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Sources Sought Notice Sources Sought Notice

GENERAL INFORMATION

SET-ASIDE

NETWORK CONTRACTING OFFICE 23

4801 VETERANS DRIVE

SAINT CLOUD MN 56303

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contracting Officer Traci Johannes traci.johannes@va.gov

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

113 Comanche Road

Fort Meade South Dakota

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

AGENCY’S URL

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DESCRIPTION

Before responding please carefully read and consider the following:

BRAND NAME ONLY ZOLL DEFIBRILLATORS for the Black Hills VA. This is a Sources Sought Announcement Only and no solicitation is currently available. Responses will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After a review of the responses to this Sources Sought Notice, a solicitation announcement may be posted. A response to this Sources Sought Notice is not an adequate reply to a potentially forthcoming solicitation.

All information contained in this Sources Sought Announcement is preliminary, as well as subject to modification, and is in no way binding on the Government. The Government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this request. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. The information requested will be used solely within the Department of Veterans Affairs to facilitate decision making and will not be disclosed outside of the Government. The determination of a procurement strategy, based upon the comments submitted in response to this Sources Sought Announcement, is solely within the discretion of the Government.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 339112, Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing, size standard is 1,000 employees. NOTE: Please ensure that the System for Award Management (SAM) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement.

As this is a service and/or supply acquisition with an estimated total contract cost over the Simplified Acquisition Threshold, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, “…will not pay more than 50 percent of the amount paid by the Government for contract performance to subcontractors that are not similarly situated entities.” See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52.

This acquisition may also be subject to the Service Contract Labor Standards, see FAR 37.107. Additional information is accessible at SAM.gov | Wage Determinations. This acquisition may also be subject to the Nonmanufacturer Rule, see FAR 52.219-33.

Description of Supply or Services

· See attached Statement of Work

Interested firms with the capability of providing the requirement, per applicable subcontracting rule limitations and nonmanufacturer rule, shall submit capability statements so the Government can determine the firm’s experience and capability to provide the requirements. Failure to demonstrate the capability of providing the requirement in response to this market survey may affect the Government’s review of the industry’s ability to perform or provide these requirements.

Firms shall include the following information with their responses:

1. Organization name, unique entity identification (UEI) number, address, socioeconomic category of your firm under the NAICS, email address of a point of contact who can verify the demonstrated capabilities, website address, and telephone number.

2. Capability statement demonstrating the ability to meet the specialized requirements stated in the Statement of Work (see attached) and their expertise in the above-described areas in sufficient detail, including any other specific and relevant information.

3. Copies of any agreements with companies/manufacturer(s) showing authorization to provide required products / services.

4. Small Business respondents indicate the estimate of services/supplies to be subcontracted.

a. What percentage of services/supplies (estimated) would the company perform as the Prime Contractor? __________________%

b. What percentage of services/supplies (estimated) would the company subcontract to other firms? __________________%

5. Identify if your organization is the manufacturer of the requested supplies. If you are not the manufacturer, identify the manufacturer of the supplies that you will provide and their socio-economic category.

a. Fill out the certificate under FAR Provision 52.225-2(b), identifying the item and its country of origin (see attached). If the product is a US domestic end product, write in USA for the item's country of origin.

6. State whether any of the requested services/supplies may be ordered against a government contract awarded to your organization (e.g Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), General Services Administration (GSA), etc.).

7. Provide estimated shipping and delivery information for the requested supplies (e.g. Expected lead time on delivery) Only firms seriously interested and truly capable should send their information described above and any questions by email to traci.johannes@va.gov no later than 4:30PM Central Time, March 20, 2026.

A.1 52.225-2 BUY AMERICAN CERTIFICATE (OCT 2022)

(a)(1) The Offeror certifies that each end product, except those listed in paragraph (b) of this provision, is a domestic end product and that each domestic end product listed in paragraph (c) of this provision contains a critical component.

(2) The Offeror shall list as foreign end products those end products manufactured in the United States that do not qualify as domestic end products. For those foreign end products that do not consist wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both, the Offeror shall also indicate whether these foreign end products exceed 55 percent domestic content, except for those that are COTS items. If the percentage of the domestic content is unknown, select ‘‘no’’.

(3) The Offeror shall separately list the line item numbers of domestic end products that contain a critical component (see FAR 25.105).

(4) The terms ‘‘commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) item,’’ ‘‘critical component,’’ ‘‘domestic end product,’’ ‘‘end product,’’ and ‘‘foreign end product’’ are defined in the clause of this solicitation entitled ‘‘Buy American—Supplies.”

(b) Foreign End Products:

[List as necessary]

(c) Domestic end products containing a critical component:

Line Item No.

[List as necessary]

(d) The Government will evaluate offers in accordance with the policies and procedures of part 25 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

(End of Provision)

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