6640--Sources Sought - Supply - Disposable Individually Ventilated Caging System for Rodents - Minneapolis VA Health Care Systemview on SAM.gov

The Minneapolis VA Health Care System Research Department requires a firm-fixed price 5-Year Indefinite Delivery/Definite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with ordering periods to purchase Innovive disposable individually ventilated caging (IVC) systems (which include all permanent racks, disposable caging, and all necessary equipment to enable their functioning such as blowers, power supplies, filters, etc.) to house the Minneapolis VA Health Care System (MVAHCS) Research Department current rodent population in the event of sudden need. See the Preliminary Statement of Work 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 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing, with an SBA Small Business Size Standard of 1,000 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 Thursday, June 4, 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 proposi…