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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF AUGUST 10, 2007 FBO #2083
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- Medical Transcription Services for Mpls VAMC

Notice Date

8/8/2007
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

561410 — Document Preparation Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;VA Midwest Health Care System;Attention: Network Contract Manager;One Veterans Drive, Building 68;Minneapolis MN 55417
 

ZIP Code

55417
 

Solicitation Number

VA-263-07-RP-0095
 

Response Due

9/10/2007
 

Archive Date

10/10/2007
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
 

Description

VA263-07-RP-0095 Issued: August 9, 2007 Offers Due: September 10, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. CT Provide professional medical transcription services for the VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN in an on-demand, as-needed basis in accordance with the Specifications. Additionally, the Contractor may be required to provide periodic medical transcription services, in accordance with Specifications, for the VA Medical Center, St. Cloud, MN, in the event the St. Cloud VA staff should experience a turn around time of greater then 3 days. The Minneapolis VA Medical Center uses Dictaphone equipment. Annual estimate is: 3,000,000 lines (for Minneapolis only). The successful offeror will be required to meet computer security requirements and will utilize the VA Virtual Private Network (VPN). The successful offeror will perform the requirements of this contract at his/her facility and will not be provided Government space or property, except VPN software required. The resultant contract is intended to be a Commercial Item/Performance Based contract with estimated quantities. Base Year and Option Years shall not exceed a total of five [5] years. The contractor shall furnish all labor, equipment, material, facilities, and all incidentals necessary to provide Medical Transcription services. Quality of work to be determined by the Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) at the appropriate VA Medical Center. Moving this work off-shore (outside of United States borders) is prohibited. Confidentiality: Contractor will have access to certain information from the VA Medical Center that is confidential and constitutes valuable, special, and unique property of the Government. Contractor shall not, at any time either during or subsequent to the term of the contract, disclose to others, use, copy or permit to be copied any confidential information which concerns patients, costs, or treatment methods. The VA Medical Center will be releasing or disclosing patient-identifiable information to the Contractor in the course of providing services to the VA pursuant to this contract. The Government shall retain title and ownership of all medical records, all information provided. The Government intends to award the contract resulting from this solicitation to one (1) responsible offeror whose offer, conforming to the solicitation, will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers and are listed in descending order of importance: 1. Technical capability of services offered to meet the Government requirements; a) Technical Capability and Quality of Offeror's Facility b) Evidence of qualified personnel to service this contract c) Management Capabilities and Approach Methodology d) Quality Assurance. 2. Past performance; 3. Price; and price related factors; Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than cost or price. NAICS 561410. Solicitation documents available August 9, 2007 with offers due September 10, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. CT. Written offers must be sent (or delivered) by the date and time due. Late arriving offers will be rejected. Contract effective period estimated to be October 1, 2007 (or as soon thereafter as practical) through September 30, 2008, with four (4) full option years. Written documents must be submitted; electronic or facsimile responses will NOT be accepted. Solicitation documents can be download from www.fbo.gov. The Department of Veterans Affairs is currently implementing a Department-wide standardization program. As a result, VA is issuing National Consolidated Contract(s) / BPAs for standardized items and services. In the future, when any item or service in this contract is standardized under any National Consolidated Contract or BPA, the itemor service will be deleted from this contract 30 days after written notice from the Contracting Officer. Should this standardization be implemented before the date offers are due this solicitation shall be cancelled. This solicitation is set-aside 100% for Service-disabled Veteran-owned Small Businesses in accordance with the Veterans First Contracting Program and PL 109-461 at 38 U.S.C. §§ 8127 and 8128. Registration in VetBiz.gov Vendor Information Pages (VIP) Database. In addition to registering in the Central Contractor Registration, all VOSBs, including all SDVOSBs, must be registered in the VetBiz.gov VIP database, at www.VetBiz.gov. Contracting Officers cannot award a contract under the authority of 38 U.S.C. § 8127 unless they have confirmed the business is registered in the database. Vendors need not be registered at the time of submission of offers; however no award can be made under this authority unless the business is properly registered.
 

Place of Performance

Address: ONE VETERANS DRIVE

Zip Code: 55417

Country: US
 

Record

SN01365777-W 20070810/070808220938 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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