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The Veterans Administration seeks sources who would be interested in submitting an offer in response to a future solicitation for the following supplies. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. It... The Veterans Administration seeks sources who would be interested in submitting an offer in response to a future solicitation for the following supplies. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. It is neither a solicitation announcement nor a request for proposals or quotes and does not obligate the Government to award a contract. Requests for a solicitation in response to this Sources Sought announcement will not receive a response. Responses to this Sources Sought announcement must be in writing. The purpose of this Sources Sought announcement is for market research. Responses to this notice shall include the following: (a) company name (b) address (c) point of contact (d) phone, fax, and email (e) Unique Entity ID (f) Cage Code (g) Tax ID Number (h) Type of small business, e.g. Services Disabled Veteran Owned small Business, Veteran-owned small business, 8(a), HUBZone, Women Owned Small Business, Small disadvantaged business, or Small Business HUBZone business. Important information: The Government is not obligated to nor will it pay for or reimburse any costs associated with responding to this sources sought request announcement. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. The Government will in no way be bound to this information if any solicitation is issued. The VA is mandated by Public Law 109-461 to consider a total set-aside for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business set aside. However, if response by Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business firms proves inadequate, an alternate set-aside or full and open competition may be determined. No sub-contracting opportunity is anticipated. The North American Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 334510. Notice to potential offerors: all offerors who provide goods or services to the United States Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov. Additionally, all Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses or Veteran Owned Businesses who respond to a solicitation on this project must be registered with the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Veterans Enterprise VetBiz Registry located at http://vip.vetbiz.gov. All interested offerors should submit information by e-mail to brian.fritz@va.gov. All information submissions to be marked Attn: Brian K. Fritz, Contract Specialist and should be received no later than 5:00 pm PDT on August 29, 2022. The VA Palo Alto Health Care System seeks sources which can provide manual upload of VA competencies into the CensiTrac electronic tracking system. CensiTrac is used for tracking medical and surgical instruments, as well as reusable medical devices through the Sterile Processing Services (SPS) workflow from arrival in Decontamination through Cleaning, Packaging, Sterilization, and return to the Operating Room and other Clinical Spaces. CensiTrac works by scanning 2-D barcodes that are electro-chemically or laser etched onto the instruments and reusable medical devices. Standard barcodes are used for identifying instrument containers, case carts, peel packs, endoscopes, and locations and reprocessing. CensiTrac is VHA’s official system of record for instrument tracking. Service+ support is mandated by VHA RTLS Program Management Office. SPECIFIC TASKS Provide a data business analyst as a single POC for managing competency upload. Planning, execution, and identification of 450 competencies for upload. Competencies will be provided by VA in their existing format. Contractor shall convert VA competencies format into that acceptable by CensiTrac. Competencies shall be manually uploaded to VISN 21’s CensiTrac Competency Module Contractor shall perform quality assurance on a sampling of competencies to verify data was uploaded as expected. REMOTE ACCESS The Contractor shall Have an existent remote access (VPN) process with VISN 21 (remote access can be accomplished through CAG/Citrix or site-to-site). The Contractor is responsible for managing all accounts. Provide update list of all contractor employees who has access. PERFORMANCE MONITORING The Contractor shall provide a bi-weekly activity report that includes the number of competencies uploaded. VA shall approve uploaded competencies. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE The services shall be provided remotely for the following facilities in VISN 21. Facility (VAMC) -- Address Las Vegas -- 6900 North Pecos Road, N. Las Vegas, NV 89086 Martinez -- 150 Muir Road, Martinez, CA 94553 Fresno -- 2615 E. Clinton Avenue, Fresno, CA 93703 Reno -- 975 Kirman Avenue, Reno, NV 89502 Palo Alto -- 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 San Francisco -- 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121 Mather -- 10535 Hospital Way, Mather, CA 95655 Martinez -- 150 Muir Rd, Martinez, CA 94553 Redding -- 3455 Knighton Rd, Redding, CA 96002