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INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE – 36C26326Q0638 – DESCRIPTION AND INSTRUCTIONS Department of Veterans Affairs intends to issue a sole source award to Waters Technology Corporation for MassLynx Acquisition PC, Clinical Window 11 upgrade kit and service. This award will be a purchase order for the equipment and half day of installation service under FAR Part 12 of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul. The NAICS code is 334516 and the size standard is 1000 employees. The PSC is 6630. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. The Government will consider responses received by the closing date of this notice. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a full and open competitive acquisition or a small business set-aside competitive acquisition. The Government will not pay for any information received in response to this announcement. If the Government decides to compete this requirement in the open market, a synopsis shall be issued utilizing the combined synopsis/solicitation procedure identified in FAR 12 of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul. A determination to not compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Description of the Requirement : The Iowa City VA currently runs Waters Corporation LCMS instruments for drug confirmation testing providing patient care testing nationwide. The Waters Corporation LCMS instruments, currently in use, require MassLynx software to operate. This software is installed on the Waters Corporation computer. The current operating system is Windows 7 and is no longer supported and no longer allowed on VA network. MassLynx Acquisition PC: Must have tower 4x6 mechanical design. Must have P510 motherboard with TPM enabled. Must have Intel Xeon E5-1630 v4 (3.7 GHz, 4-core) processor. Must have 64 GB total RAM. Must have NVIDIA K620 with 2 GB GDDR5 output via DisplayPort video adapter. Must have integrated audio. Must have storage configuration SSD: 1 x 512 GB and HDD: 2 x 4 TB SATA 2.5”, 7200 rpm + 1 x 6 TB SATA 2.5”, 7200 rpm. Must have Lenovo 16x DVD + RW optical drive. POTENTIAL SOURCES SHALL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN THEIR RESPONSE: 1. Company name, address, primary contact(s), e-mail address & phone number. 2. A letter from the manufacturer stating your firm is an authorized distributor of theirs. This letter shall be signed by the manufacturer and dated not more than one year ago. 3. SAM UEI number. 4. State if your firm, under the NAICS code, is a large business, small business, service-disabled-veteran-owned small business, veteran-owned small business, HUB zone 8(a), women-owned small business or a small-disadvantaged business. 5. State if your firm has required items on Schedule (FSS, GSA, SEWP, other…). If so, state the contract number. 6. If your firm is a Socio-economic small business (WOSB, VOSB, SDVOSB…
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