Intent to Sole Source: SpaceLabs

The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to award a sole source contract to SpaceLabs Medical Inc. for the installation of SpaceLabs antennas at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, GA. The antennas are required for remote telemetry for bedside patient monitoring and must be able to feed signals into tunable receivers that interface and display ECG and SpO2 data to a central station. The estimated amount for 16 antennas to be installed is valued at $250,000. • The installation and configuration of these antennas require use of proprietary software and parts that can only be provided by Spacelabs. • Existing antennas use authentic Spacelabs parts and are also monitored and supported by them through a support contract. • The contract is being awarded on a sole source basis due to the need for expansion and seamless integration with the existing hospital telemetric infrastructure.