8940--Dietary Supplements, Tube Feeding Products, Thickeners and Pre-Thickened Beverages.

The National Acquisition Center intends to solicit proposals to award a contract(s) for standardized Dietary Supplement Products, Tube Feeding Products, and Thickeners and Pre-thickened Beverages. Resultant contract(s) will be Indefinite Delivery-Requirements type contracts lowest priced, technically acceptable. Contract(s) are anticipated to be for a one-year base, with four one-year pre-priced option periods. Further details will be provided in the Request for Proposals (RFP) to inform interested Offerors of an overview of the type of contract to be awarded.

The RFP is anticipated to be posted on or about May 1, 2020 on Beta.Sam.gov website: https://beta.sam.gov/. The due date for submission of proposals in response to the RFP is anticipated to be on or about May 27, 2020. Information in the anticipated RFP supersedes any information in this pre-solicitation announcement. This acquisition has been designated as full and open competition under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 311999. Any questions concerning this announcement must be submitted by email to Bonita.Smith@va.gov Contracting Officer. The reference number to be used for this announcement is: RFP 36E79720R0029. All correspondence must cite the reference number as provided.

CAUTION: This solicitation will be issued electronically as will any amendments thereto. Because of this, the Government is under no obligation and is, in fact, unable to maintain a bidder's mailing list. It is therefore the responsibility of interested parties to periodically access https://beta.sam.gov/ in order to obtain any amendments which may be issued. Failure to obtain any said amendments and to respond to them prior to the date and time set for receipt of proposals may render your proposal non-responsive and result in the rejection of your proposal.

This is not an RFP and this announcement does not commit the Government to award a contract.