Buy American Certificate - 52.225-2 - Cataract Training Equipment.docx
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This is a Buy American Certificate form (FAR 52.225-2) completed for a cataract training equipment procurement by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 23. The certificate certifies compliance with Buy American requirements for the solicitation 36C26326Q0610, which seeks Haag Streit brand intraocular training equipment (operating microscopes, foot pedals, hand pieces, and related surgical simulator components).
The offeror certifies that all end products listed in CLINs 0001 through 0022 qualify as domestic end products under Buy American regulations, despite initial manufacturing in Germany. The addendum clarifies that while component parts are manufactured in Germany, final assembly, integration, software installation, testing, and adjustment occur on-site in California before delivery to the Veterans Affairs facility, thereby establishing the products as "Made in the USA." The form requires certification that domestic end products contain critical components and identifies which line items fall into this category. No foreign end products are listed as exceptions to the Buy American requirement for this solicitation.
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52.225-2 Buy American Certificate.
As prescribed in 25.1101(a)(2), insert the following provision:
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:
| Line Item No. |
| Country of Origin |
(b)[List as necessary] N/A, see addendum below.
(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) Addendum:
Items listed in CLINs line-items 0001 through 0022 are manufactured in Germany. During installation on-site the component parts are assembled into a working Surgical Simulator (operating microscope, foot pedal, hand pieces, wiring etc.). The software is then updated and installed on site, the simulator is tested and adjusted and when this is completed the simulator is turned over to the facility for use. Therefore, this is considered to be made in the USA. come to the United States and delivered in California. Software and other equipment are added. Therefore, this would be considered Made in the USA.
| Signature: | _____________________________________ | |
| Name printed: | _____________________________________ | |
| Position: | _____________________________________ |
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