SOURCES SOUGHT
J -- Blood Gas Analyzer - Radiometer 03/11/2020-03/10/2021 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY
- Notice Date
- 2/26/2020 9:33:03 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334516
— Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- 250-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 10 (36C250) DAYTON OH 45428 USA
- ZIP Code
- 45428
- Solicitation Number
- 36C25020Q0364
- Response Due
- 3/2/2020 8:59:59 PM
- Archive Date
- 03/05/2020
- Point of Contact
- Wendy.Stewart@va.gov
- E-Mail Address
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wendy.stewart@va.gov
(wendy.stewart@va.gov)
- Awardee
- null
- Description
- NO PHONE CALLS SHALL BE ACCEPTED STATEMENT OF WORK I. SCOPE OF WORK: The Contractor shall provide all parts, materials, labor, test equipment, technical manuals and transportation necessary to perform preventive maintenance and unlimited emergency repairs on the Government owned Radiometer ABL 80 blood gas analyzers (Qty: 2; EE# 72831 SN: 311057 and EE#72832 SN: 311058) located in Cardiology Medicine and PALMS in Building 1 at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, 2215 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, for the period of the base year March 11, 2020 through March 10, 2021 and four (4) option years lasting until March 10, 2025 in strict accordance with all schedules, specifications, terms, conditions and provisions of this contract. Options are exercised at the Government s discretion. II. CONFORMANCE STANDARDS: All services provided under this contract must be performed in conformance with the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and Original Equipment Manufacturer standards and specifications. III. HOURS OF WORK: A. Hours of Work for telephone support and emergency repairs are defined as Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., excluding federal holidays, or as otherwise arranged with the Contracting Officer Representative. B. The ten holidays observed by the Federal Government are New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Also, any other day declared by the President of the United States to be a national holiday. C. Work performed outside of normal working hours of coverage at the request of the Contracting Officer or Contracting Officer's Representative shall be billed separately. IV. PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE: Vendor shall provide one annual preventative maintenance including cleaning, lubrication, alignment, and replacement of predetermined parts. V. SUPPORT & EMERGENCY REPAIR SERVICE: A. Emergency repair service shall consist of maintaining the equipment in accordance with the Conformance Standards Section (Section II). Repair service shall consist of replacing parts, calibration, cleaning, oiling, adjusting and maintaining the equipment except those services necessitated by accident, fire or abuse. B. The Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer Representative have the authority to approve/request a service call from the Contractor. C. Response Time: The Contractor's Field Service Engineer must respond with a phone call to the Contracting Officer Representative within two (2) hour after receipt of notification in an effort to correct the problem by phone. If the problem cannot be corrected by phone, the Field Service Engineer shall commence work (on-site physical response) within forty-eight (48) hours after receipt of notification and shall proceed progressively to completion without undue delay. VI. PARTS: The Contractor shall furnish all parts as necessary to maintain the equipment, covered by this contract, in accordance with the Conformance Standards Section (Section II). The Contractor stipulates that he/she has ready access to new standard parts (manufactured, supplied by the manufacturer, or equal thereto). All parts supplied shall be of current manufacture and have full compatibility with existing equipment. Documentation of intended parts source(s) shall be provided to the Contracting Officer upon request. VII. DOCUMENTATION/REPORTS: The Contractor shall submit a legible field service report, which shall include detailed descriptions of the preventive maintenance inspection or emergency repair services performed, including replaced parts and estimated prices required for the service call. NOTE: Any additional charges to be claimed must have been approved by the Contracting Officer Representative before service was performed. VIII. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS: The Contractor shall be required to report to the Biomedical Engineering Shop , Rm. BB30 or Maintenance & Repair Office, Rm. BB49, to obtain a contractor badge and to log in and out during normal business hours (8am 4:30pm). On weekends, holidays, or outside of normal business hours, contractor shall obtain the contractor badge and log in and out with the VA Police, Rm. BB78. This check in and out is mandatory. When the service is completed, the Contractor shall document services rendered on a legible field service report which will be submitted at the time of logging out. IX. COMPETENCY OF PERSONNEL SERVICING EQUIPMENT: A. The Contractor's staff shall include a ""fully qualified"" Field Service Representative assigned to this area and a ""fully qualified"" Field Service Representative who shall serve as the backup. B. Fully qualified"" is based upon training and on experience in the field. For training, the Field Service Representatives must have successfully completed a formalized training program for the equipment covered under this contract. For field experience, the Field Service Engineers must have a minimum of one (1) year of experience providing preventive maintenance and emergency repair services on the same make and model of equipment covered under this contract. C. The contractor shall provide written assurance of the competency of their personnel by detailing a list of Field Service Representatives along with applicable training and years of service experience on the specific devices covered in this agreement. This information shall be included in the quoted proposal for providing service. X. TEST EQUIPMENT: Upon request of the Contracting Officer s Representative or the Contracting Officer, the Contractor shall provide copy of the current Calibration Certification of all test equipment which is to be used by the Contractor to perform service under this contract. Calibration of equipment shall be traceable and in conformance with test equipment Original Equipment Manufacturer standards. XI. SAFETY REQUIREMENTS: In the performance of this contract, the Contractor shall take such safety precautions as the Contracting Officer may determine to be reasonably necessary to protect the lives and health of occupants of the building. The Contracting Officer shall notify the Contractor of any safety issues and the action necessary to correct these issues. Such notice, when served on the Contractor or his representative at the work site shall be deemed sufficient for the corrective actions to be taken. If the Contractor fails or refuses to comply promptly, the Contracting Officer may issue an order stopping all or part of the work, and hold the Contractor in default. XII. NETWORKING/PATIENT HEALTH INFORMATION The devices are on the network and contain patient health information. The vendor is able to connect to the device remotely prior to servicing. XIII. PRIVACY