SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Medical Transcription
- Notice Date
- 12/16/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Director, Acquisition & Materiel Management, (90C), One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417
- ZIP Code
- 55417
- Solicitation Number
- 618-96-04
- Response Due
- 1/16/2004
- Archive Date
- 2/15/2004
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact - Michael Owen, Contract Specialist, (612) 467-2190, Contracting Officer - Michael Owen, Contract Specialist, (612) 467-2190
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Michael Owen
(michael.owen@med.va.gov)
- Description
- Provide professional transcription services for the VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN in an on-demand, as-needed basis in accordance with the Specifications. Additionally, the Contractor may be required to provide medical transcription services, in accordance with Specifications, for the VA Medical Center, St. Cloud, MN, in the event the St. Cloud VA staff should experience a turn around time of greater then 3 days. The Minneapolis VA Medical Center uses Dictaphone equipment. The successful offeror will be required to meet computer security requirements and will utilize the VA Virtual Private Network (VPN). The successful offeror will perform the requirements of this contract at his/her facility and will not be provided Government space or property, except VPN software required. The resultant contract is intended to be a Commercial Item/Performance Based contract with estimated quantities. Base Year and Option Years shall not exceed a total of five [5] years. The contractor shall furnish all labor, equipment, material, facilities, and all incidentals necessary to provide Medical Transcription services. Quality of work to be determined by the Contracting Officer Technical Representative at the VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN. Moving this work off-shore (outside of United States borders) is prohibited. The evaluation factors are: Technical capability of the services offered to meet the Government requirement; Past performance; Price; and price related factors. Confidentiality: Contractor will have access to certain information from the VA Medical Center that is confidential and constitutes valuable, special, and unique property of the Government. Contractor shall not, at any time either during or subsequent to the term of the contract, disclose to others, use, copy or permit to be copied any confidential information which concerns patients, costs, or treatment methods. The VA Medical Center will be releasing or disclosing patient-identifiable information to the Contractor in the course of providing services to the VA pursuant to this contract. The Government shall retain title and ownership of all medical records. Reporting Requirements. As provided in specifications. The Government will award the contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer, conforming to the solicitation, will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers and are listed in descending order of importance: 1. Technical capability of services offered to meet the Government requirements; a) Technical Capability and Quality of Offeror?s Facility b) Evidence of qualified personnel to service this contract c) Management Capabilities and Approach Methodology d) Quality Assurance. 2. Past performance; 3. Price; and price related factors; Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than cost or price. NAICS 561410. Solicitation documents available December 16, 2003 with offers due January 16, 2004. Contract effective date estimated to be April 1, 2004 through March 31, 2005, with four (4) full option years. Written documents must be submitted; electronic or facsimile responses will not be accepted. Request for documents must be in writing (Contracting Officer 90C, ATTN: Michael Owen, VA Medical Center, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417), by fax to 612-725-2072, Attn: Michael Owen or you may download from www.fedbizopps.gov.
- Web Link
-
RFP 618-96-04
(http://www.bos.oamm.va.gov/solicitation?number=618-96-04)
- Record
- SN00490497-W 20031218/031216211953 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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