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(Signature of person authorized to sign) (Signature of Contracting Officer) 01-08-2021 Department of Veterans Affairs Network 23 Contracting Office (NCO 23) 113 Comanche Rd.

Fort Meade SD 57741 Department of Veterans Affairs Network 23 Contracting Office (NCO 23) 113 Comanche Rd.

Fort Meade SD 57741 To all Offerors/Bidders

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X X 01-14-2021 The purpose of this amendment is to post Questions and Answers to the solicitation and to post a revised Statement of Work. See attachments below.

Donald R. Gilbert Contracting Officer B.3 STATEMENT OF WORK (Revised for amendment 002)

1.1 The contractor shall provide all labor, personnel, equipment including confidential containers (consoles/bins), supplies, secured vehicles, materials, supervision, and other related services necessary to provide on-site commercial document destruction services for confidential waste (administrative papers, sensitive documents, hard bound journals, magazines and white and mixed paper, DVD's and CD's)) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Fargo VA Healthcare System (VA 437), it's divisions and Outpatient Clinics.

1.2 The contractor shall set up locked security consoles that hold specially designed “blue bags,” at all VA 437 locations identified in this Statement of Work. The consoles will provide protection with a security slot, measuring 1.5 inches wide, that can accept up to 400 pages of paper at one time. As an additional security measure, an interior baffle below the deposit slot prevents material from being removed. Consoles will be approximately thirty-two (32) gallon containers measuring 36”h x20”w x19.5”d (or equivalent size) with a capacity of about seventy (75) pounds and two consoles will measure approximately 41”h x 29”w x 29”d (or equivalent size) with a capacity of about two hundred (200) pounds.

Only authorized individuals within VA 437 and the contractor can unlock the consoles to access the deposited materials.

1.3 VA 437 personnel in all locations are in the practice of putting all sensitive or administrative documents, as well as other paper, small cardboard boxes etc., in locked containers located throughout all VA 437 facilities.

1.4 Contractor will allow Federal Government’s auditor or designated representative access to inspect the destruction of material received from the Fargo VAMC.

1.5 Contractor will collect confidential media materials (CD, thermal labeling tapes, VHS, DVD) from the designated areas (see paragraph A 3) to be destroyed on every 4th week.

1.6 Contractor is responsible to ensure that all contractor employees entering the VA Facilities have and visibly display a valid Identification Card issued by the VA Police Office. Upon arrival at the Facility, the courier will also notify the COR by calling extension 3717.

1.7 Removed.

1.8 On a biannual basis (June and December) the contractor will provide a listing, in Excel format, with the following information for each console or bin:

Location Building number Room number Console/bin size in gallons

2. Places of Performance and Schedule: Pick-up at the following VA 437 sites shall occur weekly (Monday thru Friday between the hours of 8:00am and 3:30pm).

2.1 Fargo VA HCS Main Campus (2101 N Elm St, Fargo, ND 58102) pick up frequency and number of required collection bins:

Weekly

2.2 Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) locations, pick up frequency and number of required collection Bins:

Location

Bismarck VA CBOC Gateway Mall, 2700 State St Suite Bismarck, ND 58503

Weekly Console 65 Gal. Tote

Devils Lake VA CBOC 1031 7th St NE, Devils Lake, ND 58301

Weekly

65 Gal. Tote

Grafton VA CBOC 1319 11th St W Grafton, ND 58237

Weekly Console 65 Gal. Tote

Grand Forks VA CBOC 3221 32nd Ave S Suite 700 Grand Forks, ND 58201

Weekly Console 65 Gal. Tote

Jamestown VA CBOC 2430 20th St SW Suite 8 Jamestown, ND 58401

Weekly

Console

Minot VA CBOC 3400 S Broadway St Minot, ND 58701

Weekly Console 65 Gal. Tote

Fergus Falls VA CBOC 1839 N Park St Fergus Falls, MN 56537

Weekly

65 Gal. Tote

Bemidji VA CBOC 1217 Anne St NW Bemidji, MN 56601

Weekly Console / 2 65 Gal. Tote

2.3 Additional Collection Sites (leased space). NOTE: These are locations and spaces leased by the Fargo VA HCS. Their leases are subject to potential extension or retraction over the period of this document destruction contract. Locations, frequency of destruction, and number of bins required:

Location

Collection Frequency

Bin Size

Number of Bins

Fargo VA Annex 474 45th St S, Fargo, ND 58103 Bi-weekly

GSA (Post Office) Building 657 2nd Ave N Fargo, ND 58102

Community Resource & Referral Center 721 1st Ave N.