INFORMATION REQUIREMENT: The contractor and all sub-contractors may be required to complete annual privacy training by reading and signing the Privacy Training TMS 20939. The contractor shall provide to the contracting officer and/or the COR a copy of the training certificates and certification of signing the Privacy Training TMS 20939 for each applicable employee within 1 week of the initiation of the contract and annually thereafter, as required. Failure to complete the mandatory annual training and sign the Privacy Training annually, within the timeframe required, is grounds for suspension or termination of all physical or electronic access privileges and removal from work on the contract until such time as the training and documents are complete. XIV. SECURITY INCIDENT REQUIREMENTS The contractor/subcontractor shall provide notice to VA of a security incident as set forth in the Security Incident Investigation section above. Upon such notification, VA must secure from a non- Department entity or the VA Office of Inspector General an independent risk analysis of the data breach to determine the level of risk associated with the data breach for the potential misuse of any sensitive personal information involved in the data breach. The term 'data breach' means the loss, theft, or other unauthorized access, or any access other than that incidental to the scope of employment, to data containing sensitive personal information, in electronic or printed form, that results in the potential compromise of the confidentiality or integrity of the data. Contractor shall fully cooperate with the entity performing the risk analysis. Failure to cooperate may be deemed a material breach and grounds for contract termination. a. Each risk analysis shall address all relevant information concerning the data breach, including the following: (1) Nature of the event (loss, theft, unauthorized access); (2) Description of the event, including: (a) date of occurrence; (b) data elements involved, including any PII, such as full name, social security number, date of birth, home address, account number, disability code; (3) Number of individuals affected or potentially affected; (4) Names of individuals or groups affected or potentially affected; (5) Ease of logical data access to the lost, stolen or improperly accessed data in light of the degree of protection for the data, e.g., unencrypted, plain text; (6) Amount of time the data has been out of VA control; (7) The likelihood that the sensitive personal information will or has been compromised (made accessible to and usable by unauthorized persons); (8) Known misuses of data containing sensitive personal information, if any; (9) Assessment of the potential harm to the affected individuals; (10) Data breach analysis as outlined in 6500.2 Handbook, Management of Security and Privacy Incidents, as appropriate; and (11) Whether credit protection services may assist record subjects in avoiding or mitigating the results of identity theft based on the sensitive personal information that may have been compromised. Based on the determinations of the independent risk analysis, the contractor shall be responsible for paying to the VA liquidated per affected individual to cover the cost of providing credit protection services to affected individuals consisting of the following (1) Notification; (2) One year of credit monitoring services consisting of automatic daily monitoring of at least 3 relevant credit bureau reports; (3) Data breach analysis; (4) Fraud resolution services, including writing dispute letters, initiating fraud alerts and credit freezes, to assist affected individuals to bring matters to resolution; (5) One year of identity theft insurance with $20,000.00 coverage at $0 deductible; and (6) Necessary legal expenses the subjects may incur to repair falsified or damaged credit records, histories, or financial affairs. XV. RECORDS MANAGEMENT LANGUAGE The following standard items relate to records generated in executing the contract and should be included in a typical Electronic Information Systems (EIS) procurement contract: 1. Citations to pertinent laws, codes and regulations such as 44 U.S.C chapters 21, 29, 31 and 33; Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552); Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a); 36 CFR Part 1222 and Part 1228. 2. Contractor shall treat all deliverables under the contract as the property of the U.S. Government for which the Government Agency shall have unlimited rights to use, dispose of, or disclose such data contained therein as it determines to be in the public interest. 3. Contractor shall not create or maintain any records that are not specifically tied to or authorized by the contract using Government IT equipment and/or Government records. 4. Contractor shall not retain, use, sell, or disseminate copies of any deliverable that contains information covered by the Privacy Act of 1974 or that which is generally protected by the Freedom of Information Act. 5. Contractor shall not create or maintain any records containing any Government Agency records that are not specifically tied to or authorized by the contract. 6. The Government Agency owns the rights to all data/records produced as part of this contract. 7. The Government Agency owns the rights to all electronic information (electronic data, electronic information systems, electronic databases, etc.) and all supporting documentation created as part of this contract. Contractor must deliver sufficient technical documentation with all data deliverables to permit the agency to use the data. 8. Contractor agrees to comply with Federal and Agency records management policies, including those policies associated with the safeguarding of records covered by the Privacy Act of 1974. These policies include the preservation of all records created or received regardless of format [paper, electronic, etc.] or mode of transmission [e-mail, fax, etc.] or state of competition [draft, final, etc.]. 9. No disposition of documents will be allowed without the prior written consent of the Contracting Officer. The Agency and its contractors are responsible for preventing the alienation or unauthorized destruction of records, including all forms of mutilation. Willful and unlawful destruction, damage or alienation of Federal records is subject to the fines and penalties imposed by 18 U.S.C. 2701. Records may not be removed from the legal custody of the Agency or destroyed without regard to the provisions of the agency records schedules. 10. Contractor is required to obtain the Contracting Officer s approval prior to engaging in any contractual relationship (sub-contractor) in support of this contract requiring the disclosure of information, documentary material and/or records generated under, or relating to, this contract. The Contractor (and any sub-contractor) is required to abide by Government and Agency guidance for protecting sensitive and proprietary information. END OF STATEMENT OF WORK NO PHONE CALLS SHALL BE ACCEPTED
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Department of Veterans Affairs;Ann Arbor Healthcare System;2215 Fuller Road;Ann Arbor MI 48105 48105, USA
- Zip Code: 48105
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 48105
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- SN05573498-F 20200228/200226230259 (samdaily.us)
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