6515--Eye Clinic Equipment for Hershel "Woody" Williams VAMC

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration, Network Contracting Office 5, has issued a Sources Sought Notice for eye clinic equipment at the Hershel "Woody" Williams VA Medical Center in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. This special notice, designated as solicitation number 36C24525Q0550, seeks to identify potential vendors capable of supplying 28 specific line items of medical equipment for the eye clinic. The equipment includes patient chairs, examination tools, and specialized optical instruments such as a Reliance 942 Chair Glide, Volk aspheric lenses, Marco Brightness Acuity Tester, Reichert AVIA Tonopen, and an ARK-1A Automatic Objective Refractor/Keratometer. The procurement falls under NAICS code 339112 (Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing) with a small business size standard of 1,000 employees. The contracting officer for this procurement is Ryan Singletary, who can be contacted at RYAN.SINGLETARY@VA.GOV or 202-745-8000.

The purpose of this Sources Sought Notice is strictly for market research and planning purposes to determine available sources for the eye clinic equipment procurement, with no guarantee of a subsequent solicitation or contract award. Interested vendors must submit their responses via email to Ryan.Singletary@va.gov by June 16, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time, though the attached documentation indicates an earlier deadline of June 13, 2025, at 12:00 PM EST. Potential contractors must provide comprehensive information including company name, point of contact, SAMS UEI, business size status, manufacturer/distributor details, federal contract holdings, and capabilities. The notice explicitly states that responses will be used solely for informational purposes, no entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs will arise from responses, and no contract will be awarded directly from this notice. This procurement represents the VA's effort to modernize and equip the eye clinic at the Hershel "Woody" Williams VAMC with current medical technology to serve veteran patients.