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Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 16 - ALEXANDRIA In Support of the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (OBVAMC) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 36C25621Q0663 Medical Air Control Panel. B... Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 16 - ALEXANDRIA In Support of the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (OBVAMC) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 36C25621Q0663 Medical Air Control Panel. Background: The Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (OBVAMC) is requesting a contractor to replace the medical air control panel to support COVID-19 patient care. Place of Performance: Overton Brooks VA Medical Center (OBVAMC) located at 250 E. Stoner Ave, Shreveport, LA 71101. Item # Description/Part Number/Service* Qty Price Extended Amount  0001 The Contractor shall furnish all labor, materials, new OEM parts, equipment, and tools to service and exchange replace the medical air cabinet system Health, TPX 10 HP, 208VAC Unit. Contractor shall certify that the equipment is functioning properly and safely and ready for use. The contract price shall be firm-fixed, all-inclusive, and not limited to specified products/equipment, installation, and setup/configuration. Suggested Manufacturer Brand Name; TPX or EQUIVALENT as listed below: RESPONSES: The intent of this Request for Information is to establish sources to define the procurement strategy (e.g set-aside, sole source, unrestricted) for a solicitation that VA intends to post soon. Interested contractors are requested to respond in accordance with the following: Please respond to this RFI if you can provide the certified replacement listed in the table in the background section above. In the response please cite your business size status. If you have an existing GSA or VA, Federal Supply Schedule contract, please include the contract details in your response. DISTRIBUTORS: You must provide proof that you are an authorized distributor for manufacturer. VA does not accept grey market items. Please respond to this RFI if you can provide repairs/supplies that may be determined EQUIVALENT to the products listed in the background section above. Please provide details on the proposed EQUIVALENT products such as Manufacturer Name, Part Number, and Description. Please note that VA is particularly interested in determining the availability of Small Businesses. If your company is a small business of potentially equivalent items, please respond to this RFI. Vendors are requested to submit estimated market research pricing with their responses. The estimated pricing will be considered when determining the procurement strategy for the future solicitation. (e.g. if CO determines that capable small businesses cannot provide fair and reasonable pricing, then the solicitation will not be set-aside). Please note that if no responses to this notice are received, from either authorized service technicians of the cited brand name nor from manufacturers marketing a potentially equivalent brand, then this action will be sole sourced to the manufacturer cited in the Background section above. CONTACT INFORMATION AND RESPONSE DUE DATE: Please email all responses to Shannon.west1@va.gov. Please respond to this RFI no later than 04/08/2021. DISCLAIMER: This RFI is issued solely for informational and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Department of Veterans Affairs to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI.