parties responding shall be eligible to bid.

Potential vendors should be capable of supplying the following:

Interested and capable respondents are requested to provide the information below.

· Company name, address, point of contact, phone number,

· SAMs UEI number and DUN’s Number

· List of available products, and business size (small or large business concern).

· Whether or not they are small business manufacturers of the products they wish to offer, or

· Whether or not they are distributors of a small business manufacturer

Failure to provide the above information may result in the potential offeror being considered incapable of meeting the VA’s needs

If the contractor can provide the above items, the contractor shall provide a letter from the manufacturer stating they are an authorized distributor/licenser of their products.

Again, all respondents shall submit capability statement signifying that they meet the above-mentioned specifications. This is strictly market research, and the Government will not entertain questions concerning this market research survey. The Government will not assume any costs incurred by the contractor in the preparation of responses.

All responses shall be submitted in the form of email to Jonathan Lamb, Contracting Specialist at email address: Jonathan.Lamb@va.gov. Please reference “SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE: DURHAM MILK” in subject line. Telephone responses will not be accepted.

Responses must be received in writing no later than July 26th, 2024 05:00 PM, EST.

All contractors interested in doing business with the Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. The website for registration is www.sam.gov.

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses and Veteran-Owned Small Businesses should also indicate whether the company is verified by SBA on VetCert Database at Veteran Small Business Certification (sba.gov).

There is no other information available at this time. Thank you for your interest.

Sources Sought Notice