Sterile Compounding Services

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 seeks testing and certification services for sterile compounding facilities at the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital Pharmacy Service, with proposals due November 4, 2026. This is a 100 percent Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside.

Place of performance is San Antonio, Texas. The contractor must provide all labor, equipment, and documentation to perform semi-annual Primary and Secondary Engineering Controls certification including biological safety cabinet and laminar airflow workstation testing, viable and non-viable environmental sampling, hazardous drug residue sampling, and personnel qualification assessments using media fill testing and gloved fingertip sampling. All contractor personnel performing testing must be CETA National Board of Testing certified technicians or NSF/ANSI 49 accredited biosafety cabinet field certifiers, and the contractor must hold current ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for environmental microbiology laboratory analysis. The contractor must be registered with CETA as a Registered Certified Professional for Sterile Compounding Facilities and demonstrate facility and personnel testing experience from at least two separate state or federal government medical facility contracts within the last five years. Testing shall comply with CETA CAG-003-2026 standards.

The contract is firm-fixed unit pricing with a base 12-month performance period from January 11, 2027 through January 10, 2028, followed by four optional 12-month periods. Estimated annual scope includes approximately two hazardous compounding segregated compounding areas, four biosafety cabinets, five laminar airflow workstations tested twice annually, 84 monthly viable samples across seven units, six hazardous drug residue samples semi-annually, and 160 personnel qualifications. Reports must be submitted within 14 days of certification completion or sampling collection. The NAICS code is 541380, Testing Laboratories and Services; PSC is Q301, Reference Laboratory Testing. Evaluation awards to the responsible offeror whose offer provides best value, based on three factors: Technical Capability, Past Performance, and Price. Offerors must be registered in SAM and certified as SDVOSB in the SBA certification database at offer submission.