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580-20-3-517-0074 EMERGENCY COVID-19 SURFACIDE EQUIPMENT

70112 36C25620Q0802 06-25-2020 10:00

CENTRAL TIME, CHICAGO, USA

N 339112 Department of Veterans Affairs Southeast Louisiana Veterans HCS 1555 Poydras Street New Orleans LA 70112 Contracting Officer Winston Graber winston.graber@va.gov 985-212-4296 Michael E. DeBakey Medical Center 2002 Holcombe Blvd Houston, TX. 77030

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

NETWORK CONTRACTING OFFICE (NCO) 16

MICHAEL E. DEBAKEY VA MEDICAL CENTER (VAMC), HOUSTON, TEXAS

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

36C25620Q0802

BACKGROUND:

The Houston VAMC has a requirement for the following BRAND NAME OR EQUAL supplies:

UV-C AUTOMATED DISINFECTION SYSTEM

REQUESTED RESPONSES:

The intent of this Request for Information is to establish sources to define the procurement strategy (e.g. set-aside, sole source, unrestricted) for a solicitation that VA intends to post in the near future. Interested contractors are requested to respond in accordance with the following:

1. Please respond to this RFI if you can provide the exact brand name products listed in the table in the background section above. In the response please cite your business size status.

0. If you have an existing GSA or VA, Federal Supply Schedule contract, please include the contract details in your response.

1. Please respond to this RFI if you can provide supplies that can be determined EQUIVALENT to the products listed in the table in the background section above. Please provide details on the proposed EQUIVALENT products such as Manufacturer Name, Part Number, and Description.

1. If you have an existing GSA or VA, Federal Supply Schedule contract, please include the contract details in your response.

1. Please note that VA is particularly interested in determining the availability of Small Business Manufacturers. If your company is a small business manufacturer of similar items, please respond to this RFI.

CONTACT INFORMATION AND RESPONSE DUE DATE:

Please email all responses to winston.graber@va.gov. Please respond to this RFI no later than June 25, 2020.

DISCLAIMER: This RFI is issued solely for informational and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Department of Veterans Affairs to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI.

SCOPE OF WORK AND GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS

Disinfection System is an automated system used in an unoccupied healthcare environment to disinfect a variety of hard surfaces through UV-C exposure after manually cleaning using traditional cleaning procedures. The use of UV-C energy is well established as an effective germicidal agent and has been tested against several common healthcare associated pathogens, including C. difficle (both vegetative and spore forms), vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), Klebsiella pneumoniaecarbapene

Salient Characteristics: 1. A continuous 254nm wavelength UV-C Disinfection system. 2. The disinfection system shall be able to combine multiple emitters into one single system, operating together or as single emitters operating independently. This is beyond just having multiple emitters in one room. The disinfection system shall be able tomaximize the effectiveness of each emitter to significantly reduce shadows in a sing