Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center West Los Angeles, 11301 Wilshire Blvd., Building 218, Room 311, (90), Los Angeles, CA 90073

B -- ADVANCED LEVEL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM PROGRAMMER SERVICES SOL RFP691-06-98 DUE 121198 POC GRACE KIM, Contract Specialist, (310) 268-4759 fax This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the subparts in Federal Acquisition Regulation 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitaion; Request for Proposal (RFP) are being requested and written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 46. This solicitation shall be 100% small business set aside. The SIC code 7371 and the small business size is $5M. The Contractor's experience will be evaluated as it relates to the services requested. The VA Medical Center West Los Angeles is requiring of temporary services of an Advanced Level Statistical Analysis programmer to assist building a cost structure for the Decision Support System. The medical center is assessing the cost-effectiveness of patient care. Disease-specific regression models will be build to perform this assessment. The cost-effectiveness of various treatment patterns will be compared. The duration of the contract is approximately 720 hours for 20 hours/week for a period not to exceed nine (9) months. Specific duties to be performed by the Contractor include the following: 1) The SAS programmer will write SAS programs to build simulation models to simulate actual costs, standard costs, budget costs, efficiency, and productivity measures for each production unit. There are total of over 200 production units in this medical center. 2) Contractor is required to write programs to simulate costs for each intermediate production units. The simulation results will be used to define the appropriate Relative Value Unit (RVU) for each intermediate product. 3) Contractor is required to build disease models to assess the cost-effectiveness in treatment interventions and clinical pathways. 4) The programmer will convert ASCII data to SAS data base. Data will be downloaded from more than 20 files from Hospital's DHCP system. 5)Write advanced-level SAS programs to allocate appropriate workload and cost data to each production unit, and caulculate cost category, and spread costs into each intermediate product through RVU's. 6) Adjust RVU to match the computer caulculated productivity to productivity delivered from actual observation using time study. 7) Generate reports from SAS outputs by transporting outputs into MS Office/Professional software. 8) Build disease models to predict resource utilization to project resouce consumption based on predicted patient case mix. Qualification: Only qualified individual will be considered for award of this contract, and evidence of qualifications must be submitted to the Contracting Officer, principal of the SAS programmer must have Epidemiology background and advanced degree in Biostatistics. The programmer needs to have at least (5) five year's experince in designing and conducting clinical project, such as such as survival analysis, predict likelihood of severity and building disease specific outcome predictive models and explanatory models. The SAS programmer must be proficent in IBM Mainframe, PV (window, Windows NT), VAX, UNIX, SAS, BMDP, SPSS, GLUM, MS Office/Professional, WordPefect, KnowledgeSeeker, NeuroNetworks, Harvard Graphics, GAUSS, dBASE, Paradox, SYSTAT, Splus, Stata, Fortran. All equipment and supplies will be furnished by the DVA Medical Center. Solicitation and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through FAR 97-02. The following incorporated clauses and provisions are applicable to this acquisition: 52.212-4-Contract Terms and Conditions- Commercial Items, 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders- Commercial Items, 52-203-6-Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government, 52.203-10-Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity, 52.219-8-Utilization of Small Business concerns and Small Disadvantaged Business Concerns, 52.222-26-Equal Oppertunity, 52.222-35-Affirmative, 52.222-36-Affirmative action for Handicapped Workers, 52.222-37-Employment reports on Special Disabled Veternas and Veterans of the Vietnam Era, 52.225-3-Buy American Act-supplies, 52.239-1-Privacy or Security of Security Safeguards, 52.233-3-Service of Protest, 52.212-1-Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items, 52.212-3-Offeror Representations and Certifications Items, with its offer. Bidders responding to this announcement shall submit hourly rate along with a qualification and experience to Grace Kim, Contracting Officer (90C), VA Medical Center West Los Angeles, 11301 Wilshire Blvd., Building 218, Room 311, Los Angeles, CA 90073, on or before December 11 by 1:00 PM. local time. (0321)

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