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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF AUGUST 19, 2016 FBO #5383
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R -- Health Systems Eng & Facilitation Svcs - Attachment

Notice Date

8/17/2016
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

541330 — Engineering Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Program Contracting Activity Central;6150 Oak Tree Blvd, Suite 300;Independence OH 44131
 

ZIP Code

44131
 

Solicitation Number

VA70116N0170
 

Response Due

8/24/2016
 

Archive Date

10/23/2016
 

Point of Contact

See Attachment
 

E-Mail Address

jason.phillip@va.gov
(jason.phillip@va.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

Health Systems Engineering and Facilitation Services This request for information (RFI) is issued solely to determine the availability of verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) and Veteran Owned Small Businesses (VOSBs) that are capable of providing the services identified in the following General Requirements section. SDVOSBs and VOSBs must be certified by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as SDVOSB/VOSB to be eligible for a set aside under VA's Veterans First Contracting Program. Additional information including registration instructions can be found at (http://www.va.gov/OSDBU/index.asp). A company that is not certified as an SDVOSB/VSOB by the VA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business (OSDBU) in the Vendor Information Pages (VIP) should not respond to this notice. This RFI is for planning purposes only and shall not be considered an Invitation for Bid, Request for Quotation, or a Request for Proposal. This request does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. Additionally, there is no obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services described in this RFI. Your response to this RFI will be treated only as information for the Government to consider. You will not be entitled to payment for direct or indirect costs that you incur in responding to this RFI. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this RFI. Generic capability statements will not be accepted or reviewed. Your response must address capabilities specific to the services required and scope of the project in the following general requirements and must include the following: a.Provide a summary of your technical capability to meet the general requirements. b.Corporate experience or expertise in performing these services for projects of a similar size and scope, and specific examples or references. Specific examples or references provided must include the agency, point of contact, dollar value, and contract number. c.The intent and ability to meet set-aside requirements for performance of this effort must include information as to available personnel and financial resources; full names of proposed team members and the general requirements planned to be subcontracted to them; and indicate whether at least 50% of the cost of labor is planned to be expended for prime employees or employees of other eligible SDVOSB/VOSB firms, which must include the prime planned percentage and if under 50%, the names of the potential team members that may be used to fulfill the 50% SDVOSB/VOSB requirement. Classifications: The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this requirement is 541330 - Engineering Services - with a size standard of $15 million 541611 - Administrative Management & General Management Consulting Services - with a size standard of $15 million 611430 - Professional and Management Development Training - with a size standard of $11 million Background: Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership, a 2005 report by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, documented that the health care sector as a whole has been relatively slow to embrace health systems engineering (HSE) tools and techniques, which could help untangle the complexities and lead to a deeper understanding of the dynamics of health care systems and subsystems and could be designed to optimize system performance to meet specific quality goals (e.g., safety, patient centeredness, timeliness) and, at the same time, improve prediction, measurement, and management to meet other performance goals (e.g., cost, access, productivity). Transformational advancements in the quality and productivity of VHA may require tools and techniques developed as part of HSE, a family of disciplines that includes industrial engineering, operations research, human factors engineering, and financial engineering/risk analysis, as well as from computer science and engineering and the social and behavioral sciences. All of these engineering and science disciplines are integrally involved in the design, analysis, and control of complex processes and systems. HSE, which combines science and mathematics to improve the operation of systems, has greatly benefited other enterprises by describing, analyzing, planning, designing, and integrating systems with complex interactions among people, processes, materials, equipment, and facilities using deterministic and probabilistic mathematics (called stochastic processes). The ultimate goal of HSE is to incorporate all of elements in the operations of a system to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, VERCs are tasked to provide academic opportunities for cross training and integrate OSE with health care expertise to promote cultural change and improve health care delivery. General Requirements: 1.The specific objectives of this contract are the following: Contribute to VERC as a collaborative resource and development center that will integrate engineering knowledge and tools with health care expertise to improve health care delivery. Provide academic opportunities for cross training in systems engineering and health care. Promote cultural change through learning and work force development. Develop effective new paradigms of systems' change and patient care. Provide educational opportunities to develop a cadre of experts in health systems engineering, including: a)Healthcare training for system engineering disciplines b)Health System Engineering training for healthcare professionals c)Facilitate research 2.Shall include the ability to provide the following engineering disciplines a)Industrial/Systems Engineering b)Health Systems Engineering c)Human Factors Engineering d)Computer Science Engineering 3.Shall include the ability to provide the following Systems Engineering Tools/Methods: a)Discrete Event Simulation b)Stochastic Models c)Financial Engineering/Cost Estimation d)Health Systems Integration e)Human Centered Design, to include Usability Testing f)Lean and Six Sigma g)Measurement System Development h)Technology/lifecycle Management i)Value Stream Mapping j)Time and Motion Studies k)Process Observation l)Process Mapping 4.These objectives shall be initiated through the following services: a)Health Systems Engineering Services: Services provided in support of agencies' mission of integration of Health Systems Engineering tools and methods. Examples of health systems engineering services include but are not limited to: Health Systems Integration; Human Centered Design; Data Engineering Services; Systems alignment and integration services; Informatics services; Simulation Services; Technology/Lifecycle Management Services. b)Facilitation Services: Services include facilitation and related decision support services for agencies engaged in collaboration efforts, working groups, or integrated product, process, or self-directed teams. Agencies bringing together diverse teams and/or groups with common and divergent interests may require a neutral party to assist them in: development of skills related to application of systems redesign and systems engineering tools, the use of problem solving techniques; defining and refining the agenda; debriefing and overall meeting planning; logistical meeting/conference support when performing technical facilitation; convening and leading large and small group briefings and discussions; providing a draft for the permanent record; recording discussion content and enabling focused decision-making; and preparing draft and final reports for dissemination. Responses are due no later than 3:00 PM ET, August 24, 2016 via email to Jason Phillip, Contracting Specialist at jason.phillip@va.gov and Steve Grzybowski, Contracting Officer at Steven.Grzybowski@va.gov. Please note "RFI VA701-16-N-0170 - VERC RFI" in the subject line of your response.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/ISC/OISC/VA70116N0170/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA701-16-N-0170 VA701-16-N-0170.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2948546&FileName=VA701-16-N-0170-000.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2948546&FileName=VA701-16-N-0170-000.docx

 

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Record

SN04229037-W 20160819/160817235822-c40313f5de6018b068cf457fc391ff18 (fbodaily.com)
 

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