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Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 16 - HOUSTON In Support of the Alexandria VA Medical Center (AVAMC) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 36C25622Q0681 STATEMENT OF WORK Tissue Tek Film Au... Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office 16 - HOUSTON In Support of the Alexandria VA Medical Center (AVAMC) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION 36C25622Q0681 STATEMENT OF WORK Tissue Tek Film Automated Cover slipper and Prisma Link Background: The Alexandria VA Medical Center (AVAMC) is looking to purchase Tissue Tek Film Automated Cover slipper and Prisma Link Cassette Printer that is at the end-of-Life Cycle stage. Supply Specifications Requirements: Physical Characteristics of Tissue Tek Film Automated Cover slipper: The following components are needed for the areas specified below. Item # Description/Part Number* Qty 0001 Tissue Tek Film Automated Cover slipper 1 EA 0002 Tissue Tek Prisma Link 1 EA 0003 Service Agreement additional 1year 1 EA Physical Characteristics of Tissue Tek Film Automated Cover slipper Dimensions: 28.3 x 23.2 x 27.1 inches Up to 1080 slides/hr Voltage: Single phase, 115 VAC ± 10%, 50/60 Hz, 1.3 A Integration with strainer With Tissue-Tek Prisma or Tissue-Tek Prisma Plus using Tissue-Tek Film Link (6134) This equipment will link to our current Tissue-Tek Prisma Plus Stainer with the Tissue Tek Prisma Link. The Link will allow the slides to automatically travel to the Tissue Tek Film Automated Cover slipper. The film cover slipper is needed for our telepathology scanner. We currently hand coverslip with glass slides. The glass slides are not able to be loaded onto the telepathology scanner. The timeliness of the patient s diagnosis is very important aspect of patient safety. This instrument will increase the efficiency of the laboratory and allow for the slides to be readable for the 25-year requirement. Delivery Location: Alexandria VAMC Building 7, 3rd Floor Main Laboratory 2495 Shreveport Highway 71 Pineville, LA 71306 END OF SATEMENT OF WORK REQUESTED 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 exact brand name products 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. VA does not accept grey market items. Please respond to this RFI if you can provide supplies that may be determined EQUIVALENT to the products listed in the table in the background section above. Please provide details on the proposed EQUIVALENT products such as Manufacturer Name, Part Number, and Description. 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 grey 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 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 distributors 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 Ayanna.Hamilton@va.gov. Please respond to this RFI no later than 04/07/2022. 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.