Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-HCOM) proposes to purchase a compact mobile unit to complement its existing fleet of two 40-foot mobile health units. The compact unit will serve a 20-county area in Southeast Ohio, expanding access to health screenings and care. The Southeast Ohio counties served will be Athens, Coshocton, Fairfield, Gallia, Guernsey, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton, and Washington. Operated by OU-HCOM’s Community Health Programs, the compact mobile health unit will serve adult and child populations across Southeast Ohio by providing health screening and education clinics, immunizations, childhood hearing and vision screenings, as well as increasing capacity for primary care and women’s health clinics. The compact mobile unit will not require a commercial driver’s license to operate and will be able to travel to rural locations that cannot accommodate the current fleet of mobile health units. Community Health Programs was founded in 1994 as the community outreach arm of Ohio University’s College of Medicine. With a mobile health unit, the staff and volunteers set out to provide childhood vaccinations across Southeast Ohio. Nearly 30 years later, the Community Health Programs Heritage Community Clinic is a free and charitable clinic which provides a wide portfolio of healthcare services to a 24-county region. Services are provided to uninsured and underinsured individuals by a dedicated team of clinical professionals, volunteer providers, medical students, and health professions students. Ohio University released a public Request for Proposal on May 20, 2022, and bids are due by close of business on June 10, 2022. The RFP requests that the total length of the van, including both front driver cabin and rear van body cabin, shall be <30 feet. The width of the van shall not exceed 8½ feet, except for mirrors or other specified appurtenances added to the side(s) of the van. The overall height of the van is to be no more than 13 feet 2 inches. The interior ceiling height of the van body (rear cabin) must be nominally 8 feet 0 inches plus or minus 1.5 inch. The interior width of the van body (rear cabin) must be a minimum of 7 feet 11 inches plus or minus 1.5 inch. Bidders on this design-build contract must provide Ohio University a detailed floor plan, including all equipment specified and placement thereof. Ohio University has attached sample bids in its Congressionally Directed Spending Construction Project application, due to the RFP process not closing until after the application is due.
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