Otoacoustic emmission system

Added: Jun 27, 2017 9:07 pm THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)/SOURCES SOUGHT IS ISSUED SOLELY FOR INFORMATION AND PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION.

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SOURCES SOUGHT DESCRIPTION

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), VISN 22 Network Contracting Office, is seeking sources that can provide Otoacoustic Emission System that at a minimum meets the following salient characteristics with a brand name or equal product for the VA San Diego Healthcare System in La Jolla Mission Valley and Oceanside clinics:



Salient Characteristics

Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) must work within Otodynamics V6 Advanced Data Management Software and Otodynamics EZ Screen Software

Must be compatible with VA wide NOAH software

Must provide a minimum of a three (3) year warranty

Must Include Optimized I/O Growth Functionality with Embedded Predicted Analysis Threshold

Must have distortion product type stimulus with a range up to 11,000 hertz

Must provide Manual Frequency Control

Must be capable to Upgradable to Echoport ILO USB V2

Must provide Multiple forms of Data Output

Must include Synchronized Spontaneous optoacoustic emissions (SOAE) function

Must provide Full spectrum display during DP test

Must provide these signals Examine/compare feature for DP-DP, TE-DP and TE-TE (Distortion Product/Transient Evoked)

Must provide Cross correlation, freq analysis with reproducibility and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) data on single test or between test pairs

Detailed TE spectrum analysis (50Hz resolution)

Programmable L1 and L2 level, frequency ratio, points/oct, frequency range, manual/ automatic/intelligent frequency progression, 

DP I/O growth rate analysis with dB/dB or scissor-optimized stimuli (formula based)

Export data to OZ, Hi*Track, XML, Excel, ASCII, Import data from other V6 or EZ-Screen sites-Integrate multiple sites, testers and machines



Brand name Info:



Part Number

Description/Nomenclature

Quantity

292-USB-I

Otodynamics Echoport ILO292 USB-I with ILOv6 TE + DPOAE (without PC)- Including EZ Screen and V6 Software for Advanced Data Management

8

A90-27-1-0

Large Foam DP Eartips-100/pkg

8

R11M

Distortion Product Eartips 11mm-100/pkg

8

R13M

Distortion Product Eartips 13mm-100/pkg

8

R8M

Distortion Product Eartips 8mm-100/pkg

8



UGD TE+DPOAE General Purpose Probe #OTO A80-16-1-0

8



Labor - Installation

8









The information identified above is intended to be descriptive, not restrictive and to indicate the quality of the supplies/services that will be satisfactory. It is the responsibility of the interested source to demonstrate to the government that the interested parties can provide the supplies/services that fulfill the required specifications.

If you are interested, and are capable of providing the sought out supplies/services, please provide the requested information as well as the information indicated below. Response to this notice should include company name, address, point of contact, size of business pursuant to the following questions:

(1) Please indicate the size status and representations of your business, such as but not limited to: Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB), Hubzone, Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), Large Business, etc.)?

(2) Is your company considered small under the NAICS code identified under this RFI?

(3) Are you the manufacturer, distributor, or an equivalent solution to the items being referenced above?

(4) If you are a large business, do you have any designated distributors? If so, please provide their company name, telephone, point of Contact and size status (if available).

(5) If you re a small business and you are an authorized distributor/reseller for the items identified above or an equivalent solution, do you alter; assemble; modify; the items requested in any way? If you do, state how and what is altered; assembled; modified?

(6) Does your company have an FSS contract with GSA or the NAC or are you a contract holder with NASA SEWP or any other federal contract? If so, please provide the contract number.

(7) If you are an FSS GSA/NAC or NASA SEWP contract holder or other federal contract holder, are the items/solution you are providing information for available on your schedule/contract?

(8) Please provide general pricing of your products/solution for market research purposes.

(9) Please submit your capabilities in regards to the salient characteristics being provided and any information pertaining to equal to items to establish capabilities for planning purposes?

(10) Please review salient characteristics/statement of work (if applicable) and provide feedback or suggestions. If none, please reply as N/A.

(11) Please provide your DUNS number.

*** Submissions addressing Section (8) should show clear, compelling and convincing*** evidence that all equal to items" meet all the salient characteristics.

Responses to this notice shall be submitted via email to Fredy.arteaga@va.gov. Telephone responses shall not be accepted. Responses must be received no later than Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. EST. If a solicitation is issued it shall be announced at a later date, and all interested parties must respond to that solicitation announcement separately from the responses to this sources sought. Responses to this sources sought notice are not a request to be added to a prospective bidders list or to receive a copy of the solicitation.