Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide SPS instrument repair and maintenance services to the St. Cloud VA Health Care System. The contract will be a firm-fixed-price service contract for a base period of one year, with four option years. The contractor will be responsible for providing onsite services related to preventative maintenance for reusable medical devices and genesis containers used in the operating room and clinical procedures. This includes repair, sharpening, refurbishment, and assessment for replacement. The contractor must be ISO-9001 certified or moving towards certification and have a minimum of 5 years' experience providing these services to hospitals or major medical centers.
Key aspects of the job include:
• Providing preventative maintenance and repair services for surgical instruments and procedural instrumentation trays
• Ensuring all instruments are maintained in proper operating conditions as specified by the original manufacturer
• Providing a one-time inventory of all surgical and clinical instruments within Sterile Processing Services (SPS) at the beginning of the contract
• Performing monthly on-site PMs of surgical sets and individual instrument refurbishment, repairs, and assessment for replacement
• Providing on-site in-service and education annually
• Ensuring all instruments are handled with care and returned in as good as new condition
• Testing instruments for accurate alignment, sharpness, insulation, and calibration per manufacturer's instructions for use
• Maintaining all records created for Government use or delivered to the Government in accordance with Federal law.