Solicitation for commercial products and commercial services, specifically
dental equipment for the Corpus Christi VA
dental clinic. Offerors must complete blocks 12, 17, 23, 24, 30. Offers due **** at 2:00 PM CDT. Submissions must indicate country of origin; products made in America will be given preference. Invoices must be submitted electronically via the Tungsten Network (www. ***. *. *). Trade-ins are possible for specified equipment. Delivery is FOB destination. Normal business hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Central Time, Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. The vendor is required to define the need for a staging area, if needed. The vendor is required to manage and coordinate deinstallation and installation at the VA Corpus Christi specialty
dental clinic with the VA POC. The vendor shall provide a warranty certificate form stating the warranty period, terms, and information required to initiate the warranty. The products shall be covered by vendors standard warranty terms and provisions, provided, however that the warranty coverage shall be no less than the following: parts only, covering defects in material and workmanship, 5 years for
dental chairs, stools, lights, delivery systems, monitor mounts, and
dental furniture. 1 year for
clinical products. The vendor shall extend such warranty directly to the customer as if such customer had purchased the products directly from the vendor. The vendor shall warrant the products against defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service, repair or replace at vendors cost any defective product or issue a credit or refund, as the case may be, based on the purchase price paid therefor and the vendor shall pay or refund the amount of all freight and shipping charges for any defective products returned under this paragraph. The contractor will not have access to VA desktop computers and will not have access to online resources belonging to the government while conducting services. If removal of equipment from the VA is required, any memory storage devices, such as hard drives, solid state drives and nonvolatile memory units will remain in VA control and will not be removed from VA custody. All research data available for contractor analyses is deidentified. The contractor shall comply with all applicable records management laws and regulations, as well as national archives and records administration nara records policies. The contractor shall maintain all records created for government use or created in the course of performing the contract andor delivered to, or under the legal control of the government. Electronic records and associated metadata must be accompanied by sufficient technical documentation to permit understanding and use of the records and data. The contractor shall immediately notify the appropriate contracting officer upon discovery of any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosures of information, data, documentary materials, records or equipment. The contractor is required to obtain the contracting officers approval prior to engaging in any contractual relationship subcontractor in support of this contract requiring the disclosure of information, documentary material andor records generated under, or relating to, contracts. The contractor and any sub contractor is required to abide by government and tvcbhcs guidance for protecting sensitive, proprietary information, classified, and controlled unclassified information. The contractor shall only use government IT equipment for purposes specifically tied to or authorized by the contract and in accordance with tvcbhcs policy. The contractor shall not create or maintain any records containing any non public tvcbhcs information that are not specifically tied to or authorized by the contract. The contractor shall not retain, use, sell, or disseminate copies of any deliverable that contains information covered by the privacy act of **** or that which is generally protected