MODIFICATION
R -- RECOVERY--Establish a Health Information Technology Testing Infrastructure
- Notice Date
- 4/19/2011
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-11-RP-0039
- Archive Date
- 6/29/2011
- Point of Contact
- Carol A. Wood, Phone: 301-975-8172, Michael R. Szwed, Phone: 301-975-6330
- E-Mail Address
-
carol.wood@nist.gov, michael.szwed@nist.gov
(carol.wood@nist.gov, michael.szwed@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- THIS PROJECT WILL BE FUNDED BY THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009. This pre-solicitation notice is hereby issued in accordance with the requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 5.704. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 emphasizes the need for the United States to move toward electronic health records. The legislation requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in part, to establish a Health Information Technology Testing Infrastructure (HITTI) that supports effective industry consensus standards development processes and provides the United States healthcare information technology (HIT) industry and federal activities with robust conformance and interoperability testing capabilities. NIST is responsible for leading the development of the core HITTI that will provide a scalable, multi-partner, automated, remote capability for current and future testing needs. Initial emphasis will be on testing the standards addressing high national healthcare priorities (e.g., as identified and/or defined in concept of Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology "meaningful use"). NIST will work with standards and specification development organizations and other stakeholders to ensure appropriate feedback mechanisms exist for updating the standards. The objective of the HITTI Project is to harmonize the efforts of healthcare standards test development and delivery to meet the demands for conformance and interoperability within the healthcare domain. This will be accomplished by working in collaboration with health IT stakeholders such as vendors, implementers, standards organizations, and certification bodies to establish a testing infrastructure that will: -Provide a variety of conformance and interoperability testing services; -Support a broad range of test environments; -Support numerous health data exchange standards; -Provide a component-based user interface; -Enable user customization; -Support changing user requirements; and -Provide a feedback loop to enhance the health standards. The following items are not within scope and shall not be considered part of the HITTI: -Developing standards; -Performing certifications; -Conducting operational testing. The NAICS code for this requirement is 541511 with a small business size standard of $25.0 million. Contracting by Negotiation shall be utilized under the authority of FAR Part 15. This requirement is 100% set-aside for small business. A time and materials contract is anticipated. The competitive Request for Proposal (RFP), amendments, and all questions and answers related to this procurement shall be made available via the Internet at HTTP://WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV under RFP number SB1341-11-RP-0039. Potential offerors shall be responsible for obtaining this solicitation and related Amendments, if any, from www.fbo.gov after the solicitation has been posted. It is, and will continue to be, the responsibility of each potential Offeror to monitor www.fbo.gov for any amendments or other information related to the solicitation. The Government will not maintain a mailing list. Any communication regarding this requirement must be made in writing and forwarded via email to carol.wood@nist.gov, and shall identify the solicitation number, company name, company address, as well as point of contact email address and phone number. Offerors shall be actively registered in the Central Contractor Registration website at www.ccr.gov, in order to be eligible to receive a contract under this solicitation. NIST anticipates posting the solicitation on or about May 14, 2011.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/SB1341-11-RP-0039/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Deliver to:, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02428134-W 20110421/110419234930-d968bbeaa3b619b66fcbc5108f12f22f (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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