71--Isogel Mattress

The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hampton, Virginia, has a requirement for an Isogel Air ® specialty mattresses and pumps, manufactured by Stryker Medical. Products are to be new and under manufacturer's warranty. The NAICS code is 339113 and the size standard is 500 employees. This is not a request for bids, quotes or proposals. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement only. This purpose of this notice is to conduct market research and obtain information from qualified businesses. The responses to this announcement will assist in determining the socio-economic set aside if feasible. The Department of Veterans Affairs is required by Public Law 109-461 to give first priority to SDVOSB and VOSB concerns if there should be sufficient firms available to compete under a set aside. If insufficient veteran owned and small business response is received to establish the basis for setting this action aside for other than large business participation, then the action will be advertised as full and open competition, in which case, all interested parties responding shall be eligible to bid. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary; the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government. Interested parties submitting a response to this inquiry must include the following information: name and address of company; business size (large or small); identify applicable socioeconomic categories and any pertinent information which demonstrates firms ability to meet the above requirement. All responses shall be submitted no later than July 26, 2013 at 12:00pm EDT. Responses shall be emailed to: contact@example.gov.