VISN 17 HOME OXYGEN SERVICE CONTRACT   6

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 17 intends to issue a Request for Proposal for VISN-Wide Home Oxygen Delivery Services. Some of the responsibilities include the delivery and set up of VA owned home oxygen and ventilator equipment, rental of B, D, E, H, K or M Cylinder and liquid systems, and individual supplies to include all required tubing and FireSafe /FailSafe devices for the home oxygen patients of VISN 17. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement will be 621610 with a $15 million small business size standard. Interested parties must be actively registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) system. The RFP will be conducted as a 100% set-aside for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) that are actively verified by the VA Center for Verification and Evaluation. Information may be found at https://www.va.gov/osdbu/verification/. Posting of the solicitation is estimated to be on/or about 15 May 2019. Interested parties are reminded that since this requirement is set-aside for SDVOSBs, the Limitation on Subcontracting clause will require that the SDVOSB not pay more than 50 percent of the amount paid by the government to it to firms that are not similarly situated (i.e., SDVOSB). Any work that a similarly situated subcontractor further subcontracts will count towards the 50% subcontract amount that cannot be exceeded. Service locations will include the following areas: Station ID Facility Address 549 (Est. start 9/01/2019) VA North Texas Health Care System 4500 South Lancaster Road, Dallas, TX 75216 671 (Est. start 9/01/2019) South Texas Veterans Health Care System 7400 Merton Minter Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78229 674 (Est. start 9/01/2019) Central Texas Veterans Health Care System 1901 Veterans Memorial Drive, Temple, TX 76504 740 (Est. start 9/01/2019) VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System 2601 Veterans Drive, Harlingen, TX 78550 504 (Est. start 11/01/2021) Amarillo VA Health Care System (Thomas E. Creek VAMC) 6010 Amarillo Boulevard West, Amarillo, TX 79106 519 (Est. start 11/01/2021) West Texas VA Health Care System 300 Veterans Boulevard, Big Spring, TX 79720 756 (Est. start 11/01/2021) El Paso VA Health Care System 5001 North Piedras Street, El Paso, TX 79930 Point of Contact: Juan Martinez, Juan.Martinez4@va.gov