Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide pharmacy compounding and hood testing and certification services. The contractor will be responsible for testing and certifying the pharmacy compounding area, including the buffer and ante rooms, and providing hood certification for the laminar flow hood and bio-safety hoods. The services will be performed in accordance with the Controlled Environment Testing Association (CETA) standards, and the contractor must have current CETA certification. The contract will require the contractor to provide technical support by phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays. The key tasks include airflow testing, airflow measurements, airflow balancing, room airflow exchange rate calculations, and leak testing of room termination HEPA filters.
Some of the key requirements include:
• Providing all personnel, labor, technical support, and equipment for testing and certification
• Ensuring the HVAC system is adjusted to provide the code required Air Changes Per Hour (ACPH) in each space
• Providing a Pharmacy Compounding area Certification report
• Providing Hood Certification for the Laminar Flow Hood and NuAire Bio-Safety Hoods
• Providing technical support by phone as needed 24 hours per day, seven days per week, including holidays