Regulated medical waste - presolicitation notice

The expected Release of the Solicitation for the DHA Enterprise Regulated Medical Waste Request for Proposal (RFP) has been extended to July 2020.

The Health Readiness Contracting Office (HRCO), Joint Base San Antonio Fort Sam Houston, Texas has a requirement to provide pick-up, treatment, and disposal Regulated Medical Waste (RMW) services in support of the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The supported DHA facilities includes DHA medical treatment facilities (MTFs), United States (U.S.) Military Entrance Processing Commands (USMEPCOM), Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) facilities, and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) throughout the 50 United States and Guam and Puerto Rico. The Contractor will be required to collect, transport, store and dispose of RMW, to include Department of Transportation (DOT) Category A infectious substances (i.e. Ebola virus, Hantaviruses causing hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, etc.), in accordance with all Federal, State, and local laws and regulations to include the processing of chemotherapy trace waste and pathological waste. The Contractor shall furnish all labor, supervision, management, transportation, equipment, materials, certification, and training, except as specified as Government furnished, required to perform these services. The anticipated contract will have a 5-year ordering period from date of award. Solicitation W81K04-20-R-0020 will be made available within the next 60 days, on or about 29 May 20 and will be distributed solely through the Beta.Sam.Gov at https://beta.sam.gov/. Hard copies of the solicitation will not be available. All future information concerning this acquisition, including solicitation amendments, will be distributed solely through the Beta.Sam.Gov website. Interested parties are responsible for monitoring this website to ensure that they have the most up-to-date information about this acquisition. All contractors doing business with the Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database. The website for registration is https://www.sam.gov/SAM/. The points of contact for this requirement are Haley Hogue, Contract Specialist, haley.a.hogue.civ@mail.mil and Clifton Wells, Contracting Officer, Clifton.m.wells.civ@mail.mil.