Sole Source Justification_signed.pdf

SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION

For Maintenance Agreement With

Datex-Ohmeda, Inc. a GE Healthcare Business

The Building 49 Central Animal Facility (CAF) currently owns eight (8) Anesthesia Machines and four (4) Cardiocaps/5 Life Support Systems manufactured by Datex-Ohmeda, Inc. /GE Healthcare, Inc. GE Healthcare, Inc. provides maintenance and service for these machines.

The service agreement with GE Healthcare includes one annual and operations inspections per year. We are requesting this agreement be given to GE Healthcare due to the provisions listed below.

The Software to run this equipment is exclusively underwritten by GE Healthcare, Inc., and therefore, we have not contacted any other companies for quotes. Also, GE healthcare has been performing preventive maintenance on these units for the past five years. When Software becomes available, it is included in the PM service agreement and installed by a Certified GE Healthcare Technician. Software is at an additional cost and billed separately.

Due to the nature of this equipment, it is imperative that we have no downtime and built into the maintenance agreement is a certified technician 24/7 by phone to help with equipment failure. No other company other than GE Healthcare can provide this service for our surgical equipment.

We are requesting the agreement begin on April 1, 2020, for a period of one year ending March 31, 2021, and Four (4) twelve 12-month option years. The Period of Performance reads as follows:

I. Base Year:

II. Option Year I:

III. Option Year II:

IV. Option Year III:

V. Option Year IV:

April 1, 2020 - March 31, 2021 April I, 2021 - March 31, 2022 April 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023 April I, 2023 - March 31, 2024 April 1, 2024 - March 31, 2025

Q�� � 3!s:(�:m Ted Plemons, MBA, CMAR, RLA TG Date

Wchief, Operations Management, CAF, VRRS, NEI