Directorate of Contracting, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307-5000

70 -- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH -- COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE POC Al Bariatti, (202) 782-1103, Contracting Officer. The Program Management Office of the DoD Occupational Health Readiness System (DOHRS) is conducting a market survey to identify sources which may be capable of providing commercially available off-the-shelf software products to access the functional and technical attributes of the occupational health information systems that are currently available or will be available within the next six months. Primary focus of the DOHRS program is automated support for the industrial hygiene occupational medicine, and hearing conservation programs within the Military Health Services System (MHSS) and required by the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970. The system would be used to support approximately 600 DoD worksites & clinics worldwide. Users would be site-based industrial hygienists and occupational health care providers responsible for protecting DoD employees from job-related hazards. The system will also be used for enterprise wide analysis and decision making to support standardization of occupational health business practices and promotion of the wellness and readiness of active and reserve component personnel. An Objective of this survey is to obtain an understanding of and making assessments about the availability, applicability suitability and approximate cost of an integrated solution comprised of one or more commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products which collectively support the following functions: 1. maintain employee demographic records; 2. assesses workplace health hazards and risks; 3. surveys health & illness in employee population; 4. tracks employee occupational exposures; 5. recommends/develops prevention measures; 6. provides training and education; 7. collects & disseminates occupational illness surveillance data; 8. conducts epidemiological studies in occupational health; 9. identifies potential compensation & disability costs; 10. monitors OHSA compliance; 11. maintains centralized corporate executive database; 12. provides administrative planning and record keeping; Technical -- PC based client/server architecture w/graphical user interface, support for and compliance with the following standards: MHSS Health Information Infrastructure (HII), Defense Information Infrastructure common operating environment (DII COE), Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM), and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). Interested firms should submit the following information to the DOHRS Program Office at the following address: Commander, CHPPM, Attn: MCHB-CS-OHM (Jim Patrick), Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD 21010-5422, or Faxed to (410) 671-1325. 1. Product brochure literature describing each COTS product; 2. a white paper which addresses how your commercial products could be used to fulfill all or some of the occupational health requirements; 3. hardware and software environment in which your COTS products can be operated; 4. other system software products (e.g. database management system) needed to support your COTS product; 5. commercial and/or GSA schedule prices for application and system software products, software integration, training and implementation support; 6. customer references using some or all of the occupational health management information system. (0136)

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