SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE The Great Lakes Acquisition Center (GLAC), Network Contracting Office (NCO) 12, on behalf of the William S. Middleton Memorial VA Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, is seeking information and potential sources for Mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Services. The period of performance will be for one year and is requested to begin July 2023. Contractor shall provide all management, labor, equipment, supplies, and tools necessary to perform mobile MRI Services. These services shall also include maintenance and repair of all Contractor furnished equipment (including the mobile trailer/scanner). Services shall be provided weekly on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for a minimum of eight (8) hours per day, with the first patient arrival at 7:30 a.m. Trailer delivery, set-up, and daily quality control procedures shall not delay patient care. The estimated number of scans required is 1,470. Approximately, 35-40 scans per month will require contrast. The VA will provide the contrast if necessary, and contract MRI Technologists must be able to administer the contrast. Contractor shall furnish at least a fully equipped 1.5 Tesla, (70 cm Bore preferred) MRI System designed to perform body, abdominal, neurological, vascular, prostate, and extremity/joint imaging. Contractor equipment shall include a minimum of 16 Channel imaging capabilities, not less than a Gradient package of 33MT/100 slew rate; Neuro, Angio, Cardiac, Body, Oncology, Ortho imaging capability with navigator sequence; DICOM compatibility; Work list; Storage; and a 550-pound support patient table. The mobile trailer can be left on-site and hooked up to electricity during non-operational hours starting the night before services are required through Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. local, otherwise it must be off the VA premises. Contractor shall provide, at least 2 ARRT Certified MRI Technologists (RTR-MR) to provide services for each service day. The VA will not consider alternative staffing arrangements. MRI Technologists shall also be BLS certified. Certifications must be obtained or issued by the American Heart Association (AHA), an organization recognized by the AHA, or Military Training Network (MTN). The NAICS for this requirement is 621512 Diagnostic Imaging Centers, which has a small business size standard of $16.5 million. It is the intent of the VA to issue a single award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract. This is a Sources Sought Notice only. This Sources Sought Notice will be used to obtain information regarding the provision of Mobile MRI Services from potential vendors, identify potential vendors that would be interested and capable of providing Mobile MRI Services within the requested timeframe, and to assist the Contracting Officer in making a set-aside determination. This Source Sought Notice and any responses are for market research purposes only and shall not be considered an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any services. This Source Sought Notice is not a solicitation, and no contractual arrangement will be made as a result. Vendors are advised that no entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of a contractor submission to this Sources Sought Notice or the Government's use of such information. All costs associated with responding to this Sources Sought Notice are solely at the responding vendors expense. The Government reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any vendor's input resulting from this Sources Sought Notice. Information submitted in response to this Sources Sought Notice will not be returned. All submitted information should be UNCLASSIFIED or NON-PROPRIETARY. Vendors are solely responsible for properly marking and clearly identifying any proprietary information or trade secrets contained with its response. The Government will not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly marked and clearly identified. By responding to this Sources Sought Notice, the vendor provides the Government permission to share its submitted capabilities and contact information with other Government organizations in relationship to similar requirements for market research purposes. To be considered complete, responses to this Sources Sought Notice shall include the information below. Provide a brief description of the company background, experience in providing Mobile MRI Services as the prime contractor/subcontractor, socioeconomic status, past performance with Government contracts, and contractor UEI number. Indicate if subcontractors/partners be used for any part of the delivery of Mobile MRI services (equipment, technologists)? If yes, specify the duties of the prime contractor and any subcontractors/partners. Provide information on the available mobile scanner unit(s) for consideration to fulfill this need. Indicate if the mobile scanner unit is company owned or rented/leased from another company. Indicate if any of the potential MRI technologists have prior VA/DOD experience. If company is a small business, indicate if able to comply with the Limitations on Subcontracting at 13 CFR 125.6, which states that for services a small business concern must agree that it will not pay more than 50% of the amount paid by the government to it to firms that are not similarly situated. Include copy of Small Business Administration verification at Veteran Small Business Certification (sba.gov) if claiming Veteran-Owned Small Business or Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business socioeconomic status as prime contractor or for any subcontractors/partners. Provide a copy of current certificate of liability insurance in vendor s name. Based on the estimated number of scans above, provide an estimate of the cost per scan. All interested parties, REGARDLESS of socioeconomic status, capable of providing the required Mobile MRI Services above shall submit a response via email to the Contracting Officer at becky.cincotta@va.gov, no later than Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. local time.
