ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANING/JANITORIAL SERVICE

Description:

• Contractor shall have aseptic cleaning experience in a medical setting. Services shall be performed in a manner that will maintain a satisfactory facility condition and present a clean, neat, and professional appearance.
• Contract personnel shall be required to properly clean four hundred thirteen five thousand square feet (435,000sqft). This includes sweeping, mopping, stripping, waxing, burnishing, vacuuming and shampooing carpets, high/low dusting, cleaning restrooms, washing walls and windows, changing cubical curtains, cleaning sinks, and removal of trash and general housekeeping duties in a hospital setting.
• The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the Government
• Agencies shall train their employees in appropriate cleaning and disinfection procedures following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guidance as well as for interaction with private sector temporaries to assure that the supervisory responsibilities identified
• At the same time, agencies must give technical, task-related instructions to private sector temporaries including orientation, assignment of tasks, and review of work products, in order that the temporaries may properly perform their services under the contract

SCOPE OF PERFORMANCE

• Contract personnel shall be required to properly clean four hundred thirty five thousand square feet (435,000sqft). of cleanable space as identified in this section.
• Contractor employees will report daily to the designated office prior to beginning daily work and again at completion of workday.
• They will be required to complete a sign-in/sign-out log listing the areas of planned work and actual work accomplished. The sign-in/sign-out log sheet will be provided and monitored by the COR.
• The Contractor employees daily work scheduling is based on work demands and subject to immediate changes.
• The VA reserves the right to propose alternate daily scheduling with the least amount of interference with the normal operation of the facility.
• Equipment and supplies will be provided by the VA to provide daily floor maintenance.

CBOC Areas Slidell 17000 Sq ft Hammond 12900 sq ft Baton Rogue 33246 sq ft

• The contractor will take care of all daily cleaning during the janitorial services for the New Orleans VAMC, Slidell CBOC, Hammond CBOC, and Baton Rouge S, LA CBOC. Our pricing includes labor only to ensure high-quality aseptic services are performed as is necessary in a clinic setting
• Outpatient Rooms: High dust, wipe walls and all furniture in rooms. Clean any debris or paint that may have been left by building contractors. Floors will be mopped with germicidal solution (cleaning methods and germicidal solutions shall be prescribed by the COR. Carpeted floors will be vacuumed. All horizontal surfaces will be kept free of dust and debris. Change out cubical curtains when needed. (Carpets will be shampooed as needed).
• Maintain Floors: All floors, except carpeted areas, shall be swept, dust mopped, damp mopped, wet mopped, dry buffed, and spray buffed to ensure they have a uniform, glossy appearance and free from dirt, debris, dust, scuff and heel marks, other stains and discoloration, and other foreign matter. Baseboards, corners, and wall/floor edges shall also be clean. All floor maintenance solutions shall be removed from baseboards, furniture, trash receptacles, chairs, trash receptacles, and other moveable items shall be moved to maintain floors underneath these items. All moved items shall be returned to their original and proper position. Wet strip and apply fresh coats of floor finish to resilient floors Semi Annually or as needed.
• Break room: All have VCT flooring and shall be dust mopped, wet mopped and refinished. Counters, sinks, and shelving will be clean with no particles on or underneath appliances and wiped with VA approved germicidal. All tables, chairs, and other furnishings will be wiped down with VA approved germicidal and left free of any part particles, smears, or stains. This area should be ready for inspection and free of any dust on vents, ledges and walls should be clean with no lint, finger marks, or stains.
• Common Areas: Waiting areas to include the back, seat, and legs of all chairs, tables, windowsills stairwells, and corridors will be swept, mopped, and wiped down with VA approved germicidal frequently throughout the day. Entrance mats shall be clean as required to maintain quality standards.
• Remove Trash: All trash should be removed from the areas being cleaned at the end of each day. Boxes, cans, and papers placed near a trash receptacle and marked "TRASH” shall be removed. The trash shall be deposited in the nearest outside trash collection container. Trash receptacles shall be left clean, free of foreign matter, and free of odors. Red bags or RMW ( Chemo) to go to the loading dock in RMW room.
• Clean and Disinfect: Completely clean, disinfect with the use of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved hospital grade germicidal detergent, and polish dry all surfaces of sinks, water fountains and plumbing fixtures. After cleaning, receptacles will be free of deposits, dirt, streaks, and odors. Waiting rooms shall be free of all paper, trash, empty bottles, and other discarded material.
• Clean Interior Glass/Mirrors: Clean all interior glass, including glass in doors, partitions, walls, display cases, directory boards, fire extinguisher case, check in windows, Inpatient Pharmacy window, Outpatient Pharmacy Pick up window, Nurses Station, and glass picture frames. After glass cleaning, there shall be no traces of film, dirt, streaks, smudges, water, or other foreign matter.
• Vacuum Carpets: Vacuum carpeted areas. After daily vacuuming, the carpeted area shall be free of all visible dirt, debris, litter, and other foreign matter. Any spots shall be removed by carpet manufacturer's approved methods as soon as noticed. All tears, burns, and raveling shall be brought to the attention of the Government representative.
• Clean Carpets: All carpets shall be cleaned in accordance with standard commercial practices. A heavy-duty spot remover may be required in heavily soiled areas. After shampooing, the carpeted area will be uniform in appearance and free of stains and discoloration. All cleaning solutions shall be removed from baseboards, furniture, trash receptacles, chairs, and other similar items. Chairs, trash receptacles, and other items shall be moved to clean carpets underneath and returned to their original location.
• Vacuum and Clean Floor Mats: Vacuum and clean interior and exterior floor mats. After vacuuming or cleaning, mats shall be free of all visible lint, litter, soil and other foreign matter. Soil and moisture underneath mats shall be removed, and mats returned to their normal location.
• General Spot Cleaning: Perform spot cleaning on a continual basis. Spot cleaning includes, but is not limited to removing, or cleaning smudges, fingerprints, marks, streaks, spills, from washable surfaces of all walls, partitions, vents, grillwork, doors, door guards, door handles, push bars, kick plates, light switches, temperature controls, and fixtures. After spot cleaning, the surface shall have a clean, uniform appearance, free of streaks, spots, and other evidence of soil.
• General Dusting: All horizontal surfaces shall be dusted or cleaned to eliminate dust collection and wiped with VA approved germicidal.
• Change out Cubical Curtains when needed or soiled.

