THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. In preparation for a future procurement, the VA Medical Center in Buffalo, NY is performing market research to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources and their size classification (service disabled veteran owned small business, veteran owned small business, hub zone, 8(a), small disadvantage business, woman-owned, small business, or large business) relative to NACIS 339113 (size standard 500 employees) that can offer same or similar surgical products listed below: Ethicon #7258E E-Pack Procedure Kit contents as follows: Qty (Packets) Ethicon # Size Needle Description 2 SA8 2 - Silk Black Braided 2-60" Strands 1 678 0 FSL Silk Black Braided 18" Cutting FSL 1 X183 4-0 - Ethibond Excel Green Braided 12-18" Strands 2 X424 0 CT-1 Ethibond Excel Green Braided 30" Taper CT-1 2 X966 2-0 V-7 (2) Ethibond Excel Green Braided 36" Tapercut V-7,V-7 3 8521 4-0 SH (2) Prolene Blue Monofilament 36" Taper SH, SH 2 8522 3-0 SH (2) Prolene Blue Monofilament 36" Taper SH, SH 4 8557 4-0 RB-1 (2) Prolene Blue Monofilament 36" Taper RB-1, RB-1 4 8706 6-0 C-1 (2) Prolene Blue Monofilament 30" Taper C-1, C-1 1 8725 5-0 C-1 (2) Prolene Blue Monofilament 24" Taper C-1, C-1 1 J323 2-0 MH Coated VICRYL Violet Braided 27" Taper MH 2 J347 1 CT-1 Coated VICRYL Violet Braided 36" Taper CT-1 2 J458 3-0 X-1 Coated VICRYL Undyed Braided 27" Cutting X-1 27 Packets per Kit 40 Needles per Kit Interested companies should submit an electronic statement outlining their company's capability and capacity to provide the product, the specifications of the therapy units, and the delivery time to deliver the product to Buffalo, NY. Also, firms should provide their business size status in accordance with the small business administration guidelines (www.sba.gov) for the NAICS code they fall within. This Sources sought is for informational purposes and all businesses able to provide these supplies are encouraged to submit information regardless of Business size. Please email statements of capabilities to Marc Amorese no later than Friday, August 24th at 01:00PM Eastern time to [email protected]. This notice is to assist the VA in determining sources only. A solicitation is not currently available. If a solicitation is issued it will be announced at a later date, and all interested parties must respond to that solicitation announcement separately from the responses to this announcement. Responses to this sources sought synopsis are not considered adequate responses to any future solicitation announcements.

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