Attachment B - Specifications - Pages 1-4.pdf

Attachment B - Specifications *Rebid* Emergency Contingency Statewide Contract

Infectious Medical Waste Disposal for LDH Regions 1-9 RFx# 3000023167

VENDOR REQUIREMENTS:

Successful vendor(s) must be able to provide order placement and pickup/delivery operations 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including weekends and holidays, as needed during a declared emergency.

Bid prices must be inclusive of all charges needed to complete the service. Bid prices should include the cost of the supplies needed for collection (i.e. boxes, sharps containers (sizes quart to gallon), liners, and labels) and all costs associated with the pick-up and disposal of the infectious medical waste (i.e. labor, transportation charges, etc.).

Successful vendor(s) must provide:

1) Personnel that shall be properly identified and in proper protective clothing for the removal of all infectious medical waste.

2) Personnel that shall ensure proper manifesting and documentation prior to shipment of infectious/hazardous medical waste.

3) Complete destruction of infectious medical waste at an approved disposal facility.

4) One time pick-up and weekly pick-ups or additional pick-ups, as required by the shelter.

The shelter will provide 24 hour advance notice for additional pick-ups.

The successful vendor(s) shall be required to maintain, and/or have available for their own use, an inventory sufficient to start deliveries of orders for boxes/containers/liners and labels within 24 hours After Receipt of Order (ARO) and begin pickups of infectious medical waste within 48 hours ARO. All deliveries shall be F.O.B. destination.

Initial pick-up of infectious medical waste from the shelter/site is to occur no later than 48 hours ARO.

Successful vendor(s) must be knowledgeable of and adhere to all State of Louisiana, Federal, and Local laws and current La. Department of Health regulations that pertain to infectious medical waste disposal.

Successful vendor(s) must hold a current permit as an infectious waste transporter by the Louisiana Department of Health.

Please provide your permit number: _______________________________

If requested, a copy of your permit must be furnished within five business days after request.

All infectious medical waste shall be transported to an approved destruction facility. If the facility is in Louisiana, it must be an infectious waste storage/treatment facility permitted by the La. Department of Health. If the facility is out of state, it must have approval of the appropriate State Agencies.

Attachment B - Specifications RFx # 3000023167

Please furnish the name and address of the destruction facility and permit number:

If your main destruction facility is rendered inoperable, do you have an alternate site?

______ YES _________NO

List alternate location name, address, and permit number:

MEDICAL WASTE PACKAGING MATERIALS:

Packaging material for transportation shall include 18” x 18” x 24” (approximate size), 200lb test, corrugated boxes with plastic liner of sufficient strength and thickness to prevent rupturing or leakage under normal handling conditions. All sharps containers, boxes and liners must be appropriately labeled for contents. Labels must be water resistant. If re-usable containers are used, the successful vendor(s) shall be responsible for cleaning the containers prior to their return to the shelter/site.

All infectious medical waste shall be properly identified and manifested at the shelter/site by an employee of the State and an employee of the vendor prior to its removal. When the waste is received and destroyed, the manifest is to be signed by the operator at the destruction facility, and a copy is to be immediately sent to the Office of Public Health’s Bureau of Community Preparedness (see below), thus providing “Proof of Destruction”.

“Proof of Destruction” should be sent by mail to the Office of Public Health, Bureau of Community Preparedness, 8453 Veterans Memorial Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70807 or by fax to (225) 354-3506.

LIST OF LDH’S SPECIAL NEEDS SHELTERS/SITES

(FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY)

**Note: LDH reserves the right to add or delete special needs shelters/sites from this list as deemed necessary.

Sites are subject to change due to building availability at the time of an emergency.

Region 1 Region 5 Region 8 (cont.)

New Orleans, LA area Calcasieu Parish Lincoln Parish

Capacity: 150 Capacity: 200 Region 2 McNeese State University Grambling State University East Baton Rouge Parish Recreation Complex Grambling Intramural Capacity: 300 Lake Charles, LA 70609 Sports Center LSU/P-MAC 100 Central Street LSU Campus Region 6 Grambling, LA 71245 North Stadium Drive Rapides Parish Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Capacity: 1000 Region 9

New State Shelter Tangipahoa Parish Capacity: 500 8125 Hwy 71 South Capacity: 200 Field House Alexandria, LA 71302 Southeastern LA University LSU Campus Kinesiology Building Cypress Drive Capacity: 300 400 Tennessee Ave.

Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Riverfront Convention Center Hammond, LA 70402

707 Main Street Region 3 Alexandria, LA 71301 Lafourche Parish Capacity: 300 Region 7 Additional Pick-up Nicholls State University Bossier Parish Site:

200 Ardoyne Road Capacity: 200 Region 2 Thibodaux, LA 70301 Bossier Civic Center East Baton Rouge

620 Benton Road Parish Assumption Parish Bossier City, LA 71111 LDH Warehouse Capacity: 80 1502 North 17th Street Assumption Community Center Region 8 Baton Rouge, LA 4910 Hwy 308 Ouachita Parish 70803 Napoleonville, LA 70390 Capacity: 150

University of LA at Monroe Region 4 Ewing Coliseum Lafayette Parish 4201 Bon Aire & NE Drive Capacity: 300 Monroe, LA 71209 Heymann Center 1373 S. College Drive Lafayette, LA 70503

LDH REGIONS FOR CONTRACTS BY PARISH (COUNTY):

Region 1 -- Orleans Region 6 -- Rapides Jefferson Vernon St Bernard Avoyelles Plaquemines Concordia

Catahoula Region 2 -- East Baton Rouge LaSalle

West Baton Rouge Grant East Feliciana Winn West Feliciana Pointe Coupee Region 7 -- Bossier Ascension Caddo Iberville DeSoto

Sabine Region 3 -- Assumption Natchitoches

Lafourche Red River St Charles Bienville St James Webster St John the Baptist Claiborne St Mary Terrebonne Region 8 -- Lincoln

Jackson Region 4 -- Acadia Caldwell

Evangeline Union Iberia Ouachita Lafayette Morehouse St Landry East Carroll St Martin West Carroll Vermilion Richland

Franklin Region 5 -- Allen Madison

Beauregard Tensas Calcasieu Cameron Region 9 -- St Tammany Jefferson Davis St Helena

Tangipahoa Washington Livingston

When bidding on each line item, be sure to state the specific region(s) that can be serviced by your company.