Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide cleanroom testing services, including surface and air sampling, gloved fingertip testing, and media fill testing, at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. The contractor must be an ISO/TEC 17025 accredited laboratory under the Environmental Microbiology Lab Accreditation Program (EMLAP) and have the necessary federal, state, and local licenses. The contract has a base period of 12 months, with the possibility of extension up to 4 additional years through option years. The contractor will be required to provide test results within one business day of final analysis, and the results will be used to evaluate the cleanliness of the medical center's sterile compounding areas. Key services include:
• Bacteria and fungi surface incubation and sample analysis
• Bacteria and fungi air incubation and sample analysis
• Gloved fingertip and thumb sample incubation and sample analysis
• Media fill testing sample incubation and sample analysis
The contractor must also provide identification to at least the genus level, and when possible, to the species of any microorganism recovered.