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This Sources Sought/Market Survey Notice is being conducted by the Network Contracting Office (NCO) 16 at 2002 Holcombe Blvd. Bldg. 100, Houston, Texas 77030 to identify sources that are capable of pr... This Sources Sought/Market Survey Notice is being conducted by the Network Contracting Office (NCO) 16 at 2002 Holcombe Blvd. Bldg. 100, Houston, Texas 77030 to identify sources that are capable of providing 3M Brand Name Only equipment as described below for the John L. McClellan VA Medical Center (VAMC), 4300 W 7th Little Rock AR 72205 Specification Requirements. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION QUANTITY 7100071183 LX25 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer LX25 18 CM-SW200 3M Quality Control Data Manager 18 LX25EW 2 Year Extended Care Plan 18 ATP10 3M Clean-Trace Surface Positive Control 1 LWATP10 3M Clean-Trace Water Positive Control Qty 1 7100074110 UXC / 3M Clean-Trace Surface ATP Surface Tests UXC, 10 EA/Pouch, 10 Pouch/CV (100 EA/CV) 1 7100074112 H2O / 3M Clean-Trace Surface ATP Surface Tests H2O, 10 EA/Pouch, 10 Pouch/CV (100 EA/CV) 1 7000054144 WTK / 3M Clean-Trace Water Test Kit 1 Delivery Location: VA Med Center (John L McClellan), 4300 W 7th St. Little Rock AR 72205 If this is a supply your business can provide, please respond to this Sources Sought Notice by 3:00PM CT not later than 26 April 2021. The intent of this notice 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: 4.1 Please respond to this notice if you can provide the exact brand name products listed in the table in the background section above. In the response please cite your business size status. a. If you have an existing GSA or VA, Federal Supply Schedule contract, please include the contract details in your response. b. DISTRIBUTORS: You must provide proof that you are an authorized 3M distributor. VA does not accept gray market items. Please respond to this notice if you can provide supplies that may be determined EQUIVALENT to the products listed in the table above. Please provide details on the proposed EQUIVALENT products such as Manufacturer Name, Part Number, and Description. Equivalent products are required to interoperate with existing VAMC 3M equipment and instrumentation, if the Government determines that equivalent products are not compatible with existing VAMC 3M equipment, Brand Name Only products shall be required. 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. VA does not accept gray market items. Please note that VA is particularly interested in determining the availability of Small Business Manufacturers. If your company is a small business manufacturer of potentially equivalent items, please respond to this notice. 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 authorized distributors of the cited brand name or responses with equivalent products not found compatible with existing 3M equipment and instrumentation, then this action will be sole sourced to the manufacturer. 10. Responses should include: (1) Business Name (2) Business Address (3) Point of Contact Name Phone Number E-mail Address (4) DUNS Number (5) NAICS code (6) Business Size: SMALL or LARGE (7) Type of Business: SERVICE DISABLED VETERAN OWNED (SDVOSB), VETERAN OWNED (VOSB), 8A, HUBZone, WOMAN-OWNED (WOSB), etc. (8) Letter stating OEM authorized dealer, authorized distributor or authorized reseller for the proposed equipment and/or services if applicable (9) GSA/FSS Contract Number if applicable All businesses eligible to provide this service are encouraged to reply as this information may be used to determine potential set-asides for the above-noted requirement. Send responses to Francisco.Mendoza@va.gov DISCLAIMER: This notice 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 notice.