Public Restrooms and Shower areas part of the square footage in Towers J, H and Concourse Sq Footage 306,260.

• Clean and Disinfect: Completely clean and disinfect as needed with the use of an EPA approved hospital grade germicidal detergent all surfaces of sinks, toilet bowls, urinals, lavatories, showers, shower mats, dispensers, plumbing fixtures, saunas, partitions, dispensers, doors, walls, and other such surfaces. After cleaning, receptacles will be free of deposits, dirt, streaks, and odors. Disinfect all surfaces of partitions, stalls, stall doors, entry doors, (including handles, kick plates, ventilation grates, metal guards, all stainless-steel appliances and wall areas adjacent to wall mounted lavatories, urinals, and toilets.
• Descale Toilet Bowls: Descaling shall be performed every week as a minimum and as often as needed to keep areas free of scale, soap films, and other deposits. After descaling, surfaces shall be free from streaks, stains, scale, scum, urine deposits, and rust stains.
• Sweep and Mop Floor: After sweeping and mopping, the entire floor surface, including grout, shall be free from litter, dirt, dust, and debris. Floors shall have a uniform appearance without streaks, swirl marks, detergent residue, or any evidence of soil, stain, film, or standing water. Moveable items shall be tilted or moved to sweep and damp mop underneath. The item is to be returned to its original spot upon completion of task. Floors shall be dust mopped, stripped, scrubbed, waxed, buffed, as necessary to maintain sanitary conditions and a clean, uniform appearance.
• Stock Restroom Supplies: Contractor personnel shall ensure restrooms are stocked sufficiently thru out the day so that supplies including soaps, paper towels, and toilet paper do not run out. Supplies shall be stored in designated areas.

