Dosimetry QA Dynamic Delivery QA Phantom, PTW Octavius 4D or Equal

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The Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 6 Network Contracting Office (NCO) is conducting Market Research, on behalf of Richmond VAMC, through this sources sought to help determine the availability of qualified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), Veteran Owned Small Businesses (VOSB) and Small Businesses (SB), registered under NAICS code 334519, capable of supplying:

Salient Characteristics

Dynamic Delivery QA Phantom, PTW Octavius 4D or Equal





Functions to be performed;

The system must be capable of performing 2D, 3D, and 4D measurements of external beam radiation (6MV 18MV) for quality assurance of equipment and patient treatments delivered using a conventional C-arm linear accelerator. It must support rotational, fixed beam, and radiosurgery equipment and techniques.

Performance required;

For conventional 2D, 3D and 4D measurements:

Must be capable of measuring treatment fields of at least 25 x 25 cm2

Must be capable of measuring rotational deliveries across a 360° rotation

Must have detector spacing of no more than 8 mm.

Must include software for 3D volume analysis

For SRS 2D, 3D, and 4D measurements:

Must be capable of measuring treatment fields oi at least 10 x 10 cm2

Must be capable of measuring rotational deliveries across a 360° rotation

Must have detector spacing of no more than 2.5 mm (central area) and 5.0 mm (outer area).

Must include software for 3D volume analysis

Essential physical characteristics;

Systems weighing more than 10 kg must include a trolley or other means of moving the system into place.

Ion Chamber arrays are preferred to diode arrays.

Must include all necessary cables.

Phantom material must be near tissue equivalent (1.0 gm/cm3 +/- 0.1).

Software must be capable of installation on a laptop or workstation running W7 and/or W10.

Software must support the following functions:

3D Volume analysis

Patient CT Overlay

Multi-measurement dose compositing

Multi-planar dose distribution comparison

2D and 3D gamma histogram analysis

Profile and dose-difference overlays

DICOM Storage of RT Dose, Image, Plan, and Structure Sets

Must include installation and training.



If the contractor can provide the above items, the contractor shall provide a letter from the manufacturer stating they are an authorized distributor/licenser of their products. Failure to submit an authorized distributor letter shall result in the product(s) potentially offered to be considered grey market and shall not be considered technically acceptable.



All respondents shall submit capability statements signifying that they meet the above-mentioned specifications. The capability statements received from this market research survey are for planning purposes only and will assist the Government in planning its acquisition strategy. This is strictly market research and the Government will not entertain questions concerning this market research survey. The Government will not assume any costs incurred by the contractor in the preparation of responses. All responses shall be submitted in the form of electronic mail no later than May 18, 08:00 AM, EST to the attention of: John Summers, VA Medical Center, 27 Averill Avenue, Hampton, VA 23667. John.summers2@va.gov