SPS Surgical Instrument Sharpening and Repair

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 is soliciting offers for comprehensive surgical instrument sharpening and repair services, including on-site laser sharpening, refurbishment of reusable medical devices, and off-site repair services. The contractor must provide on-site maintenance services at four South Texas facilities: Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center, Northwest Health Care Center, Datapoint Dental clinic, and Kerrville facility. Key contract requirements include that all contractor personnel must hold current, nationally recognized sterile processing and instrument maintenance credentials with previous surgical instrument sharpening experience, and services must be delivered Monday through Friday between 7:30 AM and 5:30 PM with same-day instrument collection and return. The government will evaluate proposals based on technical capability, past performance, and price, with award anticipated to be made to the responsible offeror providing best value without discussions. The original solicitation due date of March 19, 2026, was extended to March 24, 2026, at 12:00 PM CST following an amendment issued on March 18, 2026, that provided vendor clarifications and revised contract documents.

This solicitation is designated as a 100 percent set-aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, requiring offerors to be certified SDVOSBs registered in both the System for Award Management and the SBA certification database at time of offer submission. The previous incumbent contract number is 36C2572521P0614. The estimated contract value is $34 million with a small business size standard of $34 million, and the contract period runs from April 17, 2026, through April 16, 2027, with four one-year option periods extending through April 16, 2031. The contractor will service an estimated 25-30 instrument trays monthly at Audie L. Murphy with four visits annually across three clinical sites, plus 600-800 instruments at Northwest Health Care Center and 410-430 instruments each at Datapoint Dental and Kerrville with one monthly visit per facility. All services will be performed at the four designated South Texas locations with the primary place of performance in San Antonio, Texas, and invoicing will be based on actual jobs completed on a firm fixed unit pricing basis submitted electronically through the Tungsten Network.