Pharmaceutical Waste Identification and Collection Northern Indiana Health Care System

VA Northern Indiana Health Care System (VANIHCS) will be soliciting offers for pharmaceutical waste identification and collection services. Contractor shall provide pharmaceutical waste identification and collection services include RCRA formulary characterization, RCRA hazardous and/or bulk chemotherapy and mixed infectious hazardous waste for campuses of VANIHCS located in Fort Wayne and Marion, Indiana. Request for Quote (VA-251-15-Q-0525) will be issued on or around August 22, 2015. Anticipated award date is October 1, 2015 for a period of one year with four one-year option periods to be exercised at the discretion of the government. No telephone requests will be honored. The government is not responsible to make available paper copies. Questions must be submitted in writing to the contracting officer. If contractors submit questions, they are strongly encouraged to do so within seven calendar days after the issuance of the solicitation or three calendar days after the pre-proposal site visit. Verbal questions will not be addressed. All responses to questions which may affect offers will be incorporated into a written amendment to the solicitation. Offerors are encouraged and are responsible for routinely checking the web site for any solicitation amendments that may be issued throughout the bid period. No individual notification of amendments will be provided. Offer due date and time will be included in the solicitation document. This is 100% set-aside for Small Business. The NAICS code for this requirement is 562112. The size standard is $38.5 million.