SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Disposal of Infectious Medical Waste
- Notice Date
- 8/11/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 562112
— Hazardous Waste Collection
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Mobility Command, 375th Contracting Squadron, 201 East Winters Street, Building 50, Scott AFB, Illinois, 62225-5037, United States
- ZIP Code
- 62225-5037
- Solicitation Number
- F3S4019119AC01
- Archive Date
- 8/29/2009
- Point of Contact
- Amy E. Titcombe, Phone: 618-256-9285, Richard M Hansen, Phone: 618-256-9318
- E-Mail Address
-
amy.titcombe@scott.af.mil, rich.hansen@scott.af.mil
(amy.titcombe@scott.af.mil, rich.hansen@scott.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a sources sought for the disposal of infectious medical waste. We are seeking all sources, to include all categories of small business, SDVOSB, 8(a), HubZone, and large businesses. PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT FOR MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITY SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE IL 1 Oct 09 - 30 Sept 10 with 1 Option Year 1. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and services necessary to collect, and package medical waste consists of: sharps containers contents of blood bags, intravenous devices, lancets, needles, scalpels, scissors and sharps, specimen tubes, and syringes with needles. Red bag contents: dressing dripping with blood, gauze dripping with blood, hemodialysis tubes, hemovac and tubing, intravenous bags and tubing with blood, lab waste, pleuro-vac & chest tubes, suction canisters, sump drains. The contractor shall comply with all transportation of bio-medical waste in accordance with (IAW) Illinois and/or Missouri, if disposed in that given state, all federal laws and regulations and interstate transportation requirements from 375th Medical Treatment Facility (MTF), Scott AFB, IL to a medical waste treatment and disposal facility licensed to accept medical waste. 1.1. SPECIFIC TASKS 1.1.1. Point Of Collection. The point of collection shall be from building 1530 Room CB40 at the MTF loading dock. Prior to pickup, the QAP or Alternate shall be contacted. 1.1.2. Remove medical waste from (MTF), place into a state licensed transport vehicle, and take to an approved medical waste treatment facility. 1.1.3. Complete a manifest showing materials, type of medical waste, number of boxes, and total weight transported from the treatment facility. This manifest shall contain the name and address of the MTF, designation of the treatment site, and certification that the untreated waste was properly handled, packaged, and labeled. 1.1.4. Transport medical waste to an approved medical waste treatment facility and treat it to make it noninfectious (if not rendered noninfectious by the MTF and/or unrecognizable, as appropriate). 1.1.5. Treatment shall include incineration at a minimum temperature of 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, steam sterilizing, chemical disinfection, irradiation, or any other method certified by the state/local environmental regulatory agency to render the waste noninfectious. 1.1.6. Dispose of any ash after incineration after certifying the ash has been properly treated. 1.1.7. Certify, on the manifest, that the waste has been treated and disposed of and return the original manifest to the QAP. 1.1.8. Promptly disinfect surfaces of transport vehicles, which have had untreated medical waste leaked or spilled onto them. Contractor must provide the QAP with a copy of their hazardous waste spill plan within 7 days after contract award. 1.2. Operating Procedures: The Contractor shall submit to the QAP for approval a proposed work schedule and written operating procedures for removal of medical waste within 1 day after contract award. These procedures shall govern the methods of segregation, packaging, labeling, marking, storing, manifesting, transportation, disposal, reporting and record keeping according to 40 CFR, Part 259. The Contracting Officer (CO) prior to their implementation must approve all changes. 1.3. Tracking Forms: The contractor shall secure the signature of the QAP, alternate or facility manager verifying the weight, total number of containers/bins or boxes, and type of medical waste. The manifest will be signed by the Contractor's representative to verify pickup and a signed original will be provided to the QAP. Once the medical waste is destroyed in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local regulations, the Contractor shall verify the destruction by signature and return the signed manifest to the QAP in Facility Management within two working (48 hrs) days. 1.4. Emergency Pickup Services: When notified by the CO or the QAP, the Contractor shall respond to emergency situations as described in their hazardous waste spill plan. The initial request may be verbal but will be followed by written direction. 1.5. RECORDS: The contractor shall be responsible for creating, maintaining, and disposing of only those Government required records that are specifically cited in this PWS or required by the provisions of the mandatory directives listed in Appendix 2, Applicable Publications and Forms. If requested by the Government, the contractor shall provide the original record or a reproducible copy of any such record within 5 working days of receipt of the request. 2.0 SERVICE DELIVERY SUMMARY: RESERVED 3.0 GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY AND SERVICES. The Government shall furnish the use of storage area, which is located at Building 1530, room CB40. 