36C26121Q0046 CONTAINMENT SERVICE FOR VA SAN FRANCISCO.docx

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COVID 19 Containment & Infection Prevention Project 95652-2609 36C26121Q0046 10-09-2020

8AM

PACIFIC TIME, LOS ANGELES, USA

N 332311 Department of Veterans Affairs VA Sierra Pacific Network (VISN 21) VA Northern California HealthCare System 5342 Dudley Blvd, Bldg 209 McClellan CA 95652-2609 Brandy Gastinell brandy.gastinell@va.gov San Francisco VA Medical Center 4150 Clement Street San Francisco

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94121

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brandy.gastinell@va.gov This is a Sources Sought only. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is performing market research to identify companies capable of immediately providing containment barrier maintenance services for the San Francisco VA Medical Center (VASFHS) located in San Francisco, CA. Containment barrier maintenance services will be provided onsite at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. As part of its Market Research, NCO 21 is issuing this RFI to determine if there exists an adequate number of qualified interested contractors capable of providing the CPT services as further described in the draft SOW. The Government may use the responses to this RFI for information and planning purposes. The draft SOW describes only the currently contemplated possible scope of work and may vary from the work scope in a final SOW included in any Request for Quote (RFQ). The anticipated period of performance two (2) months with an option to extend services up to ten (10) months. The contractor will be providing services for the San Francisco VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121.

There is no solicitation document as this time. The NAICS is 332311 with Small Business size of 750 employees. NOTE: Please ensure that System for Award Management (SAM) (www.sam.gov) indicates this NAICS code if you are interested in the requirement.

Only firms seriously interested and truly capable should send their information and/or capability statement and any questions by email to brandy.gastinell@va.gov a no later than 8AM Pacific Time, October 9, 2020.

If interested, please provide the following information. Failure to provide the following information completely and accurately may result in a determination that your company is not a viable source:

· Name of Company

· Point of Contact Name, phone number, and email address

· DUNS number

· Socio-economic status such as Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, VOSB, Women-Owned Small Business, etc. should be included. SDVOSB/VOSB status will be verified using VetBiz.

· Capability statements that include the following:

· Identify geographical areas your company currently services?

· Approximately how many current healthcare employees do you have in the service area(s)?

· Indicate prior experience for same/similar service in these geographical areas. If the experience is through government contract, please identify the contract number.

· Identify generally what administrative resources your organization has in the areas identified. For example, identify offices located in the identified region.

· Explain how your organization can rapidly fulfill the COVID-19 testing described above for the health care system identified.

· Identify approximately how long on average it would be from receipt of service request to having testing completed for the Las Vegas VA Healthcare facility.

· Describe what resources your company has to quickly have COVID-19 cost per tests completed by the timeline described in the Statement of Work.

· Describe experience providing COVID-19 testing services to the Department of Veterans Affairs (not a minimum requirement, but should be noted)

· Identify which healthcare system(s) your company is capable/interested in providing the COVID-19 cost per test service.

· Identify any COVID-19-related terms and conditions that would need to be addressed in any agreements/contracts.

· If you will rely on a subcontractor to assist with performance, please clearly identify what functions your company will perform versus those of the subcontractor(s). When responding to the preceding questions, avoid using “teaming” language, e.g. Team ABC has 20 years of experience or Team ABC has placed 15,000 staff. Clearly identify what functions/experience/resources your company has and will be able to perform independently of a subcontractor. Ambiguous responses that lack clarity will affect the Contracting Officer’s ability to determine if your company is a viable source for this requirement.

Before responding please carefully read and consider the following:

As this is a service acquisition, the Small Business Administration and the Federal Acquisition Regulation have a Limitations on Subcontracting requirement. For all small businesses, to include SDVOSB and VOSB, “At least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel shall be expended for employees of the concern.” See FAR 52.219-14 and FAR 52.219-27 available in full text at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/html/52_217_221.html

The Service Contract Act will apply.

Please see the DRAFT Statement of Work attached for further details.

DISCLAIMER

This Sources Sought notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this request that is marked proprietary will be handled accordingly. The Government will not compensate an offeror for providing information in response to this sources sought. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to cancel this requirement at its discretion. This is simply a sources sought notice.

Statement of work

Objective For COVID-19 Containment system. This SOW is the use of equipment rental, containment barrier maintenance, containment/s modifications (if needed) with existing onsite equipment/barriers and our project documentation.

Containment Oversite -Contractor will utilize current onsite barriers and equipment with prior notice to onsite BMS Project Manager.

-Modifications requiring extra barriers, equipment or doors not already onsite will need prior approval.

-Contractor will provide all erected containment barriers, doors and equipment maintenance.

-Contractor will provide digital recording micro manometers.

- Contractor will provide primary and secondary filters throughout the duration of the project.

- Contractor will provide mats, tacky, walk off, these will be changed during scheduled containment checkups.

- Contractor will check all containments up to three times a day.

- Contractor personnel monitoring the equipment, changing filters and entering the containments daily will be utilized full COVID-19 required PPE to include full or half face respirators with P100 cartridges.

-If at any time San Francisco VA staff notice any barrier breeches, they will have our contractor’s onsite crews cell phone number and the issue will be addressed in a timely manner.

-At the end of the contract, contractor personnel will HEPA vacuum and wet clean the containment with an approved COVID-19 EPA registered disinfectant. Once the areas is cleaned, the containment will be dismantled and demobilized.

-All HEPA filtered equipment utilized within a known COVID-19 Patient vicinity will be disposed of and replaced with new at the end of the project.

If applicable, the infection control permit will be displayed on all containments, as well as any associated interim life safety communication. These negative pressure enclosures will be used in conjunction with HEPA filtered air filtration units, which will filter up to 99.97 of the airborne particles down to 0.3 microns. Onsite contractor personnel performing work on the project have participated in training on Infection Control Policies and Procedures. This training also includes information on hospital emergency codes, HIPAA, interim life safety measures, and site-specific safety issues.

A visual inspection will be conducted for each work area under containment up to three times a day. During each inspection, contractor will document the conditions using our APIC based containment inspection checklists to verify the integrity of the enclosure.

Location- San Francisco Veteran Administration Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street San Francisco, CA 94121

3rd FLOOR AREAS:

ICU – Anteroom, ICU13, ICU14, ICU15, ICU16, ICU17 & ICU18 TCU – Patient Room 3B40, 3B42, 3B44, 3B46, 3B50 & 3B52 OR – OR# 8, Adjoining Corridor & Adjoining Scrub Room

BUILDING 200 GROUND FLOOR AREAS:

Respiratory Screening GA169 Respiratory Screening GA170 Respiratory Module 3 Waiting Area Emergency Department GD 118

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