Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide maintenance services for nucleic acid processors and analyzers at the Iowa City VA Healthcare System. The contractor will be required to provide all parts, labor, and expertise necessary to maintain the equipment, including annual preventative maintenance, repairs, and replacements. The contractor must also respond to service calls within 48 hours and provide thorough testing and documentation after completing any work. The equipment to be maintained includes Qiagen EZ1 Advanced XL Nucleic Acid Processors and QIAcube Connect MDx units.
• The contractor must adhere to all VA policies, standard operating procedures, and applicable laws and regulations.
• The contractor must maintain all records created for government use and deliver them to the government upon completion of the contract.
• The contractor must not create or maintain any records containing non-public VA information that are not specifically tied to or authorized by the contract.
• The contractor must not retain, use, sell, or disseminate copies of any deliverable that contains information covered by the Privacy Act of 1974 or that is generally protected from public disclosure by an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act.