SOURCES SOUGHT
U -- Online Clinical Resource
- Notice Date
- 4/18/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, Oklahoma City Area Office, 701 Market Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73114, United States
- ZIP Code
- 73114
- Solicitation Number
- 246-17-Q-0021
- Point of Contact
- Katrina Eaton, Phone: 4059513704
- E-Mail Address
-
katrina.eaton@ihs.gov
(katrina.eaton@ihs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Indian Health Services is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for online real-time medical and drug information services. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 519130. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. The Indian Health Services has a requirement for online real-time medical and drug information services for their health facilities in Oklahoma Region. The Indian Health Service intends to award a firm-fixed price award for this requirement. A Statement of Work has been attached to this document. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, email address, website address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort and Statement of Work, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliant with tight program schedules; cost containment: meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation: and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract, if applicable. BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by April 25, 2017 at 4:00 PM CT. All response under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to Katrina.Eaton@ihs.gov. Statement of Work Evidence-Based Online Clinical Resource April 13, 2017 I. Introduction The Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service is in need of a license subscription for an online evidence-based clinical resource for medical and drug information. The subscription is for 2 hospitals and 9 ambulatory health care centers. The evidence-based online resource is an electronic decision support tool that provides evidence-based medical information 24 hours a day/7 days a week to support providers at the point of patient care delivery. It is also a source of drug information and provides continuing medical education credits for providers. II. Objectives The purpose is to provide real-time access (24/7) to updated medical and drug information online to the end user at the point of care delivery. The online resource shall authenticated by IP address. The online database shall also provide continuing medical education to providers. III. Period of Performance Base Year: June 1, 2017 - May 31, 2018 Option Year 1: June 1, 2018 - May 31, 2019 Option Year 2: June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2020 Place of performance: onsite and remote access IV. Scope of Work The requirement is as follows: Comprehensive Evidence-Based Online Resource that provides a point of care access and includes offsite/remote and mobile access. Vendor shall provide access to all students and staff with access to evidence-based online web-based product. Authentication of staff access shall be through IP address validation on an enterprise wide basis, reducing or eliminating the need for users to enter identification, username and/or password when the end user accesses the database from an IHS network, including remote users of VPN. The product shall be compatible with Windows and other standard web browser environments. All site content and support of the web site shall be the responsibility of the contractor. This includes tech support to the end users of the Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service. System downtime, if any, shall be minimal and the IHS project manager shall be notified when such occurs. Vendor shall provide a single point of contact (with an alternate backup) for customer service. The resource shall be an evidence-based, comprehensive, integrated differential diagnosis and treatment database intended for use at the point of care. It shall provide information in a narrative format rather than utilizing an outline or bulleted format. It shall include discussion and rationales for management of disease. Mobile access shall be available with a vendor application so that any user who is part of staff at the Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service (2 hospitals and 9 ambulatory healthcare facilities), including the Oklahoma City Area Office staff and IHS National Supply Service Center staff are able to utilize it via their personal or IHS mobile device(s). Content shall be comprehensive and include, but not be limited to: family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, cardiology, dermatology, sleep medicine, emergency medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, gynecology, infectious diseases, oncology, gastroenterology, and hospital medicine. The product shall provide clinical decision support, point of care, online databases of clinical topical articles, associated graphs, tables, and images that support the context of the written material. Additionally, it shall provide a core set of clinical resources for use by clinicians in patient care. Resources shall be accurate, authoritative, relevant and current. Authors of the content shall be well-regarded and considered to be subject matter experts in their medical specialty. The database shall provide patient level articles use by providers in discussions with patients for educational purposes. Continuing Medical Education (CME) shall be included and be certified as ACCME-accredited AMA PRA Category Continuous Medical Education (CME) points for each topic reviewed. Statistical data shall be available via automated monthly reports as well as allow for creation of additional reports accounting for all types of usage available (CME, onsite, mobile, etc.) Availability of usage statistics at an IP level is required. Navigation shall be logical, user-friendly, providing access to topics and subtopics with return of high relevance results quickly. Vendor shall offer training services for the product on an as-requested basis. Vendor shall arrange training sessions (web-based or live) to train staff of the Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service. This training may include specialized training sessions. Product shall be 508 compliant (http://www.section 508.gov/). If product is NOT 508 compliant, vendor shall describe measures being taken to bring product into compliance, the date by which this shall be done which shall need to be within 12 months of the contract award. The steps being taken to make it 508 compliant shall be described and outlined.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/IHS/IHS-Oklahoma/246-17-Q-0021/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Service shall be used at all Oklahoma City Area facilities, United States
- Record
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