Specifications include, but are not limited to: The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services, Bureau of Laboratory Services (“Department”) is seeking responses to this Request for Applications (“solicitation” or “RFA”) from qualified Vendors to act as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Laboratory Director to provide management and direction for the clinical testing performed at the Department’s Public Health Laboratories. The Vendor must: 2.1.1.1.1. Ensure all contract duties are properly performed in accordance with CLIA regulations. 2.1.1.1.2. Ensure the PHL develops and uses a quality system approach to laboratory testing that provides accurate and reliable patient test results. 2.1.1.1.3. Ensure testing systems developed and used for each of the tests performed in the laboratory are of acceptable quality for all aspects of test performance, which includes, but is not limited to: 2.1.1.1.3.1. The pre-analytic phase of testing; 2.1.1.1.3.2. The analytic phase of testing; and 2.1.1.1.3.3. The post-analytic phase of testing. 2.1.1.1.4. Ensure that the physical plant and environmental conditions of the laboratory: 2.1.1.1.4.1. Are appropriate for the testing performed; and 2.1.1.1.4.2. Provide a safe environment in which employees are protected from physical, chemical, biological, and radiological hazards.
