The Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN-6 VA Healthcare System is requesting information related to vendors capable of providing an Argon Plasma Coagulator, brand name or equal to model APC2 Argon Plasma Coagulator offered by Erbe, USA to the Asheville VAMC. The equipment will be located in Asheville, NC. This is not a request for bids, quotes, or proposals. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT announcement only. The purpose of this notice is to conduct market research and obtain information from qualified businesses. The responses to this announcement will assist in determining the socio-economic set aside if feasible. The Veterans Administration is required by Public Law 104-9 to give first priority to SDVOSB and VOSB concerns if there should be sufficient firms available to compete under a set aside. If insufficient veteran owned and small business response is received to establish the basis for setting this action aside for other than large business participation then the action will be advertised as full and open competition, in which case, all interested parties responding shall be eligible to bid. This notice shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to ultimately award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary; the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government. Interested parties should submit with their response the following information no later than noon (EST) on August 15, 2011 and include POC information, business size, and business SBA classification(s). All questions should be addressed to [email protected].

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