Artificial Limbs and Orthotic Braces

The Department of Veterans Affairs, South Texas Veterans Health Care System intends to solicit sources to provide artificial limb services for the Prosthetics Services for the South Texas Health Care System. This acquisition shall be conducted through full and open competition and shall result in multiple award contracts with one (1) base year plus two (2) option years to the offerors proposals that are most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. This acquisition is being synopsized under the North American Industry Classification (NAICS) code 339113, Artificial Limbs and small business size standard of 500 employees. The solicitation will be issued via FedBizOpps at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/. Telephone requests will not be accepted. The solicitation will be posted on or about June 2, 2009 with a closing date of July 1, 2009. All potential offerors are reminded that in accordance with FAR 52.212-4(t) all contractors are required to be registered with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database in order to conduct business with the Federal government. Lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror ineligible for award. The website is located at http://www.ccr.gov/. The Government anticipates award of multiple contracts resulting from the solicitation to the responsible offerors whose offers conform to the solicitation and are most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered.