J--Service Contract for Diaylsis Units

INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE The Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office (NCO) 6 intends to enter into a sole source procurement for the Fayetteville VA Medical Center, with Baxter Healthcare Corporation, One Baxter Parkway, Deerfield, IL. The procurement is for an annual preventive maintenance contract for Gambro Phoenix Dialysis machines. Period of performance will be from October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016. NAICS code 334510 applies this procurement. The proposed contract action is for the preventive maintenance of dialysis which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. This notice of intent is not a request for quotations. Interested person may identify their interest in this requirement to contact@example.gov no later than 2:00 PM EST, September 28, 2015. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. All information shall be furnished at no cost or obligation to the government. No solicitation will be made available. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to the notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.