Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10000 Brecksville Road, Brecksville, OH 44141

D -- PROVIDE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM SOL RFQ 541-122-99 DUE 092899 POC Danny O. Freeman, Contracting Officer, (440) 838-6091 This is a full and open competitive acquisition using Commercial Items Procurement procedures and is issued in accordance with instructions prescribed in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, for which, a solicitation will be issued. The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center intends to solicit, on behalf of the Chief Information Office (CIO) National Training & Education Office (NT&EO) of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the services of a private contractor to crate and produce, in conjunction with relevant Implementation and training services staff, a new Information Technology (IT) implementation rollout process. The contractor shall also produce and provide an "assessment and deployment strategy tool" to enable ITS project managers to tailor appropriate features of IT rollouts to the specific and unique needs of the particular rollout at VHA care delivery facilities while adhering to a consistent, standardized rollout process. The contractor shall further assure that relevant ITS project managers become proficient in the use of the new IT implementation rollout process and the assessment and deployment strategy tool. Services shall be performed in Six (6) phases, with deliverables due to VHA in each phase. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this acquisition is 7379 and the Small Business Size Standard is $18.0 Million. All requests for solicitations must be in writing to the Contracting Officer and may be requested by fax at (440) 838-6091. Offers may be faxed at the same number. Solicitations packages will be available o/a September 20, 1999. Posted 09/19/99 (W-SN381768). (0262)

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