Naval Medical Logistics Command, Code 05, 521 Fraim Street, Ft. Detrick, MD 21702-5015

65 -- CADAVER TEMPORAL BONE TEACHING LABORATORY SOL N62645-99-C-0003 DUE 020599 POC Jocelen Carrigan, Contracting Officer, 301-619-7468 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer via, jcarrigan@nml10.med.navy.mil. The Naval Medical Logistics Command has a requirement for a Cadaver Temporal Bone Teaching Laboratory and intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Accumed Medical Equipment Inc for a system manufactured by Carl Zeiss Inc as the only one responsible source and no other supplies will satisfy the Navy's requirements. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a commercial item prepared in accordance with FAR Subparts 12.6 and 13.5, as supplemented with additional information incuded in this notice. This announcement constititues the only Request for Proposal under Solicitation N62645-99-C-0003. The Standard Industrial Code is 3841 and the small business size is 500 employees. The Government contemplates award of a Firm Fixed Price contract. A proposal from Accument Medical Equipment Inc is being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-04. The system shallmeet the following characteristics: a complete integrated system with 5 temporal bone lab instructor's stations capable of use to train Otoloaryngologists to safely performmicrosurgery of the ear and temporal bone; optical qualify of stations consistent with that experienced in the operating room; advanced desktop computer graphics capability to photograph and present the microanatomy and didactic lectures; digital video recording from the computer to teach as well as capture unusual anatomical findings. The system is to be delivered FOB destination to the Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA. The contractor shall provide a timeline for delivery and installation from date of contract award and copy of standard commercial warranty. Some components of the system are available on VA schedule and the contractor shall separately identify and price these items in their offer. The information technology (IT) being acuqired under this solicitation shall accurately process date/time data from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the years 1999 and 2000 and leap years. It must also accurately process date/time data when used in comgination with other existing IT that properly exchanges date/time data with it. Upgrade of technology which is not Year 2000 compliant must be accomplished by the earlier of 31 December 1999 or the earliest date on which the IT may be required to perform data/time processing involving dates later than 31 December 1999. Provision 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, applies to this acquisition. The offeror must include a completed copy of provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Commercial Items, with its offer. The clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items applies. The clause 52.212-5,Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes of Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. In accordance with said clause, the following clauses apply: 52.222-3, Convict Labor; 52.233-3, Protest after Award; 52.203-6,Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government with Alternate I; 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns and Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.225-3, Buy American Act-Supplies; 52.225-9, Buy American Act-Trade Agreements Act-Balance of Payments Program. Offer is due by COB 5 Feb 99 to Naval Medical Logistics Command, Attn: Jocelen Carrigan, 521 Fraim St, Ft Detrick, MD 21702-5015; phone 301-619-7468; fax 301-619-2925;e-mail jcarrigan@nml10.med.navy.mil. See Note 22. Posted 01/22/99 (W-SN290342). (0022)

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