VA Medical Center, Attn: Contracting (P4 CONT), 4th Plain Blvd. & St. Johns Road, Vancouver, WA 98661

Q -- REPROCESS SEQUENTIAL COMPRESSION DEVICE SLEEVES (SCD) SOL IFB-648-10-00 DUE 122299 POC Rich Hague, Contracting Officer, (360) 905-1790 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, richard.hague@med.va.gov. The Portland VA Medical Center is seeking commercially available services to provide the reprocessing of Sequential Compression Devices (SCD Sleeves) collected from the Portland VA Medical Center by an FDA approved and regulated company. The Portland VA Medical Center estimates approximately 140 pairs per month of SCD sleeves within the 3 various sizes (S, M, L). The contractor must comply in all respects with the Medical Center Policy (MCM 0-60). Contractor must provide the necessary personnel, instructions, training and supplies to enable the VA Medical Center staff to properly collect and store the SCD sleeves prior to collection by the contractor. Contractor shall collect the SCD sleeves once every other week and return the reprocessed and repackaged SCD sleeves to the VA Medical Center, Portland, within 30 days of collection from the VA Medical Center. Contractor shall clean, disinfect, and package each device in accordance with ANSI/AAMIISO standard 11135-1994 and ANSI/AAMI standard ST24-1992 in an ISO 9001 registered facility. Contractor shall also provide a device monitoring system that will insure that no device is processed for reuse more than 20 times. Contractor shall provide reports as specified each month which document the nature, frequency, and results of all quality assurance testing performed on the SCD sleeves during the past month that relates to the contractor's reprocessing and repackaging of the Portland VA Medical Center devices. Services shall be provided for the period of January 1, 2000 through June 30, 2000. All interested parties are invited to submit a bid to the address above. Solicitations are only available at the following URL at no cost http://www.va.gov/oa&;mm/busopp/sols.htm. Any amendments issued to this solicitation will also be available at this URL. Bidders are advised that they are responsible for obtaining amendments. No paper solicitations will be issued. Posted 11/22/99 (W-SN402792). (0326)

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