Department of Veterans Affairs, National Acquisition Center, P.O. Box 76, Bldg. 37, Hines, IL 60141-0076

65 -- PATIENT MEDICATION INFORMATION DATABASE DUE 041000 POC Ruth Fulton, (708) 786-4943 WEB: no solicitation issued, http://www.va.gov/oa&mm/busopp/so.htm. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, ruth.fulton@med.va.gov. The department of Veterans Affairs (VA) desires to procure patient medication information (PMI) database with updates. VA medical centers will use the patient medication information to print the medication information inserts, which are provided to patients with their prescriptions. VA intends to incorporate the PMI database into the VA National Drug File database (NDF) that is accessed by VA facilities throughout the country using the VISTA network. The VA's requirement is for the PMI database only. VA will develop the software to read the PMI database and subsequnt updates to the NDF database. This database will be further accessed by the individual VA sites. Access to the PMI database by the individual sites will be limited to reviewing and printing of the patient medication information. VA would like to schedule meetings with interested firms during the week of April 17 thru 21, 2000. If you are interested in presenting your product to VA's Pharmacy Benefit Management group, please contact Ruth Fulton, Contracting Officer at (708) 786-4943 or Bob Satterfield, Team Leader at (708) 786-4945 to set up an appointment Posted 03/21/00 (W-SN436546). (0081)

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