USA Materiel Command Acqiuisition Center, Yuma Proving Ground Contracts Division, ATTN: AMSSB-ACY/Bldg. 2100, Yuma, AZ 85365-9106

A -- VIRTUAL RADIOLOGY ENVIRONMENT META-MANAGER ADVANCED FEATURES SOL DAAD01-00-R-0001 DUE 111599 POC Becci Larson, Contract Administrator (520) 32806163 E-MAIL: Becci.Larson@Yuma-exch1.army.mil, Becci.Larson@Yuma-exch1.army.mil. Sole source. The United States Army Yuma Proving Ground (USAYPG), Arizona, intends to negotiate with the University of Arizona (U of A), Sponsored Projects Services, Post Office Box 44390, Tucson, AZ 85733-4390 to research and develop advanced features for the Meta Manager in the Virtual Radiology environment. The Great Plains Regional Medical Command (GPRMC) has developed the next generation of virtual radiology environment (VRE) for the Army. The purpose of the VRE project is to provide a seamless and virtual radiology department among ten hospitals sites initially. The development of the hierarchical intelligent controller, called the Meta-manager, will manage the VRE operations and control functions. The Meta-Manager specifications and prototype has been developed by the Computer Engineering Research Laboratory at the U of A, and Objective 1 developed the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standards . This specification has been developed by 5 years of research under prior U of A contracts and addresses Objective 2, the advanced features of the Meta-Manager and the VRE system that will be negotiated for research and development under this action. All requests for this action must be received within 30 days of publication of this notice and shall include the following information. (1) Solicitation number, (2) documentation demonstrating your firm possesses an understanding of the VRE concepts and the Meta-Manager functions and operations, (3) documentation showing your firm possesses the background and capability to research and develop the advanced Meta-Manager features, (4) your complete mailing address, (5) point of contact, (6) phone number, (7) your facsimile number and (8) business size. You may facsimile your request and information to (520) 328-6849 or call (520) 328-6163. Award of this action may be made after 45 days of publication of this notice. Objective 2 will address advanced features such as: (1) Automatic notification for physicians, (2) Smart routing policy, (3) Intelligent load balancing and scheduling, (4) Measure radiologist reading velocities, (5) Fail-safe and persistent fault tolerance, (6) Reconfigurable Meta-Manager architectures, (7) Interface to the MDIS PACS network, Creation of and individual preference for clinical use, (8) Network-based communications for Physician notification of results, and (9) centralized or decentralized voice recognition transcription services. Posted 09/21/99 (W-SN382772). (0264)

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