Medical Physicist Services

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 16, is soliciting proposals for Medical Physicist Services to provide qualified diagnostic medical physicists to evaluate and perform quality assurance testing on all imaging equipment at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. The contractor must provide certified diagnostic medical physicists holding American Board of Radiology certification in Diagnostic Medical Physics or Medical Nuclear Physics to conduct annual inspections, equipment evaluations, and quality assurance testing on 72 imaging devices including CT units, MRI systems, gamma cameras, x-ray equipment, fluoroscopy systems, and computed radiography readers. Key requirements include providing written inspection reports within five working days identifying devices by serial number and functional parameters, generating entrance exposure charts, reviewing CT dose optimization, performing post-repair and post-installation evaluations, and completing structural shielding designs in accordance with VHA Directive 1105.04. The solicitation provides detailed specifications in the Performance Work Statement (PWS), and contractor personnel must be certified within ten calendar days of award notification. The deadline for proposal submission is March 18, 2026, with questions due by March 16, 2026.

This contract opportunity is set aside exclusively for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs), requiring all offerors to maintain active SAM registration and current SBA certification at both offer and award. The base contract performance period runs from April 1, 2026 through September 30, 2026, with four optional one-year extensions available through September 30, 2030, for a potential five-year contract term. All work must be performed during normal business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal Holidays) at the Jackson, Mississippi facility, with contractors responsible for providing all personnel, management, supervision, labor, tools, materials, and transportation. The pricing structure includes 13 line items covering specific evaluation services such as dental x-ray biennial evaluations (19 units), CT annual evaluations (4 units), x-ray annual evaluations (25 units), gamma camera evaluations (3 units), MRI evaluations (2 units), and shielding design surveys, with invoices to be submitted quarterly in arrears via electronic submission.