SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- VistA Maintenance and Expertise Center (VMEC)
- Notice Date
- 4/9/2002
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs, Acquisition Operations and Analysis Service, (049A3), , 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, District Of Columbia 20420
- ZIP Code
- 20420
- Solicitation Number
- VA-SNOTE-020409-001
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization will host an industry day for the VA's upcoming Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VISTA) acquisition. All small and large businesses interested in this acquisition are encouraged to attend this important event. The VISTA Industry Day will be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2002, beginning at 1:00 p.m., Eastern Time, at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Building, 4400 Fair Oaks Court, Fairfax, VA 22033-3899. The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) will host this event for VA. It is the intent of the VISTA Industry Day to bring both small and large businesses together to hear from the Contracting Officer and Senior Program Officials about the VISTA acquisition, including tentative milestones for this acquisition as well as providing firms in attendance with an opportunity for interactive discussions with program officials and to network and explore teaming and subcontracting arrangements with other potential vendors. The VISTA Acquisition will be issued as two separate solicitations. The first solicitation will cover all requirements, excluding the imaging requirements, and will be issued using full and open competition. Imaging requirements will be issued as under a separate solicitation as a total small business set-aside. VA's Chief Information Office introduced VISTA in 1996. It is a rich, automated environment that supports day-to-day operations at local VA health care facilities. VISTA is built on a client-server architecture, which ties together workstations and personal computers with graphical user interfaces at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities, as well as software developed by local medical facility staff. VISTA also includes the links that allow commercial off-the-shelf software and products to be used with existing and future technologies. The Decision Support System (DSS) and other national databases that might be derived from locally generated data lie outside the scope of VISTA. When development began on the Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP) in the early 1980s, information systems were in their infancy in VA medical facilities and emphasized primarily hospital-based activities. DHCP grew rapidly and is used by many private and public health care facilities throughout the United States and the world. Although DHCP represented the total automation activity at most VA medical centers in 1985, DHCP is now only one part of the overall information resources at the local facility level. VISTA incorporates all of the benefits of DHCP as well as including the rich array of other information resources that are becoming vital to the day-to-day operations at VA medical facilities. It represents the culmination of DHCP's evolution and metamorphosis into a new, open system, client-server based environment that takes full advantage of commercial solutions, including those provided by Internet technologies. More information can be obtained on VISTA at the following URL address: www.va.gov/vista_monograph. Directions to AFCEA can be obtained by calling 703-631-6100. The VISTA Industry Day will be held in AFCEA Auditorium, and participants are requested to enter the Auditorium from the entrance on the side of the building. Parking is available at no charge. Participation is limited to three individuals per firm. To register for the VISTA Industry Day, please contact Mr. Ramsey Alexander, Jr., or Ms. Ilene Waggoner, Senior Procurement Analysts, telephone 202-565-8133 or 202-565-8127, respectively, or toll-free from outside the Washington Metropolitan Calling Area, at 1-800-949-8387.
- Web Link
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Dept of Veteran Affairs Office of Acquisition and Materiel Management Business Opportunities System
(http://www.bos.oamm.va.gov/)
- Record
- SN00055581-W 20020411/020410063512 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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