The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee intends to issue a sole source, firm fixed priced contract to Mar Cor Purification, Inc., 4450 Township Line Road. Mar Cor Purification, Inc. provides water purification systems and service to medical, pharmaceutical and other bacteria controlled applications. Additionally, Mar Cor Purification, Inc. provides filtration/separation and disinfectant technologies to the medical and life science market. Mar Cor Purification, Inc. will service, sanitize, and screen Main R/O Membranes and the Reverse Osmosis Water System located at the Memphis VA Medical Center, 1030 Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104. This system reduces the particles down to the molecular level as well as removes inorganic solids and other impurities within water. The requirement will be sole sourced to Mar Cor Purification, Inc. Mar Cor Purification, Inc. is the only firm capable of providing the proprietary supplies and services described above due to Siemens required direct authorization for service on their systems. Mar Cor purchased the hemodialysis division from Siemens and is therefore the sole source. No other vendors are currently authorized to perform the requested service maintenance. All warranties and guarantees on the system are voided if unauthorized third party vendor is engaged. This procurement is being conducted in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1 and 13.106-1(b) (2), "soliciting from a single source." The NAICS code is 811219 and has a size standard of $19M for this procurement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement and submit quotations no later than 8:00a.m. CST, February 3, 2014 to:
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