J--SAN-I-PAK MAINTENANCE

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio is in need of a contractor to provide all labor, equipment, transportation and supervision necessary to provide preventive maintenance inspections (PMI's) and intervening service calls for the Government owned Trash Compactor/Sterilizer Waste Machine, Model Mark VII, MFG: SAN-I-PAK INC; S/N: 7-173092-184-3248-2; NXRN: 36513 and peripherals, located at VA Medical Center, 10701 East Blvd., Engineering Loading Dock, Cleveland, OH 44106. All PMI's shall be performed during normal working hours only. Contractor shall provide all intervening repair service calls. All work performed shall be accomplished by competent employee's qualified to work on the specific equipment and who are certified registered regular dealer of the SAN-I-PAK Systems. Work shall be in accordance with manufacturer's instructions, including but not limited to, adjustments, calibrations, cleaning, lubrication, testing, disassembly, check-out, replacement of work or defective parts, etc., required to keep the equipment in manufacturer's suggested operating condition. Work shall be in accordance with local City, State and Federal regulations, where applicable. Period of performance shall be a base period plus 4 option years. This solicitation is being issued as a 100 percent small business set-aside. The NAICS code for this procurement is 811310 and the size standard is $6.5M. All offerors shall be registered with the CCR database at www.ccr.gov prior to award of any contract. Solicitation packages will be available for download on or about December 15, 2007. Questions may be directed to Mark A. Rebholz, Contract Specialist at Mark.Rebholz@.va.gov with "San-I-Pak" in the subject line. Telephone inquiries will not be honored. All questions MUST be in writing using one of the above mentioned methods.