SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Wall-to-Wall VISN Pharmacy Inventory
- Notice Date
- 12/11/2018
- Notice Type
- Synopsis
- NAICS
- 561990
— All Other Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;Network Contracting Office 6;100 Emancipation Drive;Hampton VA 23667
- ZIP Code
- 23667
- Solicitation Number
- 36C24619Q0151
- Archive Date
- 3/20/2019
- Point of Contact
- 757-728-7082
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. This notice does NOT constitute a request for proposal, request for quote, or invitation for bid. No formal solicitation document exists at this time. Market Research is being conducted to Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB), Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Business, 8(a), Woman Owned Small Business, or HUB Zone interests. The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) is trying to determine whether to set-aside an acquisition for Wall-to-Wall Pharmacy Inventory Services, for VISN 6. PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT 1.0. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Per VHA Handbook 1108.08 VHA Formulary Management Process, VA Pharmacies are required to conduct an annual wall to wall inventory that is to be concluded by the end of February. 1.2 The Contractor shall furnish all necessary materials, supplies, equipment, personnel, supervision and travel cost necessary to provide Wall to Wall Pharmacy Inventory Services for the identified facilities in section 2.0 of the Performance Work Statement (PWS). 2.0 FACILITIES VAMC Asheville 1100 Tunnel Rd., Asheville, NC 28805 VAMC Richmond 1201 Broad Rock Rd., Richmond, VA 23249 VAMC Salem 1970 Roanoke Blvd., Salem, VA 24153 VAMC Durham 508 Fulton St., Durham, NC 27705 VAMC Salisbury 1601 Brenner Ave., Salisbury, NC 28144 VAMC Fayetteville 2300 Ramsey St., Fayetteville, NC 28301 VAMC Hampton 100 Emancipation Dr., Hampton, VA 23667 Charlotte HCC 3506 W. Tyvola Rd. Charlotte, NC 28208 Kernersville HCC 1695 Kernersville Medical Pkwy., Kernersville, NC 27284 Wilmington HCC 1705 Gardner Rd., Wilmington, NC 28405 Greenville CBOC 401 Moye Blvd., Greenville, NC 27834 Fayetteville HCC 7300 S Raeford Rd., Fayetteville, NC 28304 3.0. COORDINATION 3.1 The contractor points of contact, the VA Contracting Officer s Representatives (CORs) and the Pharmacy Point of Contacts (POCs) shall be identified at time of award. 3.2 The contractor will coordinate the inventory time and date with the VA pharmacy POCs and will submit a schedule to the CORs for approval. VAMC Asheville, NC VAMC Richmond, VA VAMC Salem, VA VAMC Durham, NC VAMC Salisbury, NC VAMC Fayetteville, NC VAMC Hampton, VA HCC Charlotte, NC HCC Kernersville, NC HCC Wilmington, NC HCC Greenville, NC HCC Fayetteville, NC 3.3 A full background check is not required for this position; however, all contract employees must bring photo identification and comply with check-in procedures at each facility. A picture ID/name badge shall be worn while present on VA grounds. 3.4 Before starting the inventory, each VA pharmacy POC and the contractor appointed supervisor will walk throughout the pharmacy, where it is broken down into physical locations that are agreed upon by both the VA pharmacy manager/director and appointed contractor inventory crew supervisor. The VA pharmacy POC must indicate all the items that should be and should NOT be inventoried, such as in-house supplies. 3.5 The contractor inventory crew supervisor and the crew member shall walk through each section together prior to and upon completion of the inventory to make sure there is nothing in question. 4.0 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 4.1 The contractor will be provided the prime vendors (McKesson, Inc.) pricing data by the respective facility so the data can be included within the required reports. 4.2 The contractor crew members shall collect the name of the medication, strength, size, form, manufacturer, and quantity. Items shall be given an actual piece count; except partial bottles and repackaged meds, which are given an appropriate fraction. 4.3 Any items that are expired, obsolete, or not useable are not included in the count, unless otherwise specified by the VA pharmacy manager/director. 4.4 Any incidental breach of patient privacy or information security, the contractor will need to report with an hour to his/her Supervisor, VA Privacy Officer or VA Information Security Officer. 5.0 ITEMS TO BE COUNTED 5.1 Items in the Inpatient Pharmacies automated machines. 5.2 Items in the Outpatient Pharmacies Baker APS machines (Baker cells Optifill, ScriptPro, Autoscript II, etc., robot canisters. 5.3 Bulk Intravenous solutions. 5.4 Prosthetic items in unopened containers with a cost over $100.00. Items in question are located at the Outpatient locations only. 5.5 Opened bottles of medication other than what is used for compounding must be estimated to the nearest tenth (10th) of a bottle. 5.6 Direct buy supplies that are given directly to the patient (catheters, diapers, syringes, etc.). 5.7 Unit dose PRE-PACKED items (these are individual doses or small strip-packages of individual doses). 5.8 Direct buy products (drug and supplies) are only counted if the value of the drug on the shelf is greater than $100 (so one bottle of drug that costs $50 from specialty company is not counted). 6.0 ITEMS NOT COUNTED 6.1 Items in the Emergency Pharmaceutical Cache. 6.2 Supplies used in the pharmacy (bottles, labels, syringes used to make IV bags, etc.). 6.3 Drugs and supplies that have been placed in automated equipment on the units, wards, CBOCs (e.g. in an Omnicell). CBOC inventories are only counted if the pharmacy there is one with a separate McKesson account number and with a pharmacist manning it with deliveries directly to that site. 6.4 Ward stock 6.5 Controlled substances will be counted by the Pharmacy personnel only. However, the contractor will be provided the data by the Pharmacy department so the data can be included within the required reports. 7.0 REPORTING 7.1 A report for each pharmacy inventoried shall be completed no later than seven calendar days after the inventory is completed. Each report shall contain all items inventoried with the following data: Item name (name & strength, i.e., Ativan 1mg/1ml) Package description (ml, bottle, tab) NDC or UPC/UPN Total quantity, current package price, and total replacement cost per item, and total replacement cost of all items. 7.2 The report must be provided in a format that is compatible with or easily transferable to Microsoft Excel (Microsoft office 2007 or 2010 version). The reports shall be on CD or sent as an e-mail attachment to the COR. The NAICS 621511 is applicable to this acquisition; with a size standard of $32.5 M. If your company is interested in performing these services, please notify our office of your intent. In response, please include the following: A positive statement of your intent to submit a quote as a prime contractor (capability statement) If any teaming or subcontracting possibilities are contemplated, please provide subcontractor s name and breakdown of labor and its performance cost Evidence of experience in work similar in type and scope to include contract numbers, project titles, award dollar amounts, points of contact and telephone numbers Past performance references with points of contact and phone numbers Provide FSS/GSA Contract # if applicable Identify whether the firm falls into any of the socioeconomic categories listed above Your response is required by: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by 10:00 AM EST All capable Service Disabled Veteran Small Businesses and Veteran Owned Small Businesses are encouraged to respond. The Government will not pay for any information solicited. All the above must be submitted in sufficient detail via email to: lori.miller@va.gov. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (11-DEC-2018); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT 877-472-3779 or fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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