Healthcare Environmental Cleaning   3

The Defense Health Agency (DHA, Agency, or Government) supports the delivery of integrated, cost effective, and high quality health services to military beneficiaries of the Military Health System (MHS). Patient care services are provided in a variety of settings within the MHS, including military clinics, hospitals, and medical centers, which are collectively referred to as Medical Treatment Facilities (MTFs). The DHA Enterprise requires highly specialized Healthcare Environmental Cleaning (HEC) services, conforming to the highest standards of quality and complying strictly with all applicable certification requirements and with rigorous and exacting medical industry standards for maintaining an aseptic space for the administration of healthcare ranging from clinical to surgical. The Federal Procurement Data System Product and Service Code (PSC) for such specialized, aseptic ?Healthcare Environmental Cleaning? services is PSC Code Q901. An ability to meet run-of-the-mill ?janitorial? or ?custodial? services standards, PSC Code S201, would not be sufficient to satisfy the complex, extensive, and in most cases mission-essential requirements of the DHA Enterprise HEC.This Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity, Multiple Award Contracts (IDIQ MAC) shall serve as vehicles to procure HEC services for any Department of Defense (DoD) Military Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) located in the United States and outlying areas. The services to be acquired are Q901 ? Healthcare Environmental Cleaning. The Government defines HEC services as, ?cleanliness, disinfection and aesthetic maintenance of public and patient care spaces within DoD MTFs?. The Contractor is responsible for the performance of the entire scope of HEC operations including management activities such as planning, scheduling, cost accounting, report preparation and submission, establishing and maintaining records, quality control and performance management. The regulations, commercial standards and advisory recommendations cited in Part 7 of this performance work statement (PWS) are requirements for this effort. The Contractor shall provide all tools, labor, materials, vehicles, training, equipment and supplies required to recruit, qualify, place and retain an adequate workforce to perform cleaning and disinfecting activities within timeliness, completion and efficacy performance standards; collect trash, recyclable materials and regulated medical waste; remove soiled linens and distribute/restock linen supplies as well as other related HEC services in accordance with (IAW) Part 5 of the contract unless listed by exception in Part 3, Government Furnished Equipment (GFE), Items and Services.

Background
The solicitation is for Healthcare Environmental Cleaning services. The amendment removes language added by the previous Amendment 0008 and incorporates revised Government responses to Question-and-Answer exchanges into the Solicitation. An updated Question and Answer document has been uploaded within Amendment 0009.

Work Details
The contract requires the provision of Transportation Support Services as per the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS) dated May 11, 2023. The Contractor is expected to meet all the requirements outlined in the PWS, other attached documents, and all other requirements listed in the document. The period of performance is from August 14, 2023, to August 18, 2023.

Period of Performance
August 14, 2023, to August 18, 2023

Place of Performance
Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA HQ), Brooke Zitney, 201 12th Street, South 107, Arlington VA 22202