SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Veterans Integrated Software Technology Architecture (VistA) Maintenance and Expertise Center
- Notice Date
- 2/21/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs, Acquisition Operations Service, (049A3), 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, District Of Columbia 20420
- ZIP Code
- 20420
- Solicitation Number
- 101-14-03
- Archive Date
- 5/7/2003
- Point of Contact
- Contracting Officer - Sophia Hurt, Contract Specialist, (202) 273-5739
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Sophia Hurt
(sophia.hurt@mail.va.gov)
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for the full and open competition of the Veterans Integrated Software Technology Architecture (VistA) Maintenance and Expertise Center. The Acquisition Operations Service on behalf of Veterans Health Administration is issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) providing maintenance and support for VistA Maintenance and Expertise Center. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates approximately 170 computer rooms across the CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. These computer rooms house equipment that operates VistA. VistA has become a mission critical component in providing quality health care to veterans. VA requires maintenance and support for all components and software used to operate and access VistA that is part of a standard VistA configuration defined and certified by the VA AXP, Avanti, Exchange, and Imaging support groups. This maintenance exceeds just break/fix and requires maintaining any and all information technology components including workstations, servers, disaster recovery, network components, software, and licensing. Expertise center support includes 24 hour a day, 365 day a year remote telephone support and on-site support when necessary or requested. The expertise center responsibilities will include, but not be limited to: Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) application support, configuration support, configuration engineering, configuration design, compatibility testing, software testing, training, problem analysis, network design, network problem analysis, troubleshooting, VA developed application support, capacity planning, capacity monitoring, technology evaluation, and general IT analysis. Expansion of Expertise Center responsibilities may grow as new technology utilized to support VistA is implemented. The North American Industry Classification System code for this acquisition is 541519.
- Web Link
-
RFP 101-14-03
(http://www.bos.oamm.va.gov/solicitation?number=101-14-03)
- Record
- SN00262959-W 20030223/030221213413 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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