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

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION AND ROLLOUT SOL 541-025-00 DUE 011400 POC Garry Plear, (440)838-6028 The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center intends to solicit offers for (ITS) Information Technology System,Implementation and Rollout Process on behalf of the Chief Information Office (CIO) National Training & Education of Office (NT&EO) of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This is a Commercial Items Procurement in accordance with instructions prescribed in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 and Part 15. The following evaluation factors which are equal in weight will apply: 1)Offeror Capability with the following Sub-factors: a)Technical excellence, b)Experience, c) Management Capability, d)Quality Assurance, 2)Past Performance 3)Price. Sub-factors listed below the evaluation factors are equal in weight. This solicitation is set-aside 100% for small business concerns. The SIC for this procurement is 7379. The small business size standard is $18.0 Million. Requests for solicitations must be in writing and must contain the following: Company Name,Address,Telephone and Fax Numbers and Point of Contact. Solicitations will be available on or about December 29, 1999. Facsimile requests for solicitations will be accepted at (440)838-6052. The point of contact is Garry Plear. Proposals are due not later than January 14, 2000 at 2:00pm local time (Eastern Standard Time). Absolutely No Facsimile Proposals will be accepted. Posted 12/28/99 (W-SN411779). (0362)

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