Ministry of Defense, CP21c, Room 104, Wellesley House, 103-109 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7BN, United Kingdom

Q -- COMPUTERS AND RELATED SERVICES SOL CP21c/617 DUE 120199 POC Elaine Bowers, CP21c/617, 01144 141 224 8243. The Surgeon General is professional head of the UK's Defence Medical Service (DMS) which delivers healthcare to service personnel and civilians in peacetime and on military operations. The Surgeon General has a strategic goal to achieve a single and fully interoperable medical communications and information strategy by the year 2005. In pursuit of the above strategic goal, the Authority, subject to the financial and other approvals for the project being obtained, is now seeking to procure services to address the information needs of the DMS. The scope will include most, or all, of the information requirements of the DMS, which currently comprises the following main business functions: overall policy development (including tri-Service epidemiology) and policy promulgation; medical personnel, planning and policy audit; strategic planning of medical operational capability support; primary healthcare for the three Services which includes occupational health, public health, health promotion, defense epidemiology and the delivery of general practitioner services included when deployed in military operations; secondary health care provision and access for the three Services, and provision for the training of secondary healthcare clinicians and other medical staff for deployment in military operations; dental care for the three services; medical supplies provision (and medical supplies advice) to primary healthcare centers, dental centers, defense secondary healthcare centers and to medical support in military operations; and healthcare training provision. Potential Service Providers should note that a number of manual and automated information systems addressing parts of the above requirement are already deployed or under development. Potential Service Providers who successfully pass the pre-qualifying stage will be invited to propose approaches to include the functions provided by these systems within the new managed service(s). Proposed approaches might include integration, development and/or replacement of these systems subject to existing contractual constraints. Posted 12/16/98 (M-SN280959). (0350)

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