Fargo, ND 58102

65 Gal. Tote

*Since these numbers are only estimate the contractor is required to provide additional containers as needed. If 65 gal containers are used in lieu of 95 gal containers the number of containers may increase due to the smaller size

2.4 Pick-up of security waste shall be accomplished in accordance with the pick-up schedule listed in paragraph 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3

2.5 When regular delivery I pick up days occur on one of the Federal holidays listed below, the regular delivery I pick up shall automatically shift to the following business days (Monday through Friday). The ten national holidays observed by the Federal Government are:

2.5.1 Any other day specifically declared by the President of the United States to be a national holiday. If a holiday falls on Sunday, the following Monday will be observed as the legal holiday. If a holiday falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday is observed as a legal holiday by U.S. Agencies

2.6 In the event of schedule changes and prior to any changes made to the schedule, the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) will notify the Contracting Officer (CO) in writing of the revised pick up schedule. A revised pick-up schedule will be provided to the contractor in writing along with the contract modification from the CO.

2.6.1 Removed.

2.6.2 The contractor shall empty containers with materials on each visit. In the event the contractor fails to empty a container because they missed it, they will have 48 hours (weekdays) from the time of notification to empty the container.

2.6.3 The contractor shall submit a consolidated Invoice for all locations on a monthly basis.

3. Shredding Specifications

3.1 The Contractor shall provide shredding document destruction services for all secure materials that are collected in locked containers; (administrative papers, sensitive records/ documents). Sensitive records are records that are prohibited from disclosure by statute, including the Privacy Act, or regulation. Information protection, destruction precautions, the documents (paper data), VA 437 information containing social security number, Private Health Information (PHI), Person Identifiable Information (PII) and other information covered by the privacy act shall be destroyed.

3.2 The Contractor will shred all collected material on site via a Contractor provided truck equipped with the appropriate shredding devices approved by COR.

3.3 The Contractor will shred paper material in accordance with VA Directive 6371 Destruction of Temporary Paper Records. This directive requires that final destruction of paper records is pulped, macerated, or shredded to a degree that definitively ensures that they are not readable or re-constructible to any degree.

3.4 If on-site mobile shredding equipment does not shred documents to meet the requirement of final destruction being non readable or non-re-constructible to any degree, and the final destruction is performed away from the VA facility it must be performed by a National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) certified facility. Any intermediary processes must protect the records until final destruction is completed.

3.5 Final destruction of record is the process of destroying temporary paper records to the degree that they are no longer readable or re-constructible to any degree. The Contractor will transport the on-site shredded materials to the Contractor yard in preparation for final destruction. In the yard, the shredded material is comingled and compacted with thousands of pounds of shredded paper. The paper is then compressed at 3,200 pounds per square inch into 2,000-pound bales. The bales are put in a secure trailer and transported to the paper mill where it is checked into a secure, gated facility. At the mill, the paper is placed into a hydro pulper, mixed with water and blended into slurry where the individual fibers are separated. The slurry goes through a series of operations including cleaning, washing, and color stripping where contaminants are removed. The final product is recycled pulp.

3.6 VA 437 staff has the right to view (with no notice) further destruction of the on-site shredded material as performed at the Contactor’s locations at and . (CONTRACTOR PROVIDES INFO HERE).

3.7 Certificate of Destruction: For interim destruction (shredding on-site), a written documentation consisting of an inventory of the amount of paper records collected at the date of service will be provided by the Contractor before departure from each facility site. To account for paper records collected, the Contractor will turn in the shred bin location list which identifies the bins that the Contractor was able to collect for shredding. Additionally, a written documentation (certificate of destruction) shall be provided by the contractor to attest to the completion of the destruction process after the final destruction of VA records has taken place. The certificate of destruction, see below, should come from the facility where final destruction has taken place.

AGREEMENT FOR THE RESPONSIBLE DISPOSAL OF DESTROYED MATERIALS

(Between a Secure Destruction Service and Disposal Agent) The following Secure Destruction Service is NAID® or seeking NAID® Certification and is in possession of destroyed materials as identified below that it must responsibly dispose:

SECURE DESTRUCTION SERVICE FIRM:

Address: _____________________________________________________________________________ Destroyed Materials consisting of: Shredded and Baled Paper The following Disposal Agent accepts the Destroyed Materials and will responsibly dispose of these materials in the method identified below:

