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Sources Sought Notice Sources Sought Notice

GENERAL INFORMATION

VA Healthcare System Network Contracting Office (NCO) 10 2780 Airport Dr, Suite 340 Columbus OH 43219

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contract Specialist Shelton Beasley shelton.beasley@va.gov 614-257-5829 none

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

VA Healthcare System

LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center

2215 Fuller Road

Ann Arbor MI

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

DESCRIPTION

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS, seeking responses from small businesses of all types. This announcement seeks information from the industry, which will be used for market research purposes. No quotes/proposals are being requested or accepted with his synopsis. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS/QUOTES AND NO CONTRACT /PURCHASE ORDER SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS. Respondents will not be notified of the results of this synopsis.

The Ann Arbor VA Medical Center (VAMC), is seeking small business concerns (authorized by the manufacturer) to sell the VAMC a new osmometer . Specifically, the osmometer must have the following salient characteristics.

Unit must use freezing point depression method to determine the osmolality of aqueous-based solution serum, plasma, and urine.

Unit must have an interactive color touchscreen user interface.

Unit must have the ability to run no less than 500 specimens or more without user input, with continuous loading, unloading and automated pipetting.

Unit must have the ability to run an urgent specimen and produce immediate results at any time, including when the unit is fully loaded with specimens awaiting testing.

Unit must be able to run directly from the primary specimen tubes without the need for sample pipetting.

Unit must automatically calibrate.

Technical support services must be available 24 hours a day / 7 days a week, at no additional cost to the VA.

Unit must automatically, quickly, self-clean between the samples.

Unit must allow for programable replicate testing from the primary specimen tube.

The unit’s minimum required sample volume must be 200µL or less.

The unit must have an integrated barcode scanner.

The unit’s ability to interface must be compatible with the VA Electronic Health Record Management (EHRM), Cerner, Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for computers.

The unit must have enhanced Laboratory Information System (LIS) and data management capability allowing for results to cross into the VA’s information technology (IT) network.

The unit’s maximum footprint must be 14.0” x 16.5” x 18” inches, or less, including all accessories and peripherals so that it easily fit on a bench and does not occupy too much bench space.

The VAMC’s goal is to get fair and reasonable pricing. Therefore, we are soliciting small businesses, of all types, to determine the appropriate set-aside (if any) necessary to fulfill the VAMC’s needs. To assist the VAMC in making an accurate determination, we must know your firm’s interest.

In order to be eligible, interested parties must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) data base at https://sam.gov. For firms claiming SDVOSB or VOSB classification status, they must also be registered and certified through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Small Business Search database, located at: https://search.certifications.sba.gov/ The North American Industry Classification (NAICS) code for this potential acquisition is 334516 - Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing - which currently has a small business size standard of 1,000 employees.

Interested parties responding to this Sources Sought Notice shall submit as much of the following information as possible:

Company name and address, point of contact with phone number, email address and SAM Unique Entity Identifier Proof of registration in the SAM and SBA websites or intention of registration prior to submission of offers to a potential solicitation;

If your firm has a history or is contemplating joining with a partner for this requirement, we ask that you detail that arrangement as well to allow the Government to make the most well informed decision possible. In this event, we advise that you thoroughly investigate whether or not a partnership would affect your business size standard.

The response date to this Sources Sought notice is December 24, 2025 at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. This market research is for informational and planning purposes only to determine if there are adequate, qualified small business concerns, of any type to warrant a set-aside. Hard copy submissions are not acceptable. The Government will not pay any costs for responses submitted. Electronic submissions are acceptable and may be directed to shelton.beasley@va.gov All inquiries regarding this Sources Sought Notice should be directed to the same email address.

NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE OTHER THAN WHAT IS NOTED HEREIN. CONCERNS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO CALL THE INDIVIDUAL VAMC, REQUESTING MORE INFORMATION.

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