MEDICAL PHYSICIST AND DOSIMETRY CONSULTING SERVICES FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY

The Radiation Oncology departments within NYC Health + Hospitals provide external beam radiotherapy and HDR brachytherapy to treat different types of cancer with the goal of providing patients with high-quality care that is effective and allows them to return to their busy lives. The care team strives to keep patients comfortable during the care process and includes an array of specialists dedicated to achieving excellent patient outcomes, including radiation oncologists, medical physicists, therapists and nurses.

NYC Health + Hospitals is seeking a vendor to provide medical physics and medical dosimetry consulting services for its Radiation Oncology program. The awarded vendor will provide  full-time, dedicated medical physicist and dosimetrist staff for treatment planning and delivery, linear accelerator quality assurance and control, CT simulator quality assurance and control, compliance testing, continuing education for staff, consulting services, and performance testing. The awarded firm may be asked to provide or participate in radiation safety services.

The services within the RFP will partially cover physics and dosimetry services at the four acute care NYC Health + Hospitals sites that provide Radiation Oncology services:

• Elmhurst Hospital, Queens (1 TrueBeam, 1 GE Discovery CT Sim)
• Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn (1 Varian Trilogy and 1 Elekta to be replaced in 2025-6, 1 Philips CT sim, HDR brachy)
• Lincoln Hospital, Bronx (1 Clinac IX, 1 GE Discovery RT CT simulator)
• Queens Hospital, Queens (TrueBeam installation in 2025, GE Discovery CT sim installation in 2025, Bravos HDR brachy unit)