DISPOSAL AGENT FIRM: ___________________________________________________________

ADDRESS: ________________________________________________________________________ Final Disposition Method of Materials Received: Re-pulp for Paper Remanufacturing By signature below, the Disposal Agent agrees to the following in accepting the Destroyed Materials from the Secure Destruction Service:

Disposal Agent Representatives Signature:______________________________Date:_____________ Representative’s Printed Name: _______________________________________________________

3.8 VA Handbook 6300.1: “Records Management Procedure” shall be applicable to all record/media destruction. The procedure reads: “The authorized destruction of records that are classified or otherwise restricted from disclosure by statute, such as Privacy Act of 1974 or Title 38 USC, must be witnesses by a Federal employee or a contractor employee. If a contract is used to disposed restricted VA records, the facility Records Officer must authorize the use of a contractor or subcontractor employee to witness the destruction.”

3.9 Incident Notification

3.9.1 The contractor shall notify VA 437’s COR within 24 hours of Contractor’s discovery of any incident which may potentially be a data breach, including a HIPAA Electronic Transactions and Code Sets, Privacy, Security or Standard Identifier Incident, or Use or Disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI), whether secured (PHI which has been destroyed or in the alternative has been rendered unreadable, unusable or undecipherable) or unsecured (PHI) not secured through the use of a technology which renders it unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable, not provided for by this Agreement and promptly provide a report to VA 437 within ten (10) business days of the notification.

4.0 Quality Control

4.1 The contractor shall develop and maintain quality programs to ensure recycling services are performed in accordance with commonly accepted commercial practices and comply with VA 437 requirements. 100% of the containers/ consoles/bins must be emptied and shredded at each location per the schedule provided by the COR. If a container, console/bin is not emptied and shredded, the contractor shall notify the COR, of the reason that a console/bin could not be emptied and shredded. The contractor shall only be invoicing and receive payment for containers/consoles/bins that are 100% emptied.

4.2 The contractor shall develop and implement procedures to identify, prevent, and ensure non- recurrence of defective services.

4.3 As a minimum the contractor shall develop quality control procedures addressing the areas where the Acceptable Quality Level was not met and how corrective action will be taken.

4.1.1 Safety

The contractor shall have in place a documented and comprehensive Health and Safety program to ensure all shredding activities are provided in a safe and secure manor.

4.1.2 Contractor Vehicles

4.1.3 All contractor vehicles utilized in the performance of this contract shall maintain insurance (up to the minimum coverage required by the respective state) and shall maintain current state vehicle registration.

4.1.4 All contractor employees shall possess a valid state driver’s license and have a clean driving record. The contractor or his/her employee’s while performing under this contract shall use no personal vehicles to transport containers to and from the government and contractor site.

4.1.5 The contractor shall ensure that all contractor vehicles utilized for this performance contract are kept in proper working condition. The contractor vehicles shall always be locked and properly secured while at the government site or in route to and from contractor site. Vehicles used in the performance of the contract shall not be left unattended and unlocked at any time while transporting VA 437 security waste.

4.2 Contractor Facilities

4.2.1 All security waste shall be shredded onsite at the VA 437 premises. If onsite shredding is not available due to unforeseen mechanical issues, the confidential material must be transported via locked secured vehicle to an appropriate VA 437 approved Contractor Facility for shredding destruction and recycling.

4.2.2 Prior to beginning performance of the contract, the contractor facility designated to be the destruction site will be inspected by COR and the VA 437’s Privacy Officer and approved in writing by the VA 437 at the contractor facility, and until completion of destruction, the security waste material must be maintained in a secured holding area at all times to prevent any disclosure or unauthorized access.

4.3 Security Waste Collection Containers and Phase-Out for Follow-On Contracts

4.3.1 The size of the containers shall be provided are

4.3.2. The lockable containers shall always be kept locked. The contractor shall provide three sets of keys for each lockable security waste container. One set of keys shall always remain in the possession of the contractor or his employees while at the Contractor’s site. Two sets of keys shall be provided to the VA 437 COR.

4.3.4 On occasion the contractor will also be required to pick-up and dispose of documents that need to be shredded for mass clean-out activities. These documents are typically in record storage boxes that are approximately 14”x14”x20” (WxHxL). The COR will provide the record storage boxes.

4.3.5 In the event the Government awards a follow-on contract to other than the incumbent contractor, the contractor will cooperate to the extent required to allow for an orderly changeover to the successor contractor. This transition shall be as smooth and transparent as possible to ensure no interruption in the services currently being provided.

4.3.6 In the event the Government awards a follow-on contract to other than the incumbent contractor. The incumbent contractor shall schedule a time with the COR to remove containers/consoles/bins throughout the VA 437 facilities at no additional cost to the government.

