ATTACHMENT B - SLIT LAMPS - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION.docx

PRODUCT DECRIPTION

For

NON-EXPENDABLE EQUIPMENT:

SLIT LAMPS

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 Slit Lamp product line as a candidate for a VA-wide (otherwise referred to as “national”) single Requirements contract award.

Slit Lamps are ophthalmic diagnostic instruments designed for examining the eyes’ overall health and detecting eye disease. It uses an illumination system combined with a binocular microscope that provides a slit beam of light into the eye with different types of illumination. Some slit lamps also have refraction mirrors to direct light to a camera mounted above the microscope. This provides a magnified view of eye eyelid, sclera, iris, crystalline lens, and cornea.

The Contractor must demonstrate the ability to meet all requirements for the solicitation. The Period of Performance will be from date of award for a base period of 12 months with two 12-month option periods. Vendors will be required to deliver Slit Lamps to VHA facilities throughout the United States. Delivery requirements shall be specified under each individual order.

2. REQUIREMENT

This requirement will be IAW FAR clause 52.211-6, “Brand Name or Equal” which requires the quoter indicate that each product being offered as an “equal” product to the BQ900® Slit Lamp which is manufactured by Haag-Streit USA.

For each product, the offeror 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. First, the SC table below shall be included in the beginning of the technical volume with a cross-reference column of the page number(s) identifying where in the quote that the requirement is met. Next, the quoter must clearly identify the item by brand name (if any) and make/model number. Finally, the quoter 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 BQ 900® Slit Lamps and accessories listed above or equal commodities which meet all of the following salient characteristics:

CLIN’s 0001 apply to the following SC’s:

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