Non-Patient Care Areas Food and Nutrition Canteen & offices / Store: F& N 4 th floor is 9731 Sq ft. Canteen area and store are 18099 Sq foot. 1-7 K7L ELEVATOR LOBBIES, TRANSPORTAION BOOTH AND POLICE BOOTH IN EACH GARAGE Sq Ft is 17753

• Maintain Floors: All floors, except carpeted areas, shall be swept, dust mopped, damp mopped, wet mopped or scrubbed , dry buffed, and spray buffed to ensure they have a uniform, glossy appearance and free from dirt, debris, dust, scuff and heel marks, other stains and discoloration, and other foreign matter. Baseboards, corners, and wall/floor edges shall also be clean. All floor maintenance solutions shall be removed from baseboards, furniture, trash receptacles, chairs, trash receptacles, and other moveable items shall be moved to maintain floors underneath these items. All moved items shall be returned to their original and proper position. Wet strip and apply fresh coats of floor finish to resilient floors Semi Annually or as needed.
• Break room: All have VCT flooring and shall be dust mopped, wet mopped and refinished. Counters, sinks, and shelving will be clean with no particles on or underneath appliances and wiped with VA approved germicidal. All tables, chairs, and other furnishings will be wiped down with VA approved germicidal and left free of any part particles, smears, or stains. This area should be ready for inspection and free of any dust on vents, ledges and walls should be clean with no lint, finger marks, or stains.
• Common Areas: Waiting areas to include the back, seat, and legs of all chairs, tables, windowsills stairwells, and corridors will be swept, mopped, and wiped down with VA approved germicidal frequently throughout the day. Entrance mats shall be clean as required to maintain quality standards.
• Remove Trash: All trash should be removed from the areas being cleaned at the end of each day. Boxes, cans, and papers placed near a trash receptacle and marked "TRASH” shall be removed. The trash shall be deposited in the nearest outside trash collection container. Trash receptacles shall be left clean, free of foreign matter, and free of odors.
• Clean and Disinfect: Completely clean, disinfect with the use of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved hospital grade germicidal detergent, and polish dry all surfaces of sinks, water fountains and plumbing fixtures. After cleaning, receptacles will be free of deposits, dirt, streaks, and odors. Waiting rooms shall be free of all paper, trash, empty bottles, and other discarded material.
• Clean Interior Glass/Mirrors: Clean all interior glass, including glass in doors, partitions, walls, display cases, directory boards, fire extinguisher case, check in windows, Inpatient Pharmacy window, Outpatient Pharmacy Pick up window, Nurses Station, and glass picture frames. After glass cleaning, there shall be no traces of film, dirt, streaks, smudges, water, or other foreign matter.
• Vacuum Carpets: Vacuum carpeted areas. After daily vacuuming, the carpeted area shall be free of all visible dirt, debris, litter, and other foreign matter. Any spots shall be removed by carpet manufacturer's approved methods as soon as noticed. All tears, burns, and raveling shall be brought to the attention of the Government representative.
• Clean Carpets: All carpets shall be cleaned in accordance with standard commercial practices. A heavy-duty spot remover may be required in heavily soiled areas. After shampooing, the carpeted area will be uniform in appearance and free of stains and discoloration. All cleaning solutions shall be removed from baseboards, furniture, trash receptacles, chairs, and other similar items. Chairs, trash receptacles, and other items shall be moved to clean carpets underneath and returned to their original location.
• Vacuum and Clean Floor Mats: Vacuum and clean interior and exterior floor mats. After vacuuming or cleaning, mats shall be free of all visible lint, litter, soil and other foreign matter. Soil and moisture underneath mats shall be removed, and mats returned to their normal location.
• General Spot Cleaning: Perform spot cleaning on a continual basis. Spot cleaning includes, but is not limited to removing, or cleaning smudges, fingerprints, marks, streaks, spills, from washable surfaces of all walls, partitions, vents, grillwork, doors, door guards, door handles, push bars, kick plates, light switches, temperature controls, and fixtures. After spot cleaning, the surface shall have a clean, uniform appearance, free of streaks, spots, and other evidence of soil.
• General Dusting: All horizontal surfaces shall be dusted or cleaned to eliminate dust collection and wiped with VA approved germicidal.

