Brand name or equal to metro lifeline emergency response crash cart

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 16 seeks sixty fully assembled Metro Lifeline Emergency Response crash carts (model C-287622), brand name or equal, with proposals due June 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM CDT. This procurement is set aside exclusively for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses.

Place of performance is North Little Rock, Arkansas 72114. Delivery is required within thirty days after receipt of order on an FOB Destination basis. The NAICS code is 339113, Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing, with a size standard of eight hundred employees; the PSC code is 6515, Medical And Surgical Instruments, Equipment, And Supplies.

Offerors may propose brand name or equal products, provided they submit sufficient descriptive literature and original equipment manufacturer authorization demonstrating conformance to salient characteristics outlined in the Statement of Work. Technical specifications include cart dimensions of thirty-eight inches width by twenty-four inches depth (top view) and forty-four point eight inches height by forty point five inches width (rear view); drawer pulls must be blue in color. All dimensions are rounded to the nearest point one inch.

This is a firm-fixed-price commercial acquisition evaluated on price and brand name or equal basis, with award to the responsible offeror whose offer is most advantageous to the Government. Submissions must include VAAR 852.219-76 certification regarding limitations on subcontracting, domestic compliance certification per the Buy American Act, security prohibitions representations, and a technical volume demonstrating OEM authorization and capability. Technical and price quotations must be submitted as one electronic copy via email to Contract Specialist Arlene A. Blade at arlene.blade@va.gov in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat format.