R602--NEW-SPS Courier Services | Base plus 4 options Sterile Processing Equipment

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration is soliciting courier services to transport contaminated medical instruments and equipment for reprocessing from multiple VA outpatient clinics and medical centers throughout Northern California to designated Sterile Processing Service (SPS) processing locations. The contractor must establish and maintain four defined courier routes (Sacramento Valley, East Bay, Shasta Butte, and Southern Tier) while accommodating approximately one monthly as-needed trip, with service delivery required within four hours of pickup. Key qualifications include valid California driver's licenses, biohazardous material handling certifications, bloodborne pathogen training, HIPAA training, and current health clearances (negative PPD testing and rubella immunization). Personnel must maintain workers' compensation and professional liability insurance, comply with federal privacy and infection control regulations, and provide all transportation equipment and biohazard containment materials. The solicitation was originally due February 10, 2026, but has been extended to March 12, 2026, at 10:00 AM PDT following a filed agency-level protest; questions were due by February 2, 2026.

This solicitation is exclusively set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) certified by the Small Business Administration, with no incumbent contractor information provided in available documents. The contract encompasses a one-year base period (April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2027) with four one-year option periods, requiring approximately 5.0 Full-Time Equivalents (10,400 hours annually) to support eleven VA locations including facilities in Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, Redding, Yreka, Chico, Martinez, Fairfield, McClellan, Mare Island, and Yuba City. Services are limited to regular business hours (8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays), with invoices submitted monthly in arrears through electronic submission. The place of performance is primarily Mather, California, where the primary Sterile Processing Service Department is located, with multiple pickup and delivery stops across Northern California's VA facilities. Prevailing wage determinations apply across multiple California counties (Alameda, Butte, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Yolo, San Joaquin, Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, and Yuba), with Service Contract Labor Standards requirements governing all contractor personnel compensation and fringe benefits.