Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide gel packs to keep medications at required temperatures during shipment to Veteran patients. The contractor shall provide 42,800 cases of gel packs to the Tucson CMOP in Tucson, AZ, in accordance with the provided technical requirements. The gel packs must meet specific dimensions, weight, and delivery requirements. Deliveries will be made weekly frozen by the truckload from April 1st to October 31st and daily ambient in bundles of 100 cases from November 1st to March 31st.
* The gel packs shall not exceed specific dimensions: length between 6 7/8 in. and 7 in., width between 5.3 in. and 5.5 in., and weight between 11.8 oz. and 12.2 oz.
* The gel packs will be placed in four even stacks of twelve separated by a cardboard divider to help ensure that the gel packs freeze flat.
* The gel packs shall be delivered to the Department of Veterans Affairs, CMOP Tucson, at 3675 Britannia Drive, Tucson, AZ 87506-5041.
* The contractor must be able to adjust delivery of gel packs based on operating conditions beyond their control and provide emergency requests for delivery of frozen gel packs if needed.