Contracting Officer (90C), VA Medical Center, 40 Industry Drive, West Haven, CT 06516

65 -- MEDICATION COMPLIANCE MONITORS SOL RFP 689-24-97 DUE 120396 POC Mark Phillips, 203-937-3086 Contractor to supply microelectronic compliance monitors, communicators, and software for use in a VA Cooperative Research Study. These items will be leased by VA Connecticut Healthcare System for the length of this study, and then be returned to the contractor. The contractor shall be responsible for replacing any malfunctioning equipment or software. The monitors are caps that attach to standard medication bottles and contain a microprocessor that records the date and time of every bottle opening. The communicators and software will be used to download data from the monitors to a PC. The software shall be capable of converting downloaded data to a windows-based program. Data shall be displayed as calendar plots, dose event lists, and dose time summary for on-screen review with patients. Software shall be able to encode the compliance monitors with required information (e.g., patient name, medication, physician name). The data obtained shall be merged continuously so that patient data accumulates at each monthly progress session held with the patient. The units shall be used in a research study on the effects of a drug. The study shall be based in West Haven, and conducted at 14 other sites. A total of 600 compliance monitors shall be supplied during the initial 30 month patient recruitment period with the first shipment anticipated prior to February 1997. 15 communicators and 15 copies of the software shall be supplied by February 1997. Requests for solicitation packages should be mailed to the contracting officer at the above address, or faxed to (203) 937-3089. This procurement is a 100% set-aside for small-business. SIC Code 3841 applies to this procurement. (0302)

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