Q -- SLEEP DISORDER STUDIES

Notice Date

July 6, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chief, Acquisition and Materiel Management (90C), One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417

ZIP Code

55417

Solicitation Number

RFP 618-17-02

Response Due

August 10, 2002

Point of Contact

Mavis B. Nelson 612-725-2189

Description

Provide a fully accredited, equipped and staffed Sleep Disorders Center/Laboratory to evaluate cooperative/well patients with sleep disorders as referred by VA Medical Center staff to your facility; (vendors may offer alternate proposal(s) for on-site basic polysomnography at VAMC occasionally for some more ill or incapcitatied patients). Line Item pricing will include all incidental and miscellaneous costs associated with participant monitoring, i.e., standard technical operations with videotape, paper, equipment, etc. Upon referral, patient's appointment must be scheduled as soon as possible, but never to exceed a 60-day period. Line items include Basic Polysomnography, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (titration), Multiple Sleep Latency Tests, Sleep Disorders Center Education. Provide the most current and comprehensive diagnosis and recommendation for optimal management of all types of sleep disorders. The Sleep Disorders Center must be under supervision by a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (R.PSGT). The Minneapolis VA Medical Center sleep specialist will review all patient's clinical information at Contractor's sleep lab and prepare orders for laboratory study (no Contractor interpretation of sleep studies is required on a routine basis; possibly, Contractor interpretation coverage will be required in the absence of VAMC Sleep Specialist. Evaluation factors will include past performance. On-site facility evaluations will be conducted by a VAMC clinical team. Proposal documents will be available on or about July 11, 2001 and due for receipt by August 10, 2001. Requests for documents must be in writing addressed to the Contracting Officer, or by fax at 612-725-2072.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010710/QSOL007.HTM (W-187 SN50R0Q0)