SOURCES SOUGHT
S -- Integrated Pest Control Services VA Eastern Oklahoma Health Care System Muskogee OK 74401
- Notice Date
- 7/9/2020 10:19:02 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 561710
— Exterminating and Pest Control Services
- Contracting Office
- NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 19 (36C259) Greenwood Village CO 80111 USA
- ZIP Code
- 80111
- Solicitation Number
- 36C25920Q0365
- Response Due
- 7/15/2020 3:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 10/13/2020
- Point of Contact
- Lance Davis, Contracting Officer, Phone: 918-577-3838
- E-Mail Address
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Lance.Davis2@va.gov
(Lance.Davis2@va.gov)
- Awardee
- null
- Description
- Integrated Pest Management Services VA Eastern Oklahoma Health Care System VA Medical Center Muskogee, OK. 74401 BRIEF SCOPE OF WORK (This is for information only) Integrated Pest Management Services for two locations in accordance with the terms and conditions stated within this abbreviated Performance Work Statement (PWS). This is a Request for Information (RFI) Only for Market Research purposes, no Award will be made from this Sources Sought/RFI (Request for Information). The subsequent Contract will be a Base with Four possible Option Year(s) Contract. A. GENERAL: The Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System (EOVAHCS) requires an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Plan, additional requirements have been developed and are addressed in this expanded Statement of Work. The contractor shall provide all management, laboratory testing, tools, supplies, equipment, transportation, and labor to develop and implement an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan for all buildings and grounds at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center main campus and our Earnest Childers location listed below. All services should be completed in a manner that ensures the health and general well-being of patients, staff, and visitors. Contractor will perform regular scheduled inspections and treatment as well as on demand services. All infestations will be addressed until complete elimination of pests. The contractor shall perform in strict accordance with all terms, conditions, provisions, specifications, and schedules of this solicitation and any resulting contract. PLACES OF PERFORMANCE Jack C. Montgomery VA Center 1011 Honor Heights Drive Muskogee, Ok 74401 Ernest Childers VA Outpatient Clinic / Tulsa 9322 E. 41st St. Tulsa, OK 74145 WORK HOURS: Normal Work Hours: The service schedule will be developed between the contractor and Contractor s Representative (COR) prior to any service being performed. Normal business hours: 8am to 430pm, Monday through Friday. Some contract work may require work to be performed after normal business hours and weekends. 3. National Holidays: The ten holidays observed by the Federal Government are: New Year s Day, Martin Luther King s Birthday, President s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran s Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day and any other day specifically declared by the President of the United States to be a national holiday. TASKS: 1. The contractor shall conform to all federal, state, and local regulations governing examining and licensing of pest control operators, performance of pest control, use of approved pest control chemicals and equipment, and proper disposal methods for all products/containers, which may be in effect for the area where the work under the contract will be performed. The IPM plan requires approval by the COR prior to implementation. Contractors IPM plan requires but is not limited to the following tasks: Inspect to determine pest management measures are appropriate and required. Recommend and communicate to the COR environmental sanitation practices that restrict or eliminate food, water or harborage for pests and recommend engineering practices that limit entry of pests. Selection and utilization of non-chemical control methods, which eliminate, exclude or repel pests, i.e. insect electrocution devices, traps, caulking, air screens, etc. The Contractor is responsible to advise the VA of the method required to utilize a non-chemical control of pests. If the method suggested is agreed upon by this medical center, the furnishing and installation of required item would be by the government. However, the government reserves the right to reject contractors recommended method and instruct them to proceed with other methods, as provided by the contract. Collection and disposal of all pests. Selection and use of the most environmentally sound pesticide(s) to affect control when chemical control methods are necessary. Control general structural arthropod pests (i.e., cockroaches, ants, carpet beetles, spiders, carpenter ants, carpenter bees, etc.). Control flying insect pests (i.e., housefly, stable fly, blow flies, etc.). Control predatory pests (i.e., lice, bedbugs, fleas, mites, ticks, bees, wasps, mosquitoes, scorpions, etc.) Control stored product pests (i.e., saw tooth grain beetle, red confused flour beetle, trogderma beetles, grain moths etc.) Control mice and rats (i.e., house mouse, field mouse, roof rat, Norway rats, etc.) Control pest birds (i.e., pigeons, sparrows, blackbirds, etc.) Control other vertebrate pests (i.e., bats, squirrels, gophers, moles, skunks, snakes, rabbits, raccoons, etc.). Control wood destroying organisms (i.e., subterranean termites, dry wood termites, fungi, wood boring beetles, etc.). Control aquatic pests (i.e., mosquito larva/pupae, algae etc.). Control drain flies; The contractor will make appropriate measures to mitigate sewer drain flies. Measures can include periodic foam treatment, drain pipe cleaning, or other measures recommended by the contractor and approved by the COR. SPECIAL PROVISIONS: A. Food Handling Areas: Treatment of these areas is limited to times when food is not being held, processed, prepared, and serviced. B. Patient Occupied Areas: Contractor shall use pesticides with as low a volatility and odor as possible to keep odors from disturbing patients. C. The Contractor shall submit a list of pesticides for intended use in areas listed for approval by the COR/Supervisor, Environmental Management, prior to any applications. The planned use of pesticides in these areas requires recognition of the attendant hazards to occupants, supplies equipment, and surfaces. No substitution can be made without approval from the COR/Supervisor, Environmental Management. D. Critical Areas are defined as: Pharmacy, Sterile Processing Rooms, Operating Rooms, Respiratory Care Units, Intensive Care Units, and Food Production/Storage areas. Space treatment of these areas shall be done using gel-based pesticide or an Ultra-Low Volume method with approved equipment capable of delivering particle size range of .5 to 15 microns. E. Contractor will put in place an exterior rodent bait/trap system by the food intake doors, loading docks and trash dumpsters where required. F. Contractor shall furnish and maintain flying insect traps/controls by the following doors: Loading Dock doors, Ground floor stairwell entrances, Patient dining room and Patient recreation rooms. This maintenance will include replacing glue boards, monitoring the insects trapped and replacement bulbs, per manufacture recommendation. Placement and power connections must be approved through COR. Additional locations to be determined on a as needed basis. G. Bed Bug Services: The Contractor shall provide services that identify, detect and eradicate Bed Bugs. The Contractor shall be able to provide the following service to address the presence of bed bugs or address the possible infestation of bed bugs within the facility: Fumigation services Heat treatment Cryonite systems Canine detection Locations of performance Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System (EOVAHCS) 1011 Honor Heights Drive, Muskogee, Ok 74401 9322 E. 41st St., Tulsa, OK 74145 IMPORTANTR NOTE: This RFI (Request for Information) is for information only; no award will be made from this RFI. Please communicate via e-mail to lance.davis2@va.gov by COB 07/15/2020 as to your company s ability to perform service per this brief Scope of Work. If interested please provide the following: Please state your company s business size Please provide DUNS number If you have a FSS/GSA contract that includes this service Provide FSS/GSA contract number if applicable
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- Place of Performance
- Address: VA Eastern Oklahoma Health Care System 1011 Honor Heights Drive, Muskogee, OK 74401, USA
- Zip Code: 74401
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 74401
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