SOURCES SOUGHT: Mortuary Services Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)

The United States Air Force is conducting market research to identify potential sources that can provide comprehensive mortuary services under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). The services include the recovery, transportation, and preparation of remains, as well as providing authorized caskets, urns, and required permits within the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska area of responsibility. The contractor shall provide facilities, equipment, licensed personnel, motor vehicles, and furnish professional services and requirements, supplies, death certificates, caskets, urns, outer shipping containers, transportation, and perform hygienic practices as specified in the Performance Work Statement (PWS). • The contractor shall practice hygienic measures to assure complete and satisfactory disinfection and sanitation of the funeral establishment. • The contractor shall provide high-quality service and a sufficient number of licensed embalmers to process (embalm) or reprocess any remains under this contract on a timely basis. • The contractor shall comply with the Armed Services requirements and specifications and all federal, state, and local health laws, statutes, and regulations in performing the services. • The contractor shall employ protective, precautionary hygienic measures and techniques designed to accomplish concurrent and terminal disinfection and decontamination of the entire funeral service establishment and environment. • The contractor shall establish a complete quality control program to assure the requirements of the contract are provided as specified.