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Request for Information Genomic Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Phase II

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* = Required Field FedBizOpps Sources Sought Notice Rev. March 2010 D Genomic LIMS Phase II 07724 36C10B18R2933 07-10-2018 N 541519 Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center 23 Christopher Way Eatontown NJ 07724 Derek Maselli, Contract Specialist:

derek.maselli@va.gov Introduction

This Request for Information (RFI) is issued for market research and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation nor does it restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Any contract that might be awarded based on information received or derived from this market research will be the outcome of a competitive process. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) is 541512, Computer System Design Services.

The purpose of this RFI is to identify qualified contractors who are able to meet the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requirements, determine the appropriate contract type i.e., firm fixed-price or cost-reimbursement or time and material, understand commercial pricing practices and other market information readily available.

Background

The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information & Technology (OI&T), VHA Innovation Program is to provide benefits and services to Veterans of the United States. In meeting these goals, OI&T strives to provide high quality, effective, and efficient Information Technology (IT) services to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of-care as well as throughout all the points of the Veterans’ health care in an effective, timely and compassionate manner. VA depends on Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) systems to meet mission goals.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, the VA Innovation Project identified the VA Laboratory Systems Re-engineering Project’s (LSRP) Cerner Helix module and Reference Lab Network (RLN) as solutions that could provide genomics order/results workflow management, genomics instrument connectivity and commercial reference laboratory connectivity that the Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) is incapable of processing and managing today.

Current VistA laboratory functionality is incapable of handling the pre-analytical data generated by molecular instrumentation currently in operation at VA genomic testing laboratories. These molecular analyzers have limited storage, access and transport capacity requiring VA genomic laboratories to purge data to function properly. LSRP’s Cerner’s Helix module provides the required molecular instrument connectivity to interface with these analyzers, store the data sent by the analyzers, manage and data mine the patient’s historical data as well as receive and process molecular orders and results required by VA genomic laboratories. The Cerner RLN will manage the connection to the seven VA genomic laboratories and the Mobile Applications Environment (MAE) (via Vitria – not direct connection) enabling orders and specimen results to pass to and from VistA. Clinicians will use VistA to view genomic data, manage data reporting analysis and test results.

Genomics LIMS Phase I was completed in December 2017. There were three tasks completed in this phase:

The Cerner RLN connection was established, to allow the VA genomic labs to send reference lab procedure order HL7 messages to ARUP, Quest and LabCorp and receive test result HL7 messages. The Helix proof of concept at VAMC Tampa, FL demonstrated the capability for automating select molecular test workflows and interfacing to select molecular instrumentation utilizing the Millennium Helix software deployed on a temporary non-production Cerner Remote Hosted database. The Helix proof of concept allows for communication protocols and enhanced workflows to be implemented.

Phase II will develop the full Millennium Helix solution, based on the prototype, and deploy it to the all the genomic labs. The Millennium Helix prototype is hosted in an external cloud environment to validate the proof of concept in a production environment. Phase II involves the transfer of the Millennium Helix license from the Tampa, FL VAMC non-production environment to the Tampa production environment, configuring all the genomic labs to operate in a Millennium Helix single domain with the transferred license from Huntington, WV and implementation of Cerner Millennium Helix and the RLN. Phase II implementation is to configure and integrate the RLN connection and instrument interfaces to all labs into a single domain.

Requirements

Please see the attached DRAFT Performance Work Statement for the more detailed draft responses. The Contractor shall transfer the Millennium Helix license from the Tampa, FL VAMC non-production environment to the Tampa, FL VAMC production environment and validate the Tampa VAMC genomic laboratory is capable of Millennium Helix operation and access.

After solution is tested and accepted at the Tampa location the Contractor shall deploy the Cerner Millennium Helix capabilities and services to the other six VA genomic laboratories; Washington D.C., West Haven, Little Rock, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Los Angeles. The Contractor shall configure the Tampa, FL facility and the other VAMC genomic facilities to operate in a Millennium Helix single domain.

The deployment and implementation to the genomic facilities shall include an Enterprise Standard Design to allow for reuse to other laboratories. The Tampa build shall be leveraged for roll out of the remaining laboratories. Additional build, design and localization, as appropriate, shall be performed for those laboratories that differ in their instrumentation inventory. The Contractor shall provide and maintain monthly progress and on-boarding requirement reports, remote hosting, technical support, system security, network connectivity, application support, testing, capacity planning and operations and maintenance as well as setup and installation of the solution.

Submittal Information

This is a RFI only. It is requested that all companies interested in participating in this effort note their interest and provide indication of their respective capabilities to perform the effort described in the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS), titled Genomic Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Phase II. Promotional material will not be accepted as an indication of capability. Companies must provide description of actual work performed that is relevant to the task areas in the attached PWS. Based on extensive market research conducted to date, although VA has identified some companies that can perform implementation services on some Cerner products, no vendors have been identified that can access Cerner’s Spaces platform or RLN due to proprietary constraints. Access to the existing platform and RLN is critical and necessary to perform the development and implementation services required under Phase II. As a result, respondents shall include the following information with their submission:

1. Capabilities/Qualifications (3 pages) – Description of the capabilities/qualifications/skills your company possesses to perform the work.

2. Other Market Information (1 page) – Provide confirmation from Cerner that an outside firm will be allowed to support the changes to its commercial product required by this PWS. Please provide confirmation that an outside firm will have the required access to the Cerner Spaces platform and Cerner Works domain as well as the ability to provide a connection to the RLN.

Please provide your responses to the above no later than 12PM on July 6, 2018 via email to derek.maselli@va.gov. If you have any questions, please contact Derek Maselli, Contract Specialist via email or at 732-440-9718.