4.3.7 The contractor shall deliver the required number of lockable security waste containers (Joint Commission compliant) with keys to the VA 437 site specified in the contract within 5 calendar days after contract award and approval of VA 437 security suitability. The confidential waste containers shall be placed at the designated locations directed by the COR or the local VA 437 site point of contact (POC). The VA 437 site POC will be provided to the contractor by the COR. All containers must have a baffle preventing anyone from pulling documents out of the containers.

4.4.8 The contractor shall submit one point of contact for all locations to the COR within 5 days of contract award.

4.6 VA 437 Clearance Requirements

The contractor shall be required to comply with all security requirements of VA 437. All security requirements must be met, and the employees must be cleared prior to the contractor performing work under the contract. Employees that cannot meet the security requirements and clearance requirements will not be allowed to perform work under this contract. Upon contract award, COR will assist awardee to ensure the appropriate type of background investigation and/or fingerprints are initiated, and ultimately completed, on contract personnel in accordance with the contract terms and conditions and the VA/VHA Directive and Handbook 0710 Series. This also includes any required training for contract personnel (e.g. VA Cyber Security Awareness, VHA Privacy Policy, etc.) including Compliance and Business Integrity (CBI) Training.

4.7 HIPAA Compliance – Covered Entities

Under HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, the Contractor providing services under this contract is a “covered entity,” and thus is not required to enter into a Business Associate Agreement with VA. However, the Contractor must observe Public Law 104-191 and all respective regulations implementing this law while providing services under this contract.

4.8 Handling of Records

4.8.1 Information or records accessed and/or created by the Contractor in the course of performing services under this contract are the property of the VA and shall not be accessed, released, transferred, or destroyed except in accordance with applicable federal law, regulations, and/or VA/VHA policy. The Contractor will not copy information contained in VA information systems, either by printing to paper or by copying to another digital format, without the explicit instruction and written approval from of the officials listed in paragraph a., above, except as is necessary to make single copies in the ordinary course of providing patient care. The Contractor will not commingle the data from VA information systems with information from other sources. Contractor shall report any unauthorized disclosure of VA information to the Contracting Officers Representative (COR).

4.8.2 The Logistics Management Service will follow VA 437 procedures to assure VA sensitive information is protected.

4.8.3 The C & A requirements do not apply, and that a Security Accreditation Package is not required.

End Statement of Work

Questions and Answers

Question 1. SOW Paragraph 1.1 and paragraph 3.1.Classified papers are not normally generated at VA medical facilities, and require special shredding as well as a higher security clearance than is used for confidential sensitive personal information such as PHI and PII. Can you please confirm please if there will actually be classified papers presented for shredding?

Answer: There will be no Classified material.

Question 2. Hard bound journals cannot be run through the onsite shredding equipment, please confirm if the binders will be removed prior to being deposited in the shredding bins.

Answer: Binders will be removed.

Question 3. Because of the material, X-rays of any sort will contaminate the load of shredded paper, making it unusable for recycling purposes. This means the load is sent to a landfill, contrary to VA policy. Typically x-rays and media (other than CDs/DVDs) is handled via a purge and paid for by purchase card. Is that a possible solution to how the x-rays can be destroyed? Also, could you please provide the brand name of the x-ray manufacturer so we can confirm that there is no silver in the x-ray film?

Answer: X-rays are not included – removed from SOW.

Question 4. SOW Paragraph 1.2 and 2.1.

The description of the “two consoles” measuring 41”x29”x29” and holding 200 pounds is closer to 64-gallon rolling tote, is this what you are looking for or do you want the standard 36” hard shell with interior bag, stationery consoles?

Answer: standard 36” hard shell with interior bag, stationery consoles Question 5. For all 64-gallon rolling totes, do you want the lid to have the typical deposit slot?

Answer: The slot must not allow for reaching in Question 6. Corrugated cardboard boxes of any size will contaminate a shred load, making it unusable for recycling purposes. This means it must go to landfill, which is contrary to VA policy. Is it possible for the VA to recycle their cardboard in another manner? (Small, thin non-corrugated boxes like tissue boxes are acceptable for onsite shredding.)

Answer: These type boxes will be recycled separately and are not included in this contract.

Question 7. SOW Paragraph 1.5. Thermal labeling tapes and VHS tapes will foul the mobile shredding equipment because it will melt the tape. Can these items be presented separately and taken off-site for destruction?

