SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Strategic Innovation Challenge Design Workshops
- Notice Date
- 7/31/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Technology Acquisition Center, VA Technology Acquisition Center, Department of Veterans Affairs;Technology Acquisition Center;260 Industrial Way West;Eatontown NJ 07724
- ZIP Code
- 07724
- Solicitation Number
- VA-798T-09-RQ-0016
- Response Due
- 8/12/2009
- Archive Date
- 10/11/2009
- Point of Contact
- Carol NewcombContract Specialist<br />
- E-Mail Address
-
Contract Specialist
(carol.newcomb@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Acquisition and Logistics, Technology Acquisition Center intends to enter into a six-month Firm-Fixed-Price contract with Vanderbilt Center for Better Health (VCBH), 3401 West End Avenue, Suite 290, Nashville, TN 37203-6866 pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 253(c) (1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements, for two Strategic Innovation Challenge Design Workshops. These workshops will address two critical strategic healthcare information technology (HIT) innovation topics: Chemotherapy Ordering and Point of Care Support of Clinical Decision Making/Just-In-Time Provide Education. The Strategic Innovation Challenge Design Workshops are part of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Innovation Program which provides field innovators with a mechanism to develop solutions to strategically targeted VHA business opportunities by obtaining specialized innovation support services to assist VHA in innovative IT design, development, and use, and to accelerate solutions in a manner and time frame that cannot be achieved through traditional meetings or conference programs. These innovation support services focus on healthcare information, medical informatics, and HIT expertise during contractor conducted and facilitated workshop sessions, using accelerated, concentrated, visioning and visualization, fact based, critical thought function design methods resulting in tangible outputs, which can then be used by VHA to initiate collaborative IT development. In order to meet Innovation Program goals, these workshops must be conducted within 60 days of contract award in early November 2009. VCBH is the only organization that possesses both the trained facilitators in the patented methodologies and facilities designed to enhance and trigger creativity in the human brain and extract those thoughts into visual, workable concepts, along with access to the unique knowledge and skills of domain experts, as well readily available staff of experienced medical, health IT and informatics experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center which is a world leader in biomedical informatics. The solicitation number assigned to this effort is VA-798T-09-RQ-0016 and will be issued on or about 12 August 2009. An award date of no later than 28 September 2009 is desired. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals, however all responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. The NAICS Code/Size is 541690/$7M. This purchase is to be processed using Simplified Acquisition Procedures in conjunction with FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items.
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