Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide contingency laundry services for the Hershel "Woody" Williams VA Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia. The contractor will be responsible for providing laundry services during emergencies and/or times of equipment repair. The contract will be a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a 5-year period of performance. The contractor will be paid on a monthly basis in arrears when services are used, based on the clean weight of laundered textiles.
Some key responsibilities of the contractor include:
* Providing all equipment, materials, labor, supplies, and supervision to properly clean the soiled linen
* Ensuring that employees are properly supervised and trained in laundering procedures
* Performing all services in accordance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Association of Institutional Laundry Managers (ALM)
* Reporting any damage to government linen caused by contractor personnel to the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR)
* Providing pickup and transportation of laundry textiles to the contractor's laundering facility
* Weighing each linen cart as it is received and storing linen carts until picked back up by the government
* Cleaning, drying, ironing, folding, and covering the textiles prior to placing them in the linen carts for pickup
* Packaging the linen in the same linen cart it was processed out of
* Weighing linen carts with government present to verify the clean weight being returned