Boston Scientific Cardiovascular Products and Ancillary Accessories

The goal of the Manufacturer Direct Program is to establish an alternative to manual open market purchase activity, re-engineer the business process with automated e-commerce business solution. The objective of this solicitation is to establish a Fixed Price (with Economic Price Adjustment) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract with Boston Scientific for their Cardiovascular Products

that fall into the following product categories; Interventional Cardiology (IC), Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM), Electophysiology (EP) and Peripheral Intervention (PI) as well as Boston Scientifics cardiovascular and ancillary accessories (such as needles for entry, guide wire, etc.) that are necessary for the physician to perform cardiovascular surgery. Other Boston Scientific cardiovascular groups determined to be in the scope of the contract may be solicited at a future date under this solicitation.

This solicitation contains an on-site personnel requirement for the contractor to provide advice and guidance to physician's before, during and after implantation of the device at the request of the Medical Treatment Facility. Technical support shall be available twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week.

Market Research has revealed that there are no other manufacturers or distributors other than Boston Scientific who can provide DoD hospitals with the cardiovascular products at the required time for surgery and be available on-site if needed to answer questions on all these products. The Boston Scientific Sales Representatives are experts on Boston Scientific's products and are a vital part of helping to ensure that the patient is getting the necessary treatment.

Boston Scientific will have their product line loaded into the DLA Troop Support Medical Electronic Catalog (ECAT). All Orders, Order Acknowledgements and Invoice transactions are required to be electronic. Items will be delivered to various Department of Defense (DoD) research centers, hospitals, and clinics, and any federal customer participating in this program.

The term of the contract will be a one-year Base Period and four one-year unilateral Option Periods. This procurement has an estimated value of $6.3 million for the Base Period, $9.5 million for the first option period, $10.4 million for the second option period, $10.5 million for the third option period, and $10.6 million for the fourth option period, for a total of approximately $47.3 million over the five-year life of the procurement.  The contract maximum is $71,034,463.00 over the 5 year life of the contract. 

Solicitation SPE2DE-15-R-0002 is expected to be issued June 18, 2015 and can be found on the DLA Internet Bid Board System (DIBBS) at https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil.  The point of contact is Charles Reimer, DLA Troop Support-FSCB, 215-737-3829. The solicitation may not become available until the solicitation issue date.