The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System intends to negotiate on a Sole Source basis with Haworth, Inc., 1 Haworth Center, Holland, MI 49423-9570, for them to furnish and install the following Haworth, Inc. furniture items, that are noted as GSA off their GSA FSS Contract#GS-28F-8014H, and the items noted as Open Market as an open market item added to their GSA FSS Delivery Order, for the following reasons: (Estimated Cost - $4,941.53 (Haworth, Inc. Product Price $3,744 and Burke and Michael Services Price - $1,198). Haworth, Inc. Part Numbers being purchased: SPLD-8436 - Qty 2 (Open Market) SPLK-2382 - Qty 2 (Open Market) E2MP-278-B - Qty 2 TARA-2340-LJSNCE - Qty 1 LFSS-530-LD0HX - Qty 1 JSPY-0530-S1 - Qty 2 WUDD-2442-LTSC - Qty 6 It is essential to the government's needs, to purchase Haworth, Inc. Systems Furniture, since the Government already has existing similar Haworth, Inc. furniture, and needs additional furniture to fit with this existing furniture, and must purchase and have installed, the Haworth, Inc. brand furniture listed by part number below, since only the Haworth, Inc. furniture being purchased will fit together with the existing Haworth, Inc. furniture. (See email from Robert Madaras in the Contract File under P03 of the Purchase Request Action Briefcase). In addition, it is essential to purchase the items from Haworth, Inc., since they have offered pricing for the items that need to be purchased, which they have claimed are lower than what their authorized reseller's cost is to purchase the items for resale from Haworth, Inc., and therefore, lower than what any other Haworth, Inc. authorized reseller, including those who Haworth, Inc. authorizes to sell on their GSA FSS Contract, can offer, allowing the Contracting Officer to reasonably assume that no other GSA Contractor can offer a lower price and/or would be willing to provide a Quote, being they would be losing money. In addition, while conducting Market Research, the Contracting Officer obtained feedback from two other GSA Contractors who are authorized resellers for Haworth, and they both indicated they would not quote being they could not offer a lower price off their GSA Contract, than what Haworth, inc. can offer. Therefore, the Contracting Officer considers there to be only One Responsible Source who can provide the Best Value to the Government, and will not solicit three Quotes from other GSA FSS Contractors for this reason. (See emails from Phil Todd of Haworth, Inc. and from two other GSA Contractors, in the Contract File under P03 in the Purchase Request Action Briefcase). It is also necessary to have a Contractor that will use Burke and Michael to perform the delivery and installation, since they have existing knowledge of the design, being they have installed the VA's existing Haworth Furniture, that the furniture items being purchased must be installed to, which will allow for faster installation and a cost savings to the Government, and since they are an authorized Haworth, Inc. installer, which Haworth requires to do the installation for them to honor their Warranty, and Haworth, Inc. is using Burke and Michael to do the delivery and installation on this acquisition. This Notice of Intent is NOT a request for competitive proposals. Parties may identify their interest; accompanied by supporting literature, to the Contracting Officer no later than 8/13/2012 COB. Responses should be sent to
[email protected]. No telephone responses will be accepted. Information received will be for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. The determination to conduct a competitive procurement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 337127 and the small business size standard for this NAICS Code is 500 Employees. Contracting Office Address: Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Contracting Officer, 1010 Delafield Road, (90C-A), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15215-1802 Point of Contact(s): Point of Contact - Ronald S. Mazzei, Contract Specialist, Ph: (412) 822-3770.