MODIFICATION
Q -- MEDEVAC 3 - Amendment 3
- Notice Date
- 7/27/2016
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 621910
— Ambulance Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Mail Code: BG, Houston, Texas, 77058-3696, United States
- ZIP Code
- 77058-3696
- Solicitation Number
- NNJ16580281QR1
- Point of Contact
- Jon Prihoda, Phone: 2812446959, Roger Roberts, Phone: 2814832916
- E-Mail Address
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jon.prihoda@nasa.gov, roger.m.roberts@nasa.gov
(jon.prihoda@nasa.gov, roger.m.roberts@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Historical Data for Travelers/Trips Part 2 This notice constitutes Amendment 3 to the combined synopsis/RFQ for NNJ16580281QR1 entitled "MEDEVAC 3." This notice serves as the official amendment to subject synopsis/RFQ and a written amendment will not be issued. The purpose of this amendment is to: 1.Update Section G "Additional Requirements" of the Statement of Work to remove the requirements related to the circumstances where a contractor shall guarantee payment of hospital expenses in the event of a medical emergency. Therefore, the current MEDEVAC 3 Statement of Work is hereby deleted in its entirety and is replaced with the Statement of Work provided below. 2.Update the "Relevant Documents" Section to include a copy of "Historical Data of Travelers/Trips Part 2", which provides the number of days spent in each country for Fiscal Years 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 (to date). 3.Change the NNJ16580281QR1 due date/time for receipt of offers from 07/29/2016 at 4:00 PM Central to 8/11/2016 at 4:00 PM Central. I. Statement of Work (SOW) A.Overview of Requirement The contractor shall provide resources necessary to accomplish an "Air Ambulance Evacuation" in response to an international medical emergency for all International Space Station (ISS) and Johnson Space Center (JSC) sponsored international travelers on a pre-paid basis. "Air ambulance evacuation" includes providing fully trained, licensed, and certified medical personnel and equipment to ensure the sick, or injured, international traveler is provided the proper services to be stabilized prior to and during air transportation of the traveler. Additionally, the contractor shall provide services for the traveler who is experiencing a medical condition that requires (1) accompanying medical escort during transport, (2) English (or other language native to the patient) speaking medical translation during either in-patient hospitalization or out-patient definitive medical care; (3) in situations where a traveler is hospitalized, the contractor will provide assistance with locating the nearest appropriate medical facility trained to U.S. standards of medical care. When a NASA ISS physician and/or family members are accompanying the individual on travel, the contractor shall provide air transportation for the NASA physician, as well as, at least one personal companion to accompany the patient. B.Evacuation Cost Responsibility If a medical event occurs, which triggers a medical evacuation, all evacuation costs shall be the responsibility of the contractor and no additional cost will be incurred by NASA for evacuation or for bed side case management. C.Decision to Evacuate The decision to perform an air ambulance medical evacuation shall be made jointly by the contractor and NASA based on the clinical judgment of NASA ISS physicians who will apply U.S. standards of medical care. Such services will include air ambulance evacuation and repatriation services to a hospital in the United States (U.S.) or NASA's hospital of choice. D.Enrollment Requirements Travelers shall not be required to be pre-enrolled in order for the contractor to provide services. The contractor shall provide a flat rate for group membership per contract period for 18,000 travel days per anum to the locations included, but not limited to, the locations in the attachment entitled "Historical Data of Travelers/Trips." The contractor shall also provide a unit price per additional travel day beyond the number of travel days for each period. E.Electronic Registration The contractor shall provide a secure electronic registration process options that: (1) Educates travelers on specific instructions to follow should an emergency occur (2) Provides a description of the scope of contractor's services. (3) Indicates any limitations of these services. (4)Provide any disqualifying reasons for not providing the services. (5) Captures critical traveler information that expedites an evacuation when necessary. F.Additional Medical Travel Assistance Services The contractor shall provide additional medical travel assistance services for the ISS and JSC travelers on international travel. Examples of these services include the following: •Pharmacy assistance; •Obtaining medical monitoring; •Obtaining medical referrals and consultations with English-speaking doctors; •Hospital admittance; •Coordination with medical providers to ensure timely access to medical care; •Facilitation of hospital payments; •Coordination of insurance information between the patient, insurer, and Medical providers; •Assistance obtaining medications, vaccines, blood transfers, and medical devices; •Repatriation of mortal remains for overseas travelers; •Provide guarantee of payment services, when necessary, after exhausting other possibilities including traveler's health insurance, traveler or family members' credit card, etc. •Additional bed side case management services such as in-person interaction and care at no additional cost; •Provide medical translation and interpretation to include telephonic language assistance with medical incidents and medical translations of medical records to the extent required to resolve the medical emergency. NASA will co-develop the notification process for timely communication and dissemination of confidential medical reports with the contractor. G.Additional Requirements The contractor shall participate with NASA contingency planners in Table Top simulations of evacuation events to validate communication plans and decision making procedures. NASA anticipates approximately two exercises per year. Historically, the exercises are held by a telecom or videoconferencing. Total time involved in the simulations is approximately 10 hours per year and is a paper exercise to test contingency scenarios related to medical emergencies. The contractor shall visit JSC for a face to face meeting with JSC senior management and JSC medical operations personnel within the first six months of the contract with a second visit to occur during the base period of performance. The contractor is responsible for all costs, excluding medical bills, which are the responsibility of the traveler receiving medical attention. The contractor shall collect the necessary insurance information from the traveler when required and coordinate payment of medical expenses directly with the traveler receiving medical attention and his or her insurer. The due date for receipt of offers is extended from 7/29/2016 to 08/11/2016. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of this combination synopsis/solicitation and amendments. Companies shall provide the information stated in the synopsis/RFQ posted on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS) on 06/10/2016. Documents related to this procurement are available over the Internet. These documents reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server which may be accessed using a WWW browser application.
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- Address: Moscow, Russia, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Nordvijk, Netherlands, Tsukuba, Japan, United States
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