3950--Sources Sought - Brand Name or Equal - 120 Foot or Greater Boom Lift - VA Black Hills Health Care Systemview on SAM.gov

The VA Black Hills Health Care System requires the purchase of a 2027 JLG 1200SJP Diesel Telescopic Boom Lift and accessories with the Salient Characteristics listed below. This will be a Brand Name or Equal procurement. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE only looking for businesses to provide the supplies listed below for market research purposes. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this notice. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS OR PRICING AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS NOTICE. This notice shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Responses to this notice will be treated only as information for the Government to consider as part of their market research efforts. The information provided will be used by the Government in developing its acquisition strategy regarding possible set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Veteran-Owned, and other socio-economic categories of small business. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this notice and parties responding will not be entitled to payment for direct or indirect costs incurred in responding to this notice. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 333924 Industrial Truck, Tractor, Trailer, and Stacker Machinery Manufacturing, with an SBA Small Business Size Standard of 900 employees. If you are a vendor capable of providing the requested information and required supplies described below with competitive pricing, send your information with a description of proof of capability and answers to all questions to: Alisha.Milander@va.gov on or before Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM Central Time. Please provide answers as appropriate to the following questions in the table below with your response to this Sources Sought. Failure to respond accurately to the following questions may affect the acquisition strategy. Failure to respond to the questions at all, or not respond to select individual questions, will result in your response being determined as non-responsive. 1. Please provide all socio-economic categories of your firm (e.g., SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB, Large Business, 8a, etc.) as well as your firm s SAM Unique Entity ID number (replaces DUNS number) and Government Contract POC. 2. State if you would be intending to provide the brand name supplies or an equal substitute. If you are proposing an equal substitute, you must provide sufficient information describing how it is equal to the brand name supply items (to include all accessories) as described in the Salient Characteristics below, or your response will be determined as non-responsive. 3. State whether the requested supplies may be ordered against a government contract awarded to your organization (e.g Federal …