6515--Equipment - Safe Label System SLS 550i - Fort Wayne NIHCS

The Department of Veterans Affairs is proceeding with a sole-source procurement under Simplified Acquisition Procedures and FAR 6.103-1 for five Safe Label System SLS 550i units intended for use at the VA Northern Indiana Health Care System’s Fort Wayne Campus in Rehabilitation Medicine. The acquisition is designated as a small-business set-aside with a firm fixed price purchase order anticipated, and all equipment must be manufactured in America to comply with domestic preference requirements. The system is non-negotiable in its technical specification, as it is the only solution capable of integrating with the existing Cerner infrastructure at the facility. The procurement includes not only the five SLS 550i units but also five associated shelves with drawers and mounting kits, five starter kits containing labels and ink cartridges, one site license for the administration tool software, five licenses for the advanced smart scanning feature, five licenses for user list deployment to SPS PCs, one installation service package to be performed exclusively by Codonics personnel within the United States, and freight. Responses to this notice of intent must provide clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the government, and only email submissions addressed to Contracting Officer LouAnn Gilliland at louann.gilliland@va.gov will be accepted, with a deadline of June 25, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The contract is being administered by the Network Contracting Office 10 located in Kettering, Ohio, with the place of performance specified as Fort Wayne, Indiana. No solicitation package is available, and the award will be made without competitive procedures due to the unique technical integration requirements and the exclusive capability of the designated product. The NAICS code assigned is 339112 for Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing, and the Product Service Code is 6515. While detailed pricing, period of performance, delivery schedule, and inspection criteria are not provided in the notice, the installation work is limited to two days and must be performed by U.S.-based Codonics personnel.