SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- VISN 23 MEDICAL CODING
- Notice Date
- 11/15/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 561110
— Office Administrative Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;VA Midwest Health Care System;Attention: Network Contract Manager;One Veterans Drive, Building 68;Minneapolis MN 55417
- ZIP Code
- 55417
- Solicitation Number
- VA-263-08-RP-0084
- Response Due
- 12/15/2007
- Archive Date
- 1/14/2008
- Point of Contact
- Michael Owen Contract Specialist 612-467-2190
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Contracting Officer
(michael.owen@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
- Description
- RFP VA263-08-RP-0084 Issued November 15, 2007 Due Date December 17, 2007 Provide professional medical coding services Provide professional medical coding services of for discharges to include all 401, 501, 601, and 701 screens for Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 23 facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska in an on-demand, as-needed basis in accordance with the Requirements and Statement of Work. The Contractor may be required to provide medical coding services to VISN 23 facilities not currently listed in the Requirements section of the solicitation. 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/BPA is intended to be a Commercial Item contract with estimated quantities. Base Period 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 coding services. Quality of work to be determined by the Contracting Officer Technical Representative at each VISN 23 Medical Center, 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 Medical Centers that is confidential and constitutes valuable, special, and unique property of the Government. Successful contractor will be required to complete or have completed all security clearance paperwork prior to beginning work or may provide appropriate documents attesting to security clearances for their employees. Successful contractor shall be required to execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). 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, encounter/discharge information or treatments. The VA 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 records and information. The Government will award the contract/BPA 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. Best Value is a determination that if it is to the advantage of the Government price maybe traded-off against technical capability. 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 plan in place. 2. Past performance; 3. Price; and price related factors; Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than cost or price. NAICS 561110 $6.5M. Solicitation documents available November 15, 2007 with offers due December 17, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. CT. Contract effective date estimated to be January 15, 2008. Base period is from date of award through September 30, 2008 with four (4) full option years. If the successful offeror has an existing government contract the resulting agreement shall take the form of a BPA. In whatever form this contract/BPA shall expire 9/30/2012 unless the supporting contract expires sooner. Written documents must be submitted; electronic or facsimile responses will not be accepted. Download solicitation documents from www.fbo.gov Send or deliver completed offers to Contracting Officer: Michael Owen, VISN 23 Contracting and Purchasing Office (90C) VA Medical Center - Bldg 68, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417. INQUIRIES: NO telephone calls. After prospective offerors have downloaded and read the solicitation documents questions will be entertained in only writing by e-mail to michael.owen@va.gov.
- Place of Performance
- Address: ONE VETERANS DRIVE
- Zip Code: 55417
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 55417
- Record
- SN01453000-W 20071117/071115224300 (fbodaily.com)
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