Clinical Impedance Bridge

South Dakota

06/13/2025 05:09 PM EDT

06/20/2025 10:00 AM EDT

SUBJECT*

Clinical Impedance Bridge Black Hills Health Care System (BHHCS) 

GENERAL INFORMATION

CONTRACTING OFFICE’S ZIP CODE*

52241

SOLICITATION NUMBER*

36C26325Q0897

RESPONSE DATE/TIME/ZONE

06-20-2025 10:00 CENTRAL TIME, CHICAGO, USA

ARCHIVE

45 DAYS AFTER THE RESPONSE DATE

RECOVERY ACT FUNDS

N

SET-ASIDE

PRODUCT SERVICE CODE*

6515

NAICS CODE*

334510

CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS

Department of Veterans Affairs

NETWORK 23 CONTRACTING OFFICE

1303 5th St

Suite 300

Coralville IA  52241

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contract Specialist

Brian Whalen

brian.whalen-crichton@va.gov

319-688-3754

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

ADDRESS

Department of Veterans Affairs

Black Hills Health Care System

Fort Meade Medical Center

113 Comanche Road

Fort Meade SD  57741-1002

US

DESCRIPTION

The Black Hills Health Care System requires a Clinical Impedance Bridge with the Salient Characteristics listed below.

This is a sources sought looking for businesses to provide the supplies listed below for market research purposes. No awards of a contract will be made from this announcement.

If you are a vendor that can provide the requested information above and required supplies described below with competitive pricing, send your information (to include your organization's Unique Entity Identifier number) with a description of proof of capability to: brian.whalen-crichton@va.gov on or before June 20th, 2025. Only emailed responses will be considered.

Additionally, please provide answers as appropriate to the following questions in the table below with your response to this sources sought. Failure to respond to the following questions may affect the acquisition strategy.

1. Identify your organization's socio-economic category.

2. Identify if your organization is the manufacturer of the requested supplies. If you are not the manufacturer, identify the manufacturer of the supplies that you will provide, their socio-economic category and a letter showing that your organization is an authorized distributor for the requested supplies. 

3. Fill out the certificate under FAR Provision 52.225-2(b), identifying the item and its country of origin. ( https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52#FAR_52_225_2__d3401e52). If the product is a US domestic end product, write in USA for the item's country of origin.

4. State whether any of the requested supplies may be ordered against a government contract awarded to your organization (e.g Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), General Services Administration (GSA), etc.).

5. Address whether your organization meets the requirements of 13 CFR 121.406 (b)(1)(i), (b)(1)(ii) and (b)(1)(iii) (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-13/chapter-I/part-121/subpart-A/subject-group-ECFR0fca5207262de47/section-121.406#p-121.406(b)).

6. State if subcontracting is contemplated for this requirement and what percentage of the requirement will be subcontracted and for what tasks.

7. Provide estimated shipping and delivery information for the requested supplies (e.g. Expected lead time on delivery).

If applicable, VAAR 852.219-76 VA Notice of Limitations on Subcontracting—Certificate of Compliance for Supplies and Products, will apply to the potential solicitation if set-aside for Veteran Owned Small-Businesses.*

*If applicable, VAAR 852.212-71 Gray Market Items, will apply to the potential solicitation.*

*If applicable, FAR 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting, will apply to the potential solicitation if set-aside for Small-Businesses. *

Statement of Work

Clinical Impedance Bridge

The Black Hills VA Health Care System (BHHCS) require brand name or equal supplies with the following characteristics:

1. Probe.Handheld, easily portable, and battery powered. Required to perform:
   1. 1. Traditional tympanometry,
      2. Distortion product OAE (otoacoustic emissions),
      3. Transient evoked OAE (otoacoustic emissions),
      4. Wideband tympanometry,
      5. Eustachian tube dysfunction testing, 
      6. eSRT (electrical evoked stapedius reflex thresholds), 
      7. Ipsilateral acoustic reflexes, 
      8. Contralateral acoustic reflexes,
      9. Reflex Decay
2. Touch panel
   1. 1. Compatible with the above listed probe

Item Number   NOMENCLATURE                      Quantity

1                      Clinical Impedance Bridge          1EA

2                       IA Eartip Kit, 6-14,16,18             10EA

3                       Touch Panel                                1 EA