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R -- TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES SOL 655-13-00 DUE 031000 POC Marsden, Charles, 517-497-2500, ext. 3074 E-MAIL: SAGINAW.VA.GOV, Marsden,Charles@Saginaw VA. The Department of Veteran Affairs, Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center is soliciting for a contractor to provide qualified compentent personnel, equipment, supplies, and management support to perform dictation and transcription services, including but not limited to hardware, software, utilities, tools, parts, telephone lines, materials and labor. Material transcripbed includes a high incidence of technical terminology and requires a knowledge of specialized vocabularies which will encompass a variety of sugjects in the field of medicine and surgery to include: anesthesiology, cardiology, dermatology, denistry, drug and alcohol treatment, endocrinology, general medicine, etc. The contractor's adaptation to variations in accents, speech, tone, voice volume, delivery, pronunciation and enunciation. This solicitation is issued pursuant to FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, and is advertised as a 100% Set-Aside for Small Business. The standard industry code is 7338 with a size standard of $5 milliondollars. Contract base year period will be one year from date of award with four one year options. The solicitation will be available on or about February 9, 2000. The Bid opening date is March 10, 2000, at 3:00p.m. local time. All request must be in writing. Any and all questions regarding this solicitation must be in writing and should be faxed to (517) 791-2221, attention Charles Marsden, Contracting Officer. Posted 01/26/00 (W-SN419205). (0026)

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