3.1. CONTRACTOR FURNISHED PROPERTY AND SERVICES. Except for those items or services specifically stated, as Government furnished the contractor shall provide everything else needed to perform the contract. This includes all necessary containers or bins, tape, bags and labels required for the accumulation of medical waste products. 3.1.1. Container Requirements. The Contractor shall maintain a sufficient supply of medical waste containers at the MTF. The Contractor-provided bins/containers/boxes must be rigid, leak-resistant, impervious to moisture, and have sufficient strength to prevent tearing or bursting under normal conditions of use and handling. Rigid containers shall be lined with, as a minimum, 3 mil. red bags for an inner liner. 3.1.2. The purchase of extra 3 mil red bags shall be accomplished upon notification from the government to the company not to exceed four boxes per year. 3.1.3. Manifests. The Contractor shall provide manifest shipping documents. These manifests shall be approved by the appropriate state or states regulatory agency/Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for medical waste shipped or delivered to appropriate state and any state being transported through. 3.2. REQUIRED REPORTS: 3.2.1. Appropriate states manifest and final report for testing and destruction of materials. 3.3.2. Shipping document to include bar coding each container for tracking of destruction of item. 3.3.3. Completed original manifest to document required destruction of item. 4.0 GENERAL INFORMATION: 4.1. PERFORMANCE PERIOD: 1 October 2009 through 30 September 2010. 4.2. HOURS OF OPERATION. The Contractor shall perform the services required on Wednesday between 8:00 am -3:00 pm., excluding Federal Holidays 4.3. FEDERAL HOLIDAYS. Contractor shall not be required to provide service on federal holidays. They are: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King JR's Birthday, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day or Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, it is observed on Friday; if it falls on Sunday, it is observed on Monday. 4.4. EMERGENCY OR SPECIAL EVENT SERVICE. (DISASTER OR MASS CASUALTY MAY CAUSE FOR ADDED PICK-UPS IN THE EVENT OF A NATURAL DISASTER OR WAR) 4.5. CONTRACT PERSONNEL: 4.5.1. The Contract Manager and alternate(s) shall be able to understand, read, speak, and write, the English language. 4.5.2. The Contractor shall provide a contract manager who shall be responsible for the performance of the work. The name of this person and alternate(s) who shall act for the Contractor when the manager is absent shall be designated in writing to the Contracting Officer (CO). The manager may perform services under this contract in addition to contract management duties. 4.5.3 The Contract Manager or alternate shall have full authority to act for the Contractor on all contract matters relating to daily operation of this contract. 4.5.4. The Contract Manager or alternate shall be available within 4 hours to meet on the installation with government personnel (designated by the CO) to discuss problem areas. 4.5.5. Contractor personnel shall present a neat appearance and be easily recognized as Contractor employees. Personnel shall be neat and clean, well groomed, and in appropriate clothing. Clothing shall fit correctly to provide professional, modest appearance in keeping with normally accepted community standards of dress for the work being performed. 4.5.6. The Contractor personnel shall wear Contractor provided nametags or badges while on duty, which contain both the company and employee's name. 4.5.7. The Contractor shall not employ persons for work on this contract if such employee is identified to the Contractor by the CO as a potential threat to the health, safety, security, general well being or operational mission of the installation and its population. 4.5.8. The Contractor is cautioned that off duty active military personnel hired under this contract may be subject to permanent change of station (PCS), change in duty hours or deployment. Military Reservists and National Guard members may be subject to recall to active duty. The abrupt absence of these personnel could adversely affect the contractor's ability to perform. Their absence at any time shall not constitute an excuse for nonperformance under this contract. 4.6. RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES. This is a nonpersonal services contract. Contractor personnel are not subject to the supervision and control of the Government officer or employee. (FAR 37.104(a)(1)(ii). Rather, contractor personnel perform their duties IAW specific tasks outlined in the Performance Work Statement. Supervisory functions such as hiring, directing, counseling, firing of contractor personnel are not performed by the Government. The contractor employee who furnishes services under this contract is subject to Government technical oversight of the services provided. The government retains the right to reject services for contractual nonperformance. 