Tool Sharpening Tool

The contractor will provide surgical instrument, case cart, closed container repair and instrument markings five (5) days per week, with customer service available upon request. MTF anticipates the volume of instruments as ranging from 280-320 sets/kits per month: urology, plastics, ophthalmology, ENT, trauma, GYN, vascular, open heart (cardio thoracic), general, neurology, and orthopedic instruments such as osteotome, ronguers, curettes, and scissors. A set is defined as instruments that are classified as having a unique entry in Censistrac, or the equivalent of 15 individual instruments. Services to be performed include repair and maintenance of surgical instrument and reusable medical devices. These instruments and reusable devices includes but are not limited to scissors, retractors, forceps, needle holders, kerrisons, osteotomes, gouges, curettes, elevators, chisels, skin hooks, bone/pin cutters, rongeurs, microscopic instruments, laparoscopic instruments, and any other instruments or reusable medical equipment as needed. The Contractor shall accomplish the repairing, sharpening, adjusting, aligning, re-insulation, restoration, refurbishing, testing, refinishing, and general cleaning of these items according to manufacturer's recommendation and industry standard for safe patient use. Additionally, the Contractor shall accomplish the proper etching of instruments and reusable medical devices compatible with the CensiTrac Surgical Instrument Tracking System, and recommend/accomplish the recycling of instruments or reusable medical devices as deemed necessary by the SPD Section. SHARPENING. At a minimum all scissors, cutters, blades, osteotomes, reamers, drills, bits, forceps, needle holders and biters presented as sets or individually by the SPD Section will be sharpened. All aforementioned items that are present in a set, or individual pieces of equipment, will be sharpened until the cutting or drilling edges are fine and can easily perform the function the equipment was designed for per medical and manufacturer specifications. REPAIR. Instruments and other specified items are considered repaired when all items and instruments designed for repair are returned to the shape or posture that the manufacturer intended. All bent, twisted and broken instruments must be straightened, and articulated to ensure seamless performance of intended function. If an item is deemed beyond repair by the Contractor, the item is to be separated from the set and marked with a legible damage report. If the item is beyond repair and needs to be discarded, the item must be returned to the SPD Section with an explanation in writing and the date of the finding. The Contractor is not authorized to dispose of any government owned material. POP: 1 September 2022 - 31 August 2023 plus four option years