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

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM SOL RFQ 541-019-00 DUE 111999 POC Danny O. Freeman, Contracting Officer, (440) 838-6091 This is a Commercial Items Procurement 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 provide, conjunction with relevant Implementation and training services staff, a new Information Technology System (ITS) 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 ITS 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 following evaluation factors, which are listed in descending order of importance, will apply: 1) Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which virtual, distribute organizations (like VHA) are different from other organizations in their needs regarding information technology (IT). 2) Evidence of being current in thinking about diffusion and adoption of IT in large organizations. 3) Evidence of having worked with large, multi-campus health care organizations at the health care provider level in the area of IT. 4) Demonstrate experience with organizational assessment tools used with "end users" in the area of information technology. 5) Evidence of being current in the IT rollout literature. 6) Evidence of awareness and knowledge, at a sophisticated level, of the current issues and problems affecting IT rollouts in large health care organizations. This is a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside. 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) 838-6052. Offers may be faxed at the same number. Solicitations packages will be available o/a November 8, 1999. Posted 11/02/99 (W-SN397283). (0306)

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