Summary
The Department of Veterans Affairs, through the 252-Network Contract Office 12 (Great Lakes Acquisition Center), is soliciting quotes for an Overhead Speaker Mass Notification System to be installed at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois. This is a Combined Synopsis/Solicitation (not a grant program) currently set aside for small businesses, with Product Service Code 6350 (Miscellaneous Alarm, Signal, and Security Detection Systems). The system will leverage the existing fire alarm speaker infrastructure per NFPA 72 and includes new IP-AVA interface hardware and a virtual machine server connected to the main fire alarm panel for all-call emergency notification across the connected network.