Answer: Yes Question 8. Normally destructing a small quantity of tape media is handled as a purge and paid for with a purchase card Answer: Tape media will be purged separately from this contract. BUT WE NEED A COLLECTION BIN THAT WE CAN SECURE.

Question 9. SOW Paragraph 1.7, 2.6.1 and 4.3.1. Will purges, additional services and special projects be handled via modification to the contract?

Answer: Purges and special projects will be handled separately from the contract. If additional services are required a modification will be issued.

Question 10. SOW paragraph 2.1-2.3 and 4.3.1. Will any additional containers needed over the course of the contract be handled via contract modification? Also, please confirm that there are no current requirements for 95-gallon containers.

Answer: Changes to container numbers will be done by modification to the contract. There is no current for 95-gallon containers.

Question 11. SOW paragraph 2.6.2. Please confirm that this is a firm-fixed contract where every container is to be serviced at each visit.

Answer: This is a Fixed Price contract. Containers containing material must be emptied each visit.

Question 12. SOW paragraph 3.4. NAID does not certify paper mills or recycling facilities, it certifies mobile and plant-based shredding companies for final destruction of paper – could this be adjusted for accuracy?

Answer: Removed reference to mills and recycling facilities.

Question 13. Please confirm that the prime contractor is required to hold NAID AAA Certification.

Answer: Only NAID certification is needed. AAA is not required.

Question 14. SOW paragraph 3.6. Onsite mobile destruction machinery renders documents to VA Directive 6371 standards of unreadable and non-reconstructible. For security reasons, NAID prohibits opening a shredding truck onsite. Will viewing the shredding via video camera, and a mailed sample of the paper suffice for inspection?

Answer: YES

Question 15. Pulp mills will not issue certificates of destruction for individual offices since the shredded material is already mixed with hundreds of pounds of other shredded material from different offices, then the material is further mixed as it moves through the pulping process. We have executed numerous VA shredding contracts over the years and currently hold 30 such contracts across the country, none of which request a COD from the paper/pulp mill. Since the material is shredded to Directive 6371 standards on site, the COD presented will reflect final destruction. Can this paragraph be amended for these points?

Answer: Amended paragraph in SOW.

Question 16. SOW paragraph 3.9.1 What is “HHS” and does “§ 13402(h)(2) of the HITECH Act” take precedence over VA Directive 6371?

Answer: Revised SOW – removed language in question.

Question 17. SOW paragraph 4.3.1. 65-gallon and 95-gallon containers come with two wheels so they can roll. Is it a requirement that the 95-gallon has 4 wheels rather than the standard two, which will make those containers more expensive?

Answer: 95-gallon containers are not a requirement of the contract.

Question 18. Since this bullet point requirement emphasizes that the 95-gallon can be rolled, is it anticipated that VA employees will be moving containers from their set locations? If they are not in a specified location, it will take longer to service a building because the driver has to hunt for containers and cannot accurately check each container off his list.

Answer: See Previous question.

Question 19. SOW paragraph 4.3.4. Where should pricing for purges be entered, or will these be handled by contract modification? Please note that the boxes themselves must be disposed of by the VA.

Answer: Purges will be separate from this contract and handled on an individual basis.

Question 20. SOW paragraph 4.3.7. It will be nearly impossible for containers to be ordered, shipped and deployed within 5 days of contract award. The typical time to accomplish this is 2 weeks, and with covid-19 impacting manufacturing and some of the required containers sharing parts with hospital carts, we have seen a delay this year and it is unpredictable from month to month what the impact of covid-19 will be. Could this timing be changed to at least 2-weeks?

Answer: Adequate time will be given for the Contractor to set up for the service to begin on the start date of the contract.

Question 21. “Joint Commission Compliant” can you specify which section you are referencing for compliance, and if it is part of the Life Safety Code and/or FM Approval 6921?

Answer: Reference to Joint Commission Compliant wording is removed from SOW.

Question 22. Price Schedule. Please confirm that the price schedule in Modification 1 is what we should use for pricing.

Answer: Confirmed Question 23. For the larger locations, how far apart are the buildings where service is needed?

Answer: Fargo Campus is approximately 1.5 city blocks in area.

Question 24. For all locations, will any bins be located above/below the ground floor? If so, are freight elevators available to move bins to/from ground level? If there is a loading dock, is there a ramp to the ground?

Answer: Freight elevators are available. Loading dock does not have ramp that goes to the ground Question 25. Is there sufficient parking for our truck at each location/building for the time it will take to retrieve containers, shred the contents and return the containers?

Answer: Yes