Lab Centrifuges

This is a Sources Sought only.  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is performing market research to determine if there are any SDVOSB/VOSB/SB vendors that can a centrifuge to perform lab tests for patients supporting the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, North Las Vegas, NV.

There is no solicitation document as this time.  The NAICS is 334516 with Small Business size of 1,000 employees.  NOTE:  Please ensure that System For Award Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement.

Only firms interested and capable should send their information and/or capability statement and any questions by email to david.alvarez4@va.gov no later than 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, June 29, 2020.  

If interested, please provide the following information:

• Name of Company
• Point of Contact Name, phone number, and email address
• DUNS number
• Socio-economic status such as Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, VOSB, Women-Owned Small Business, etc. should be included. SDVOSB/VOSB status will be verified using VetBiz.
• Capability statements
• Location of facility
• Identify a price estimate for a centrifuge based on the salient characteristics below.  (Note, this is not a request for quote – it’s requesting pricing information for market research purposes only.)  
   
   
  Salient Characteristics
  Essential/significant physical, functional, and performance characteristics:
  Must be a centrifuge designed for an industrial hospital environment
  Must be small and designed for use on a tabletop and be ten (10) inches (+/- 2 inches) wide and ten (10) inches(+/- 2 inches) deep
  Must be a low volume centrifuge with eight (8) to ten (10) tubes of various sizes
  Must have multiple time settings between two (2) and five (5) minutes
  Must have a spin rate up to seven thousand two hundred (7200) rotations per minute (rpms)
  Must have a fixed angle rotor
  Must have a lid that locks
  Generic identification:
  Large, tabletop refrigerated and non-refrigerated centrifuges – high volume refrigerated and non-refrigerated centrifuges.  Swinging buckets, self-balancing rotor.  Bucket inserts for a variety of tube sizes.  Variable speed/G force with speeds up to approx. 4700 rpm.  Multiple program settings for a variety of sample needs. Locking lid.
   
  DISCLAIMER

This Sources Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this request that is marked proprietary will be handled accordingly.  The Government will not compensate an offeror for providing information in response to this sources sought.  Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion.  This is simply a sources sought notice.