Sources Sought
Lidocaine 5% Patches-Request for Information
Department of Veterans Affairs
AI summaryThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National CMOP Office is doing market research for L0515: Lidocaine 5% Patches, box of 30. This is a sources sought notice (a request for information), not a solicitation. Businesses reply by email with a capability statement by the response due date of November 3, 2026, 5:00 PM Central. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Department of Veterans Affairs who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National CMOP Office is doing market research for L0515: Lidocaine 5% Patches, box of 30. This is a sources sought notice (a request for information), not a solicitation. Businesses reply by email with a capability statement by the response due date of November 3, 2026, 5:00 PM Central.
How to submit: Email to Kayla Powers at Kayla.Powers@va.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 13, 2026.
- Worth checking: Very large monthly volumes. The seven sites together call for tens of thousands of boxes each month, so a small business needs to show real production and distribution capacity.
- Minor: Deliveries every two weeks. You would ship a two-week supply on a fixed schedule, which sets how much inventory and shipping capacity you need.
- Minor: Market research only. No solicitation exists yet, responses are voluntary, and the Government will not pay for response costs.
Read from the notice and 1 attachment. Show which files.
- LIDOCAINE PATCHES.docx (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Supply L0515 Lidocaine 5% Patches, box of 30: a prescription patch, 10 cm x 14 cm, with 700 mg of lidocaine (50 mg per gram of adhesive)
- Estimated boxes per month by site: Site 760, 19,200; Site 761, 28,800; Site 762, 42,000; Site 763, 60,000; Site 764, 21,000; Site 765, 39,000; Site 766, 37,200
- Deliver every two weeks, a two-week supply that matches the monthly estimates
- Base period of one three-month period plus three three-month options, up to 12 months in all
- Send a capability statement with company details, business size, ability to supply the quantities, available contracts, delivery lead times and feedback on the draft requirement
- Period of performance
- One three-month base period plus three three-month option periods, 12 months in all. The notice says options will not be exercised once recovery occurs.
- Place of performance
- Kansas, as SAM.gov gives it. The notice names delivery sites 760 to 766 without addresses.
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 3, 2026, 5:00 PM Central
- How to submit
- Email to Kayla Powers at Kayla.Powers@va.gov
What to include when you submit
- Put 'Sources Sought Response – L0515 Lidocaine 5% Patches 36C77027Q0010' in the email subject line
- Give company name, address, point of contact, email, phone number and unique entity identifier (UEI, your SAM.gov registration number)
- State your business size and socioeconomic category (for example Small Business or service-disabled veteran-owned small business)
- Show you can supply the required quantities, including any production or distribution limits
- List available contracts, if any (the notice gives Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), Distribution and Pricing Agreement (DAPA) and Electronic Catalog (ECAT) as examples)
- Give delivery lead times and logistics capabilities
- Add any feedback on the draft requirement
Not in the notice text
- Set-aside, contract type and how a future award would be decided are not stated; SAM.gov shows no set-aside
- Delivery addresses for Sites 760 to 766 and the start date are not given
- What 'recovery' means in 'Options will not be exercised once recovery occurs' is not explained
- Whether holding a particular contract (FSS, DAPA or ECAT) is required to be considered is not stated
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- National CMOP Office (36C770), Leavenworth, KS
- Product/service code
- 6505 · Drugs and Biologicals
- Business type
- Medical & healthcare (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 325412)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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