Department of Veterans Affairs, Contracting Officer (670 90A), Va Medical Center, 800 Irving Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210-2799

R -- PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRAIVE, AND MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES SOL 670-35-00 DUE 071400 POC Fran Leip (315) 476-7461 *3637 or fax 477-4508 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, Fran.Leip@med.va.gov. The VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY is accepting proposals for Health Physicist Services. The Contractor shall assign personnel who are certified nuclear medicine physicists by the American board of Health or the ACR. The qualifications of such personnel shall also be subject to review prior to execution of the contract, by the Department of Veteran Affairs. The physicist will be needed approximately five to ten hours per week and be available for unlimited telephone calls twenty four hours a day. The specific functions of this individual will be to provide regulatory support, necessary annual training as required by regulation, and attend quarterly radiation safety committee meetings. Also, they shall provide advisory support for technologists and radiologists as requested, shielding designs as necessary, and acceptance testing of new equipment. The person will provide insight and advisement for research laboratories using radioactive material license support to include amendments and renewals. They will perform sealed source leak testing and inventory evaluations as prescribed by the license, along with departmental program record reviews and procedure manual review. The Physicist must provide quarterly linearity checks and annual calibration of the Nuclear Medicine dose calibrator, well counter calibration, and ventilation checks of rooms and hoods. They should assist, when called upon, in the setup and cleanup for major Iodine-131 therapies. The individual shall calculate patient radiation dose estimates in accordance with JACHO standards and review therapies to ensure NRC compliance. The incumbent must also provide assistance upon request in the instructions of the medical center personnel as required by state, federal and medical center accreditation agencies. All interested parties must submit a written response to the attention of Fran Leip, Contracting Officer, VA Medical Center, 800 Irving Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210 or fax to 315-477-4508. The Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC) is 8999 and the size standard is $5.0 mil. Solicitation document will be available on or about 06/27/00. Posted 06/21/00 (W-SN466893). (0173)

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