S222--New: 5-Year Ordering Period Contract: 01/01/2025-12/31/2029) Hazardous Waste Collection and Removal Services. William S Middleton VA Hospital in Madison, WI and its affiliated CBOCs.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration (VA) is seeking a contractor to provide hazardous waste collection and removal services for the William S. Middleton VA Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin and its affiliated Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs). The solicitation is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract that requires comprehensive hazardous waste management, including inventorying, coding, packaging, labeling, manifesting, transporting, and disposing of various hazardous materials such as pharmaceutical waste, aerosols, corrosive materials, reactive materials, mercury, batteries, and fluorescent bulbs. Interested contractors must provide all necessary personnel, equipment, supplies, and transportation, and possess appropriate permits for waste transportation in Wisconsin and Illinois. The solicitation is unrestricted and uses NAICS code 562112, with quotes due on December 17, 2024 at 12:00 PM CST. A mandatory site visit is scheduled for December 4, 2024 at 11:00 AM, and potential vendors must submit questions by December 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM.

The contract will have a five-year ordering period from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029, with five one-year priced periods and a minimum guarantee of $5,000 and a ceiling of $1,500,000. The current incumbent is Earth Smart Environmental Solutions, LLC (contract 36C25220D0025). Contractors must operate during normal business hours (8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Monday-Friday) and provide containers on a one-for-one replacement basis. The solicitation requires routine monthly pickups at the main facility and non-routine pickups at affiliated CBOCs as needed. The facility's EPA Registry ID is 110001921467, and the contractor must handle various waste types with specific requirements, such as true pharmaceutical waste and sorted batteries. Partial bids will not be accepted, and all fees must be factored into per-pound rates, with large lab pack jobs anticipated to occur 1-2 times annually.