ATTACHMENT B - MINIMUM SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS_PRODUCT DESCRIPTION.docx

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

For

NON-EXPENDABLE EQUIPMENT

AUDIOSCAN VERIFIT 2 & AXIOM

BRAND NAME OR EQUAL

HEARING AID TESTERS

Prepared By:

Strategic Acquisition Center Department of Veterans Affairs 10300 Spotsylvania Avenue, Suite 400 Fredericksburg, VA 22408

1. SCOPE OF WORK:

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Non-Expendable Equipment National Program has identified the Hearing Aid Tester product line as a candidate for a VA-wide (otherwise referred to as “national”) single Requirements contract award.

Hearing Aid Testers are designed to assess the characteristics of hearing aids; they can usually measure, evaluate, display, and/or record hearing-aid characteristics, such as insertion gain, sound pressure level, frequency response, and harmonic distortion either as graphs or as numbers. Many testers use composite signals instead of pure frequency tones for testing, thus improving testing of nonlinear hearing aids and making detection of intermodulation distortion easier. These testers typically include signal generators, audio transducers (e.g., microphones, loudspeakers), a display, and computing and recording capabilities. Hearing-aid testers are used to fit and periodically test analog, digital, and/or programmable hearing aids; most testers include capabilities for both test chamber and real ear measurements.

The Vendor must demonstrate the ability to meet all requirements of the solicitation. The objective is to provide Hearing Aid Testers to be used by clinicians throughout the VA medical centers and facilities.

2. REQUIREMENT

This requirement will be IAW FAR clause 52.211-6, “Brand Name or Equal” which requires the vendor indicate that each product being offered as an “equal” product to the AudioScan Verifit 2 & Axiom Hearing Aid Testers. For each equal product, the vendor must include a description reflecting the salient characteristics (SC) and level of quality that will satisfy the salient physical, functional, or performance characteristics of the equal product(s) specified in the solicitation. The vendor must also clearly identify the item by brand name (if any) and make/model number. Finally, the vendor must include descriptive literature, such as illustrations, drawings, or a clear reference to previously furnished descriptive data or information available to the contracting officer, and clearly describe any modifications it plans to make to a product to make it conform to the solicitation requirements.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking vendors who can provide Hearing Aid Testers and associated equipment as listed above or equal commodities which meet all of the following salient characteristics (SCs):

CLIN 0001

AXIOM

Part Number AXIOM

CLIN 0002

Verifit 2 Part Number 3547

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