MODIFICATION
42 -- Evacuation Chairs
- Notice Date
- 7/8/2009
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 423450
— Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, Maryland, 20857-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20857-0001
- Solicitation Number
- 1060562
- Archive Date
- 7/28/2009
- Point of Contact
- Michelle Street, Phone: 3018277155, Gina Jackson, Phone: 301-827-7181
- E-Mail Address
-
Michelle.Street@fda.hhs.gov, gina.jackson@fda.hhs.gov
(Michelle.Street@fda.hhs.gov, gina.jackson@fda.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- EMERGENCY EVACUATION CHAIRS The Safety Management Team (SMT) is responsible for planning and managing emergency evacuations from CFSAN facilities. In the course of training lay staff responders in the operation of evacuation chairs last year, SMT Life Safety staff identified 5 critical problems. First, it learned that its existing equipment could not be reliably operated in its stairwells that have smaller intermediate landings, as there was insufficient room for turning the apparatus and person without lifting. In order to accommodate both staff and visitors, SMT needs to have evacuation equipment that can transport a person weighing up to 400 lbs. Lay staff responders cannot be expected to lift loaded emergency evacuation chairs in order to negotiate small-area landings. Second, a problem was identified due to the multiple types of evacuation chairs currently in use in CFSAN metropolitan Washington area facilities. Many staff responders move freely between buildings with differing equipment, making it difficult for them to participate in whatever building they are in at the time of evacuation if they are unfamiliar with that building’s evacuation chairs. Complexity is also introduced into initial and refresher training efforts due to the existing multiple chair types. Third, some CFSAN egress paths require upward-, rather than traditional downward-, directed operation of evacuation chairs. This is the case for the Wiley building basement, which has no basement-level exit to the outside, but which houses offices, labs, training suites, and an auditorium. Evacuation chairs must be specially designed for two-person fore and aft operation, i.e., be equipped with locking foot end grab handles, in order to ascend stairs without risking the chair overturning or injury to the responders. Fourth, chairs which require the person being transported to recline during transport are more difficult to load, by lay responders, than are those designed for loading by the individual simply sitting down. Fifth, heavier chair designs make it more difficult for lay responders to redeploy a chair back up steps to transport additional persons. The SMT proposes to replace existing evacuation chairs in all of its metropolitan Washington area facilities with a single model that successfully addresses all the incompatibilities or shortcomings noted above. Specifications for evacuation chair: To successfully address the incompatibilities and shortcomings noted above, replacement evacuation chairs will need to meet the following requirements: 1. Must have locking foot end lift handle to permit two-person chair lift (some CFSAN facilities have evacuation egress paths from basement occupancies that require ascending steps in stairwell; this requires a 2-person lift) 2. Design must permit navigation by lay responders in stairwells with small landing areas (several CFSAN stairwells have intermediate landings that are too small for operation of reclining-style evacuation chairs by lay responders) 3. Design must permit user to enter chair by sitting down 4. Chair must be light enough (not more than 40 lbs.) to be carried back up steps by lay responders in order to assist additional persons 5. At least 400 lb. weight capacity 6. Quote is for a total of nine (9) evacuation chairs (with wall brackets and chairs covers) 7.DELIVERY AND INSTALLATION MUST BE INCLUDED IN PRICE! Interested sources shall submit all price, descriptive literature and technical proposals, to Michelle Street, (Contract Specialist), email: Michelle.Street@fda.hhs.gov, or alternate Gina Jackson (Contracting Officer), email: Gina.Jackson@fda.hhs.gov. Please indicate the solicitation number on the outside of your package. Any incomplete responses or responses received after the closing will not be accepted. Faxed copies of proposal package will not be accepted. The coversheet to the proposal shall have the offeror’s information. The price and technical proposal shall only have the solicitation number. The offeror’s information SHALL NOT appear anywhere on or in the price or technical proposal. Closing date for receipt of proposals is July 13, 2009 at 2:00P.M. EST.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, Maryland, 20740, United States
- Zip Code: 20740
- Zip Code: 20740
- Record
- SN01868636-W 20090710/090709000118-147df67d7e87ea321684d3d2f95b0b91 (fbodaily.com)
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