Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1310 24th Avenue, S., Nashville, TN 37212-2637

R -- MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES SOL 626-23-96 TR DUE 042296 POC Contact Point, William W. Thompson, (615)327-5315, Contracting Officer, William W. Thompson, (615)327-5315 Furnish necessary labor, supplies, telecommunication access charges, supervision, and equipment to perform medical transcription services for the VA Medical Center, Nashville, TN. The term of the contract will be for one year with two 1 year option years. All requests for the proposal will be in writing. Solicitation packages will be available on or about March 20, 1996. Proposal due date is on or about April 22, 1996. This is a small business set aside solicitation with the SIC code of 7338. The size standard is $3.5 million. The work will be performed at the successful contractor's remote location which is unknown at this time. Contract work will be performed in accordance with Service Contract Act. Service contract volume of work is approximately 920,000 lines per year with a possible line count variation of plus or minus 20 percent depending upon work load. The contractor must have the capacity to transcribe work under the contract for up to a maximum of 8000 lines per day . The contract requires that the contractor complete the transcription work within specified turn-around times which ranges from one hour to 48 hours. This is a performance based contract with reductions in contract payments for the contractor's failure to meet either turn around times or quality control standards. Medical center personnel will dictate into the Medical Center's Lanier Voice Writer 4800 OS Central Dictation System. The contractor will have direct access to the central dictation system and access the dictated material directly from the central dictation system then transcribe the material directly into the Medical Center's DCHP computer system (also know as ''telestaffing''). The Re-recording by the contractor will not be allowed. The contractor is solely responsible for resolving all technical issues and achieving successful transmission and interfacing with the Medical Center's central dictaion system and DHCP computer system. Contract award will be based on the following selction factors with each factor progressively less heavily weighted then the previous factor. 1. Offeror's current or recent medical transcription contracts; 2. Offeror's current staffing level; 3, Offeror's equipment capabilities; and 4, Price - based on per line price. There will be sub-selection factors within the major selection factors. Offerors will be required to submit with their initial offers, the following information: their contract experience; staffing rosters; equipment capabilities; and a written performance plan. (0066)

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