6640--Intent to sole source

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Cleveland VA Medical Center, intends to negotiate on a sole source basis, pursuant to FAR 6.302-1, with MEDTRONIC who supplied Wafers used for production of stimulation and sensing modules compatible with Dustin Tyler s Implanted Somatosensory Electrical Neurostimulation and Sensing (iSensTM) system developed under VA and DARPA. Additional components are required. These components were designed specifically to be compatible with a fully implanted iSens system. No other stimulation and sensing modules exist that are compatible with iSens. This is a notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than June 7th, 8:00, EST. Interest/capability statements may be sent to Lynn Portman at lynn.portman@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.