Clinical Assessment, Reporting, and Tracking System for Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories (CART-CL) Services

Clinical Assessment, Reporting, and Tracking System for

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories (CART-CL) Services

VA118-12-R-0037

Questions and Answers

11/29/2011



1) Are there plans to move the response date beyond December 5th?

Answer: As stated in the solicitation, SF 1449, Block 8, proposals are due December 9, 2011 at 12:00PM (EST).

2) Is it possible for the contractor to perform at their own facilities (remotely to Denver) or does the contractor have to be physically located in Denver?

Answer: Due to programmatic issues to include active /real-time clinical service, patient safety and quality surveillance, the contractor performance shall be at VA facilities located in CART Program Offices, Denver VAMC (Denver CO, 80220).

3) Reference: Proposal Submission Instructions, Introduction, Veterans Involvement Evaluation. Question: Please confirm the solicitation is for 100% total small business.

Answer: Yes, as stated in the solicitation, SF 1449, Block 10, this acquisition is 100% small business set-aside.

4) Reference: Proposal Submission Instructions, Introduction, Veterans Involvement Evaluation. Question: Does Veterans involvements provide the priority for evaluation?

Answer: See E.7 Basis of Award of the solicitation.

5) Is there more information on the current system? Database schema, what programming languages the current tools are implemented?

Answer: No. Information on the current system is provided in Section D, Attachment CART CL System Identification.

6) RFP states Offerors are encouraged to register in vendor portal. Is vendor portal different from SBA?

Answer: This was an error and the following sentence is removed from the solicitation, "Offerors are encouraged to register for the Vendor Portal in order to ensure timely transmission of their proposals to the Government."

7) Is there any way that this opportunity can be funded through the TRANSFORMATION TWENTY-ONE TOTAL TECHNOLOGY also known as (T4)?



Answer: No.

8) On the Q&A, you were asked if you would consider a solution that starts fresh with new technology, and you answered "Yes, but the solution must meet all requirements and work must begin January 1, 2011." Do you mean that the contractor's work must begin January 1st to configure this "fresh start", or that the CART-CL must be operational by January 1st with all Interfaces built? If work must begin January 1st, how long until CART-CL must be operational to be deployed into the VA?

Answer: The solution must meet all requirements of the Performance Work Statement and work must begin January 1, 2011. CART is fully deployed and operational 24/7 at all active VA cath labs

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 260 Industrial Way West, Eatontown, NJ 07724 intends to issue a solicitation on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) page for upgrades, maintenance and support of the Clinical Assessment, Reporting, and Tracking System for Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories (CART-CL) system. This system is a standalone application which fully integrates with the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS). This system enables providers to reuse and annotate existing Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VISTA)/CPRS data such as vitals, medications, labs and problems and enter additional discrete and textual data for assessment, diagnostic procedures and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) interventions in the catheterization lab. CART-CL was mandated to be a national program for use in all 78 catheterization laboratories in VA systems by the Deputy Undersecretary for Health and is a unique collaborative effort involving Patient Care Services. The period of performance consists of a 12-month base period with two, 12-month option periods. Contract performance will being on January 1, 2012.



This solicitation will be issued as a 100% Small Business Set-Aside. The North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) for this effort is 541512.



The acquisition will be competed using Simplified Acquisition Procedures. VA anticipates releasing the solicitation on or about November 21, 2011. The notification shall expire on or about December 5, 2011 at 4:00pm (EST). Please continue to monitor this FBO announcement for the release of the solicitation. Questions/responses shall be submitted to the contract specialist at iris.farrell@va.gov. The Points of Contact (POCs) for this action are Iris Farrell, Contract Specialist and Anne Marie Vasconcelos, Contracting Officer, anne.vasconcelos@va.gov.

Clinical Assessment, Reporting, and Tracking System for

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories (CART-CL) Services

VA118-12-R-0037



1. Who is the incumbent for this contract?

Answer: I-Com International Inc, 2718 Linden Drive, Boulder, CO 80340

2. You mention that we need to maintain the "EXISTING CART-CL CATH/PCI Applications and databases." Who built these existing databases?

Answer: I-Com International has been building the CART-CL application for 8 years. The application consists of user interfaces for entering and displaying data in real time (installed at all 76 active of the VA's catheterization labs and operational 24/7) fully integrated with the VA's VistA/CPRS system (relying upon VISTA RPC interfaces and soon to be migrated to the new VA MDWS RPC broker replacement for RPC). The application also interfaces with the VA DSS workload and costing system.

3. Would you consider a solution that "starts fresh" with new technology, if that vendor can fulfill of the requirements and import all previous data into the system?

Answer: Yes, but the solution must meet all requirements of the Performance Work Statement and work must begin January 1, 2011. CART is fully deployed and operational 24/7 at all active VA cath labs