H--Linear Accelerator (4th Q-PMI)

Notice of Intent: Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (VISN 9), Mountain Home, TN intends to award a sole source procurement under FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source with Varian Medical Systems (NAICS code: 334517 ), for the following service: Varian Medical Systems, Inc., headquartered globally in Palo Alto, California, is the world's leading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managing comprehensive cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers and medical oncology practices. Varian is a premier supplier of tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical, scientific, and industrial applications and also supplies X-ray imaging products for cargo screening and industrial inspection. More than 6,000 of Varian's medical linear accelerators for cancer radiotherapy and radiosurgery are in service around the world, treating tens of thousands of patients per day. The company also produces advanced brachytherapy systems for treating cancer. Varian X-ray tubes are sold to most major diagnostic equipment manufacturers and cover a range of applications including advanced mammography and CT scanning. The company also produces the PaxScan line of real-time, digital X-ray image detectors, which are incorporated in many types of diagnostic imaging systems. The company's Security and Inspection group is the market leader in high-energy X-ray devices for non-destructive testing and cargo screening. The government has determined that only one manufacturer can satisfy the agency's requirement and intends to negotiate with only one source. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be accepted. However, any vendor that determines it can meet the government's requirements may give written notice through email to Contract Specialist, Lewis F. Grogg, contact@example.gov by July 12, 2012 4:00PM EST. Supporting evidence must be furnished in sufficient detail to demonstrate ability to provide the above requirements at no cost or obligation to the government. All responses received will be evaluated by the government; however the information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement solely at the discretion of the government. If no responses are received the VA Mountain Home will precede to sole source this requirement to Varian Medical Systems.