Nitrile Gloves PPE

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Background On November 15, 2021, the President signed The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Pub. L. 117-58).

In addition to authorizing funds for federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, under Section, Subtitle C of the IIJA, the “Make PPE in America”, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) are required to purchase all personal protective Equipment (PPE) from American suppliers (manufacturers and distributors) with 100 percent American-made components.

Scope The purpose of the contract is to ensure a 100% domestically sourced, American manufactured product (gloves), including 100% of all components of IIJA Compliant medical grade and surgical grade gloves to NIH and all HHS agency customers. This is a Small Business Sources Sought Notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding:

(1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources;

(2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible.

An organization that is not considered a small business under the NAICS codes below should not submit a response to this notice.

339112 – Surgical and medical instrument manufacturing 339113—Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing 325212 - Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing 339114 -– Dental Equipment and Supplies 423990-- Personal safety devices and supplies 423450--Medical, Dental and hospital Equipment and Supplies Wholesale, whose small business standard Capability Statement Content Small business owners capable of meeting the Government’s requirements for providing conference, administrative, and travel support services to the NIH community are encouraged to submit a capability statement.

In addition to capability statements, firms must include this information in their responses: (1) Organization name, address, email address, website address, and telephone number (2) Size and type of ownership and socio-economic designation (i.e., Small/Large Business, HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned, 8(a)) as it relates to the above NAICS Codes small business size-standard) (3) Business experience to include:

a summary to demonstrate how you can meet all deliverables detailed in draft SOW (4) Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) (5) Additional information and/or comments The Government will not notify respondents of the results of the evaluation of the data received. No contract award will be made based on responses received. However, this information will be used in NIH's assessment of services available on the market. No faxed responses. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. No solicitation is being issued at this time. **PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHMENT TAB FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION - DO NOT SEND QUOTES**