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R -- SNOMED INTERNATIONAL AND RELATED SERVICES SOL RFP NLM 00-207/SLC POC Sharon Cummings 30l/496-6546 E-MAIL: Click here to contact Sharon Cummings via e-mail, sharon_cummings@nlm.nih.gov. SNOMED INTERNATIONAL AND RELATED SERVICES. It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine, acting on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Defense, and other Federal agencies to negotiate on a sole source basis pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(a) and U.S.C. 253(c)(1) with the SNOMED (College of American Pathologists registered trademark) International Division of the College of American Pathologists, a not-for-profit Illinois corporation at 325 Waukegan Road, Northfield, Illinois 60093-2750, for a five-year cost-reimbursable contract, with options for additional effort within each year. The contract will provide a license for U.S. Federal government agencies, state and local governments, and private organizations that exchange health data with government agencies to use SNOMED International (current version and all new versions released during the life of the contract) and supporting vocabulary expansion, maintenance, and distribution services. SNOMED International is a comprehensive, multi-axial, controlled terminology suitable for use in patient, public health, and health research data. SNOMED International is a proprietary product of the College of American Pathologists, which has developed successive versions of the terminology over the past 40 years. It is included in the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus. (National Library of Medicine registered trademarks). In several independent tests and evaluations, including the 1996/7 Large-Scale Vocabulary Test sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (then the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) and other studies conducted by the Computer-Based Patient Record Institute, SNOMED International was identified as the most comprehensive structured and controlled clinical terminology available in the English language. These studies also showed that the United Kingdom's National Health Service Clinical Terms (formerly known as the Read Codes) covered a similar, but slightly lower percentage of clinical concepts and, in some respects, provided coverage that was complementary to that of SNOMED International. Since these studies were done, the College of American Pathologists and the U.K. National Health Service have entered into an agreement and begun a project to merge the two systems into a single new work. The College of American Pathologists is directing this project. Various Federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control, the Health Care Financing Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the Veterans Administration, have determined that SNOMED International can assist in improving the quality of patient, public health, and health research data that Federal agencies create, collect, exchange, or analyze, both within the Federal government and in conjunction with state and local governments or private organizations. Because SNOMED International is unique and is proprietary product of the College of American Pathologists, NLM has determined that the College of American Pathologists is the only source capable of providing the necessary services. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by the National Library of Medicine. This notice of intent is not a Request for Proposals (RFP), nor is an RFP available. See Numbered Notes 22 and 26. Posted 03/03/00 (W-SN430683). (0063)

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