4.7. CONFLICT OF INTEREST. The Contractor shall not employ any person who is an employee of the United States Government if the employment of that person would create a conflict of interest. Additionally, the Contractor shall not employ any person who is an employee of the Department of the Air Force, either military or civilian, unless such person seeks and receives approval in accordance with DoD Directive 5500.7 and Air Force policy. APPENDIX 1 1. DEFINITIONS: 1.1. Quality Assurance Personnel (QAP). A functionally qualified person who performs quality assurance functions for a contracted service 2. TECHNICAL DEFINITIONS: 2.1. These definitions may vary from state to state. If the state law is more inclusive, it should take precedence. Regulated Medical Waste include the following classes of waste: 2.2. Cultures and Stocks. Cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biologicals, including: cultures from medical and pathological laboratories; cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories; waste from the production of biologicals; discarded live and attenuated vaccines; and culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures. 2.3. Pathological Waste. Human pathological waste, including tissues, organs, and body parts and body fluids that are removed during surgery, autopsy, or other medical procedures, and specimens of body fluids and their containers. 2.4. Human Blood and Blood Products. (1) Liquid waste human blood; (2) products of blood; (3) items saturated and/or dripping with human blood; (4) items that were saturated and/or dripping with human blood that are now caked with dried human blood; including serum, plasma, and other blood components, and their containers, which were used or intended for use in either patient care, testing and laboratory analysis or the development of pharmaceuticals. Intravenous bags are also included in this category. 2.5. Sharps. Sharps that have been used in animal or human patient care or treatment or in medical, research, or industrial laboratories, including hypodermic needles, syringes (with or without the attached needle), Pasteur pipettes, scalpel blades, blood vials, needles with attached tubing, and culture dishes (regardless of presence of infectious agents). Also included are other types of broken or unbroken glassware that were in contact with infectious agents, such as used slides and cover slips. 2.6. Animal Waste. Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding of animals that were exposed to infectious agents during research (including research in veterinary hospitals), production of biologicals, or testing of pharmaceuticals. 2.7. Isolation Waste. Biological waste and discarded materials contaminated blood, excretion, exudates, or secretions from humans who are isolated to protect others from certain highly communicable diseases, or isolated animals known to be infected with highly communicable diseases. 2.8. Chemotherapy Waste. Waste from Antinioplastic Drugs (ADs) agents or chemicals that occurs as remnants in containers or tubes or is waste due to accidents or spills. Also includes outdated (ADs) that need to be disposed of as waste. ADs are also known as cytotoxic, chemotherapy, or anticancer drugs. APPENDIX 2 APPLICABLE PUBLICATIONS AND FORMS: Publications and forms applicable to this performance work statement are listed below. The publications and forms have been coded as mandatory or advisory. The Contractor is obligated to follow those publications and use those forms coded as mandatory to the extent specified in other sections of this Statement of Work (SOW). The Contractor shall be guided by those publications or use those forms coded advisory to the extent necessary to accomplish requirements in the SOW. The Government shall provide all publications and forms listed at the start of the contract. "IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONTRACTOR TO ESTABLISH FOLLOW-ON REQUIREMENTS WITH THE PUBLICATIONS DISTRIBUTION OFFICE (PDO) Supplements or amendments to listed publications from any organizational level may be issued during the life of the contract. The Contractor shall immediately implement those changes in that result in a decrease or no change in the contract price and notify the CO in writing of such change. Should a decrease in contract price result; the Contractor shall provide a proposal for a reduction in the contract price to the CO. Before implementing any change that will result in an increase in contract price, the Contractor shall submit to the CO a price proposal within 30 calendar days following receipt of the change by the Contractor. The CO and the Contractor shall negotiate the change into the contract under the provisions of the contract clause entitled "Changes." Failure of the Contractor to submit a price proposal within 30 calendar days following receipt of the change entitles the Government to performance according to such change at no increase in contract price (unless the time requirement is waived by the CO according to Para (c) of the Changes clause). (Unless the time requirement is waived by the CO according to Para (c) of the Changes clause). PUBLICATION NO. TITLE/DATE MANDATORY/ADVISORY 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous Waste Operations M and Emergency Response Plan 40 CFR 259 Medical Waste Tracking Act M 40 CFR 261 Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart Ce Emission Guidelines and Compliance M Times for HMIWIs 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart Ec Standard Performance for HMIWIs M 49 CFR Part 172 Subpart B Table of Hazardous Material and M Special Provisions TECHNICAL EXHIBIT 1 WORKLOAD ESTIMATE 1. It is estimated that the Contractor will be required to dispose of approximately 1500 pounds per month of regulated medical waste and chemotherapy waste during the contract period. An estimate of each type follows: a. Regulated Medical Waste: 1000. b. Chemotherapy Waste: 10. c. Other Regulated Waste (Specify): 490 Pathological.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITY, SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE IL, Scott AFB, Illinois, 62225, United States
- Zip Code: 62225
- Zip Code: 62225
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