Sole Source Award - Infusion Pump Server and Software

The Health Readiness Contracting Office awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order to Carefusion Solutions, LLC for the delivery and implementation of a proprietary Alaris Virtual Server and associated software to support centralized management, real-time monitoring, cybersecurity, and continuous quality improvement data analysis for 336 government-owned infusion pumps and 119 Progressive Care Unit devices at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The system is deemed essential for patient safety and operational readiness, and the award is justified as a sole-source procurement under FAR 12.102(a) due to the proprietary nature of the Alaris software, which is exclusively compatible with existing CareFusion hardware and has no commercially viable alternatives. The contract includes a base year plus four one-year option periods, spanning a total performance period from May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2031, with annual software maintenance and support included for the full duration. An existing Authority to Operate has been validated and is part of the contract file, ensuring compliance with federal information security standards, and installation and acceptance will occur on-site at the hospital. Although the contract is structured as a purchase order with clearly defined deliverables—including a perpetual license for the Alaris Systems Manager and five years of server maintenance—the pricing section lists all unit and extended prices as $0.00, and no total contract value is disclosed, indicating an unpriced or internally referenced cost structure tied to prior agreements. The acquisition was conducted under a waiver of publicizing requirements per FAR 5.302(b)(3), following comprehensive market research and a public sources-sought notice on SAM.gov that received no competitive responses. No competitive evaluation, scoring, or trade-off analysis was applied, and no socioeconomic, size, or representation certifications from the contractor are documented. The place of performance is clearly identified as Fort Campbell, Kentucky, while the contracting office is located at JBSA Fort Sam Houston, Texas. There are no specified packaging, marking, bar-coding, or FOB requirements, and no contracting officer’s representative or invoice submission details are provided, leaving administrative execution reliant on standard government oversight protocols.