Floor maintenance:

• The Contractor shall strip wax, finish and buff using non-slip floor finish. The Contractor shall "turn back the rugs” in order to clean and finish the floor areas. The stripping of wax, finish and buffing shall be performed Semi Annually or as requested. The scheduling of this task will be coordinated between the Contractor and on-site POC and staff occupying building to ensure there is no disruption to staff and visitors.
• Individual rooms and/or a designated area requiring the stripping of wax, refinishing and rebuffing, shall occur and direction of the on-site POC. The area or the room requiring the service will be identified by on-site POC or designated representative to the COR.
• The Contractor shall wet mop using a neutral floor cleaner, using a Micro-Fiber Mopping System to mop all accessible areas including corners and abutments. The Contractor shall remove any splash marks or streaks on furniture, walls, baseboards, etc... Isolation room cleaning will include disinfecting floors using a flat microfiber system.
• The Contractor shall not mop wood or carpeted floors. The Contractor will only use string mops in the case of large spills. When string mops are required, a double bucket mopping process will be used.
• The Contractor shall sweep, dust, and damp mop hard-surfaces, resilient flooring to include normal traffic areas, group rooms, and restrooms. The floors shall be swept, dusted and damp mop using a treated or dust- free method/mop. The Contractor shall ensure that the cleaning includes the corners and abutments. The Contractor shall tilt or move chairs, trash receptacles, and other easily movable items to clean underneath and shall return items to their proper position.
• The Contractor shall spray and buff all floors accessible to floor machine unless specified elsewhere as having carpet or special flooring. The Contractor shall apply a uniform coating of non-skid floor finish to protect and restore gloss or sheen. The Contractor shall remove excess floor finish solutions. The Contractor shall apply these techniques only to the portion of the floor needing work, to bring the entire floor up to standard.

PERSONNEL QUALIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Supervision: The Contractor shall be responsible for providing a Project Manager who shall be responsible for overseeing the performance of contract personnel. The COR will be notified in writing of the Contractor personnel names and of changes in personnel appointed to fulfill this function or substitution of personnel due to illness or leave.
• Training: The contract personnel will be required to go through the VA training required by all Environmental Management Service employees. This will include reading the Sanitation Procedure Manual and Completing the Mandatory training courses: VA Information Security Awareness, VHA Privacy Policy Training, Customer Service, Blood Borne Pathogens, Hand Hygiene Program. The VA will also expand on the following subjects as they apply to the VA health care facilities: Facility Emergency Fire & Safety Program, Accident Reporting, Sexual Harassment and Ethics.
• Communication: Daily effective communication is critical and requires ability to speak, understand, and follow simple instructions in English.
• Uniforms and Employee Identification: Contractor personnel assigned to the performance of this contract are to wear a Contractor provided standard distinctive uniform that is clearly distinguishable. Uniforms are to be clean and maintained in good repair. Contractor personnel will be provided, a clearly readable name identification device consisting of the employee's name and the service name will be worn on or in the area of the left breast pocket (above the waist). All other safety/protective clothing or equipment shall be provided and maintained by the VA at no expense and worn when appropriate. All Contract personnel will receive a background check and documentation will be provided before beginning work at any VA facility. In special sanitation and/or isolation situations, Contractor personnel may be required to wear special protective clothing and shoe covers supplied by the VA medical center. Such items are to remain as the property of the Government and must be turned in once the position is eliminated. They will be received, worn, and turned in or disposed of as directed.

Service Locations
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System (SLVHCS) – 2400 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70119
Slidell CBOC – 60491 Doss Dr, Ste. B, Slidell, LA 70461
Hammond CBOC – 1131 S Morrison Blvd, Hammond, LA 70403
Baton Rouge S , LA CBOC – 7850 Anselmo Lane Baton Rouge, LA 70810-1101

HOURS OF OPERATION:

• The Contractor shall perform services required by this contract 7 days a week to include weekends and holidays.
• The Contracting Officer Representative (COR) must approve any changes to the Contractor's schedule in advance.
• The Contractor's employees should be available seven days a week to include federal holidays between the hours of 7:00 am – 11:30 pm to meet the needs of the VA.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Tipo de puesto: Tiempo completo

Sueldo: $19.60 la hora

Horas previstas: 40 por semana

Lugar de trabajo: Viajar de manera regular

Salary : $20