SOLICITATION NOTICE
S -- Biomedical Waste Service
- Notice Date
- 8/16/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 562111
— Solid Waste Collection
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;James A. Haley Veterans Hospital (90C);Attn: David Chittenden;13000 Bruce B. Downs Blvd;Tampa FL 33612
- ZIP Code
- 33612
- Solicitation Number
- VA-248-07-RP-0094
- Response Due
- 9/28/2007
- Archive Date
- 11/30/2007
- Point of Contact
- David Chittenden Contract Specialist (813) 972-7589
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
- Description
- Biomedical waste service for the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa Florida, the VA Outpatient Clinic located in New Port Richey Florida, and the Orlando VA Medical Center located in Orlando Florida. This is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) set-aside. At this time, only proposals submitted by firms classified as Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business will be accepted. Solicitation issue date on/about 30 August 2007. All available solicitation documents will be available on the FedBizOpps system, under solicitation number VA-248-07-RP-0094. Intended duration of the resultant contract is a nine month base period beginning 1 December 2007 through 30 September 2008, plus four twelve-month option periods. The contractor shall furnish all labor, vehicles, containers, transportation, and disposal, for collection, storage, removal, transportation, and disposal of biomedical non-hazardous waste. Hazardous waste is not included. The contractor shall comply with all current local, state, and federal regulations and guidelines when collecting, storing, removing, transporting, and disposing of all wastes. Contractor shall provide an exchange collection cart system for use in the facilities, carts must be sanitized prior to return. Contractor shall provide sufficient number of mobile collection containers as needed. Number and size of carts and containers shall be determined by the size and volume of each facility. Containers shall be full-size mobile collection containers with hinged lockable lids, constructed of a material to eliminate sharps perforation and leakage during handling and transportation. Full-size containers must be designed to provide waste collection and shipping in same container. Each time the carts or containers are picked up they shall be replaced by an equal number of washable and sanitized re-usable empty sterile containers. The contractor shall provide compatible equipment for lifting, stacking and storing collection containers. Carts and containers will be placed by VA personnel in all areas of each facility. VA personnel will close or seal the carts filled with waste and transport the carts to the loading area. The contractor shall provide properly permitted and licensed trailers or containers for temporary storage and highway transportation of collection containers filled with waste. The contractor shall maintain and repair the storage containers as needed. The contractor shall respond to any requests by the facilities to exchange full trailers for empty trailers within twenty four hours of notification. The contractor shall provide the VA with manifests for all biomedical waste removed from the site. PLEASE NOTE - under Public Law 109-461, the SDVOSB contract awardee is required to perform at least 50 percent of the cost of personnel for contract performance, using its own employees, or using employees of other service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, i.e., subcontractors or teaming firms. The contract management strategy for meeting the 50 percent labor threshold must be clearly described as part of the required proposal submittals. If you intend to submit a proposal please contact the VA Contracting Officer, David Chittenden, at (813) 972-7589 or email david.chittenden@med.va.gov. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (16-AUG-2007). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 10-OCT-2007, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/TaVAMC673/TaVAMC673/VA-248-07-RP-0094/listing.html)
- Record
- SN01432049-F 20071012/071010230816 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
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