Contracting Officer, RLR VA Medical Center, 1481 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202

70 -- HES SOFTWARE SOL 583-64-98 DUE 070898 POC Joyce Miller, 317-554-0207 The Richard L. Roudebush VAMC intends to negotiate with Synquest Technologies Two Hannover Square, 434 Fayetteville St. #2330, Releigh, NC 27601 for the purchase of Networked Healthcare Education System software with authoring extension kit and continuous care plan. Network implementation for 6500 users, 21 CBT courses. Software must be written in Visual Basic, supporting either an ACCESS or an ODBC Compliant Database. Software must include the ability to schedule employees individually or by job title, job category, employee group, or employee team. Software must include the ability to schedule classroom, instructors, equipment, seminars and CBT training; pre-register students, record attendance; and allow for on-site text, graphic and audio customizations at no additional charge. Furthermore, this software shall be able to generate a variety of reports (60+) and provide a report documenting employee clock-hours. The software must have the ability to create a variety of tests to include: True/False, multiple choice or multiple image tests question, the ability to edit feed back for both correct and incorrect answers, the ability to randomize test questions and answers, the ability to create a test bank of questions and the ability to select certain questions in the test bank as mandatory. This software must also have the ability to construct custom course evaluations. This software must have a utilities program to allow for: 1) Electronic importing of employee data in an ASCII delimited format; 2) Electronic importing of department data in an ASCII delimited format; and 3) Database maintenance such as merge, purge, backup, and restore data. This software must also provide a customizable, easy-to-use setup program to facilitate the installation of the program on client PCs. This software license must provide: 1) system-wide loading of the software on DHCP (VA mainframe); 2) system-wide distributions of the program's audio files; 3) must provide access to an Authoring-exchange Internet Web forum. In addition, the software company will provide: 1) annual training for VA employees on the software package; 2) annual upgrades to the course management system (software) and manuals; 3) annual upgrades to current courses; 4) delivery of new mandatory and safety courses released during the previous year; 5) unlimited technical and customer support via a toll-free telephone number and Web site; and 6) provide a one-year (1) warranty on the software package. Authoring Kit must use multimedia toolbook as the development tool to provide a software license and any necessary software, training, and manuals that allows the VAMC staff to design and implement computer-based training courses/modules and/or computer-based tests for topics that are critical and unique to the VA medical system without having to send the modules back to a vendor for development. All interested concerns must identify their interest in writing and fully document their capability to meet the agency's requirements by forwarding a detailed response by July 8, 1998 COB. All responses must be in writing or may be faxed to 317-554-0200. All proposals from responsible sources will be considered. SIC Code 7379 applies. (0168)

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