Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs, New York Harbor Health Care System is seeking removal services of Regulated Medical Waste (RMW), Pharmaceuticals, and Disposable and Reusable Sharps Exchange Services for 12 months for each of its 3 campuses and associated Outpatient Clinics. The contractor shall provide all labor and materials necessary for the collection and removal of Regulated Medical Waste (RMW) containers, Trace-Chemotherapeutic Waste, Pathological Waste, Pharmaceutical Waste, and Reusable Sharps Container Exchange services. Key aspects of the job include:
• Providing appropriate containers, shipping papers, pick-up, transportation, processing, and tracking of regulated medical waste, trace-chemotherapeutic waste, pathological waste, and reusable sharps containers.
• Ensuring provided containers are leak-proof, stackable, lidded, display the biohazard symbol, and carry all other US DOT and state required markings to ensure compliance with all transportation requirements.
• Removing full containers and replacing them with an equal number of empty, sanitized containers.
• Transporting the waste to the treatment facility for autoclaving, incineration, or other means in accordance with all applicable Federal, State, and Local requirements.
• Providing reusable sharps disposal containers for syringes, needles, scalpel blades, and glassware used in the diagnosis of patients.
• Ensuring all personnel entering any facility locations and performing duties or services under this section must be current employees of the contractor or its subcontractor, must obtain VA-issued identification, and must be trained in the collection, packaging, and transporting of Regulated Medical Waste and Sharps in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws.
• Submitting a monthly sharps report with collection information, including the quantity of containers, sharps disposal weight, and total plastic diverted.
• Providing annual training to government staff as required by the COR, including general awareness, function-specific, safety, security awareness, bloodborne pathogens, universal precautions, and personal protective equipment.