Alcon SPECIAL NOTICE - WRNMMC.docx

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This is a Special Notice detailing the Defense Health Agency's (DHA) intent to award a sole-source Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Alcon Vision, LLC for surgical optical equipment reagents. The procurement is specifically for the Centurion System, with Alcon Vision identified as the sole manufacturer and provider. The BPA will support the Main Operating Room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda, MD.

The procurement will be executed under FAR 6.302-1 authority for "Only one responsible source," with an unrestricted product set aside. Interested parties capable of providing comparable reagents may submit their capabilities and price lists by 10:00am EST on May 2, 2025, via email to ealed.m.nuru.civ@health.mila with a cc to erica.s.oh.civ@health.mil. The government retains sole discretion in determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement based on potential responses, and this notice is explicitly not a request for competitive proposals or quotations.

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Classification Original Set Aside: Unrestricted Product Service Code: 6515 - Medical and Surgical Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies NAICS Code: 339112 – Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing Place of Performance: Bethesda, MD 20889

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THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE / PROPOSAL

The Defense Health Agency (DHA), Northeastern Markets Contracting Division (NM-CD), on behalf of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), in support of the Main Operating Room, intends to award a Blanket Purchase Agreement on a sole source basis to Alcon Vision, LLC, 6201 South FWY, Fort Worth, Texas,76134-2001.

The anticipated award will be made under the statutory authority permitting Other than Full and Open Competition pursuant to FAR 6.302-1 “Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.” This agreement is intended to allow for the procurement of Surgical Optical Equipment reagents for the Centurion System. Alcon Vision, LLC is the only provider of the Optical Centurion System and therefore, the supplies must be obtained from the Sole Manufacturer Alcon Vision, LLC.

This notice of intent is NOT a request for competitive proposals or quotations. Requests for copies of a solicitation in response to this notice will not be honored or acknowledged. Phone calls will not be accepted. A determination by the Government to not compete this proposed action based upon response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether conducting a competitive procurement is in the best interest of the Government. Interested parties capable of providing the requested reagents may submit their capabilities and price list by responding to this notice no later than 10:00am EST, Friday, May 2, 2025 by email to ealed.m.nuru.civ@health.mila and cc: erica.s.oh.civ@health.mil. All information submitted should support the offeror’s capability to provide the requested reagents.

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