Intent to Sole Source - 1 YEAR PMA TO COVER DA VINCI ROBOT

This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for proposal. The National Institute of Health intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with the following vendor: SDV MEDICAL. Acquisition Description: This is an URGENT request to put the PMA in place by March 19th . The purpose of this acquisition is for Department of Peri-operative Medicine to request a Preventative Maintenance Agreement from SDV Medical for the XI Robot. This service is needed to provide Urology surgeons with the ability to perform Prostate and Nephrectomy surgery on patients using the DaVinci XI Robot without interruption based on the Robot being consistently software updated and checked for proper functionality. The National Cancer Institutes Urologic Oncology Branch uses the da Vinci Xi Surgical