# Pre-Solicitation Notice with Intent to Sole Source Research Support Services

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/36c24e24q0137

- Solicitation number: 36C24E24Q0137
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Awarded to Charles King
- Department: Department of Veterans Affairs
- Contracting office: Rpo East (36C24E)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AN11 Health R&D Services; Health Care Services; Basic Research
- County: Allegany County (FIPS 24001). https://abierto.us/counties/allegany-county-md-24001
- City: Cumberland. https://abierto.us/cities/cumberland-md-2421325
- First posted: September 21, 2024
- Last posted: September 21, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/dbd0ef506e9b46e8a5a4d884791ccbac/view

## Description

Special Notice Special Notice Page 3 of 3 Pre-Solicitation Notice for the notice of intent to award a sole source contract. This is not a solicitation. The Department of Veterans Affairs, Puget Sound Health Care System intends to negotiate a sole source contract for a one (1) year base period to include up to two (2) option years with Charles King of Socketdyne, LLC, to obtain research support services in support of an ongoing research project for the Center for Limb Loss and MoBility (CLiMB).

Mr. King is a certified prosthetist with more than twenty years of professional experience. He possesses the proprietary technology and know-how to provide the required sensor and research support services in an ongoing prosthetic research project for which there is no commercially available product. Charles King of Socketdyne is the only known vendor that can provide the specialized research support services required.

Since the intent is to procure this on a sole source basis, no solicitation will be posted to Contract Opportunities. The applicable NAICS code is 541715 with a 1,000 employees size standard. The PSC is AN11. The authority for this action is FAR 6.302-1 Only One Responsible Source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This is a notice of intent and is not a request for competitive quotes.

However, any responsible source who can provide an equivalent service with the features described above, may submit a capability statement to the contracting office no later than Monday, September 23, 2024, 3:00 PM, EDT. Interest/capability statements which specifically detail how your service meets the requirement may be sent to Shannon Hukriede at shannon.hukriede@va.gov. No telephone responses will be accepted. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Charles King (UEI DC1UYH2FULZ5)
- Contract: 36C24E24P0116, purchase order
- Obligated: $241,543.00
- Competition: Not Competed, 1 offers received
- Link: solicitation number 36C24E24Q0137 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office 36C24E (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_36C24E24P0116_3600_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- September 21, 2024: Special notice, due September 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM EDT. Notice dbd0ef506e9b46e8a5a4d884791ccbac. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/dbd0ef506e9b46e8a5a4d884791ccbac/view

## Points of contact

- Shannon Hukriede, Contracting Officer, shannon.hukriede@va.gov, (Calls will not be accepted)

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