Contracting Officer (90C), VA Medical Center, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130

70 -- BRAND NAME OR EQUAL -- HEWLETT PACKARD VECTRA VL7 333 SOL RFP 523-27-98 DUE 082498 POC Steve Lawson, Contracting Officer, 617-232-9500, extension 5527 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, michael.kennison@med.va.gov. THIS IS A COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN FAR SUBPART 12.6, AS SUPPLEMENTED WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION; PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. SOLICITATION NUMBER RFP 523-27-98 IS BEING ISSUED AS A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL USING SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES. This solicitation is 100% set aside for small business. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-04. The Standard Industrial Classification Number is 3571, and the business size standard is 1000 employees. DESCRIPTION: The following specifications are issued as Brand Name or Equal specifications. With that, the term "or equal" is not added to each item/component description, but is instead stated here and applied to all items and components discussed hereafter. (1)The offeror shall provide equipment which will consist of eighteen(18)Hewlett Packard Vectra VL7 333 with processor Pentium II, processor speed 333.00 Bus speed 66MHZ CPU Upgradeable, multi-processor supported, RAM (MB) 384.00 Hard Drive (GB) 6.40 Hard drive controller type EIDE floppy drive(s) installed; 1.44MB Number of USB ports, two video memory installed; 8MB video memory upgradeable to 16.00 case type MINI TOWER half height bays 3.00 16 bit ISA slots, 2.00 PCI slots; 2.00 shared PCI/ISA slots; 2.00 AGP slots None total slots; 6.00 Operating system included WINDOWS NT Type fax/modem indluded-56k courier v.90 fax/modem full duplex CD-ROM included (maximum X) 24.00 Multimedia sound installed; 16 bit SOUND PS/2 Mouse port LAN interface included-integrated chip, 100Mb,ip Certified Novell, DMI compliant; Manufacturer's warranty (36 months) & full on-site service to include parts and labor. (2)three(3)Hewlett Packard Vectra VL7 333 with processor Pentium II, processor speed 333.00 Bus speed 66MHZ CPU Upgradeable, No multi-processor supported, No RAM (MB) 384.00 Hard Drive (GB) 6.40 Hard drive controller type EIDE floppy drive(s) installed; one 1.44MB, and one Iomega zip drive; Number of USB ports two, 8MB video memory upgradeable to 16.00 case type MINI TOWER half height bays 3.00 16 bit ISA slots, 2.00 PCI slots; 2.00 shared PCI/ISA slots; 2.00 AGP slots None total slots; 6.00 Operating system included WINDOWS NT Type fax/modem indluded-56k courier v.90 fax/modem full duplex CD-ROM included (maximum X) 24.00 Multimedia sound installed; 16 bit SOUND PS/2 Mouse port LAN interface included-integrated chip, 100Mb,ip Certified Novell, DMI compliant; Manufacturer's warranty (36 months) & full on-site service to include parts and labor. This requirement is for Brand Name or Equal. If submitting an equal product, please include with your quotation detailed specifications as to what is being proposed. The vendor shall deliver all line items FOB Destination to The VA Medical Center, General Warehouse, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02130. Required delivery time is six weeks from award. All products shall be fully integrated prior to delivery. Products offered under the terms of a Federal Supply Schedule contract shall be so stated to include contract number and terms and a copy of the pertinent pages of the contract shall be provided with the proposal. The Government will award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The provisions at 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition with the following adenda: Per FAR 12.603(b) the SF 1449 is not used. The offeror agrees to hold the prices in its offer firm for 90 days after Government receipt of proposals. Any responsible small business source may respond no later than 3:30 pm local time, August 24, 1998. All such responses will be evaluated in accordance with FAR 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items. The following evaluation criteria shall be used to evaluate offers. (1) Technical Capability-ability to provide the products stated herein of the same or better functional characteristics (2) Schedule: Ability to meet or exceed the required delivery date (3) Past Performance -- ability to consistently deliver and maintain quality and timely service during warranty period (4) Total proposed price, inclusive of warranty period -- most advantageous price considering all other factors. Evaluation criteria is listed in descending order of importance. The Offeror shall clearly demonstrate how the products proposed meet the requirements set forth herein regardless of how offered (e.g. open market, Federal Supply Schedule). All offerors shall submit the following as part of their proposal: Technical description and/or product literature; Description of commercial warranty; two copies of the most recently published price list; and two copies of a price proposal addressing the required items. No fax offers will be accepted. All offers should be sent to Mr. Steven Lawson, Contracting Officer (90C) at the VA Medical Center, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02130 by no later than 3:30 pm local time August 24, 1998. Posted 07/23/98 (W-SN227398). (0204)

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