SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) Imaging and Maintenance Support
- Notice Date
- 10/3/2003
- 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
- 101-13-03
- Response Due
- 12/4/2003
- Archive Date
- 1/3/2004
- Point of Contact
- Contracting Officer - Tamika Gray, Contract Specialist, (202) 273-6471
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Tamika Gray
(tamika.gray@mail.va.gov)
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) intends to solicit for VistA Imaging and Maintenance Support services. This solicitation/procurement is a 100 percent (%) small business set-aside. All qualified small businesses are encouraged to participate in this competition. The estimated time frame for issuance of the solicitation is the first quarter of fiscal year 2004 (on or before 10/20/03). At that time interested small businesses can access the solicitation on line at http://www.bos.oamm.va.gov and the Federal Business Opportunity System at http://www.fedbizopps.com. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541519, Other Computer Related Services; size standard $21 million. Small businesses exploring teaming and subcontracting arrangements with other potential vendors (i.e. large businesses) should be aware that the proposed small business (serving as the prime contractor) shall complete at a minimum 51 percent (%) of the level of effort required to perform and complete the contract. This presolicitation notice does not commit the VA to issuing a solicitation in the future. No response to this announcement is elicited. Background: VA?s Chief Information Office introduced VistA in 1996. VistA is a rich, automated environment that supports day-to-day operations at local VA health care facilities. VistA is built on a client-server architecture, which ties together workstations and personal computers with graphical user interfaces at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities, as well as software developed by local medical facility staff. VistA also includes the links that allow commercial off-the-shelf software and products to be used with existing and future technologies. The Decision Support System (DSS) and other national databases that might be derived from locally generated data lie outside the scope of VistA. When development began on the Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DCHP) in the early 1980s, information systems were in their infancy in VA medical facilities and emphasized primarily hospital-based activities. DHCP grew rapidly and is used by many private and public health care facilities throughout the United States and the world. Although, DHCP represented the total automation activity at most VA medical centers in 1985, DHCP is now only one part of the overall information resources at the local facility level. VistA incorporates all of the benefits of DHCP as well as including the rich array of other information resources that are becoming vital to the day-to-day operations at the VA medical facilities. It represents the culmination of DHCP?s evolution and metamorphosis into a new, open system, client-server based environment that takes full advantage of commercial solutions, including those provided by Internet technologies. Place of Contract Performance: Washington Metropolitan Area. Set-aside Status: 100 Percent (%)Small Business Set-aside.
- Web Link
-
RFP 101-13-03
(http://www.bos.oamm.va.gov/solicitation?number=101-13-03)
- Record
- SN00447397-W 20031005/031003213103 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
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