Department of Veteran Affairs Columbia VA Medical Center On-line Patient Point of Care Subscription Services

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office (NCO) 15 intends to release a commercial solicitation for an existing commercial off the shelf web based, Point of Care Clinical Knowledge Product that will be made available to unlimited number of users in the VA Kansas City Health Care System and its associated Community Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs).

This acquisition shall be Set Aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 519130. The size standard is 1,000 employees.

All other details will be included in the Request for Quotation (RFQ), which will be released on January 5th 2018 with a deadline for response of January 12th 2018, No Later Than (NLT) 1:00 PM EST. Questions and quotes shall be submitted via email referencing the solicitation number 36C25518Q0164 Online Point of Care in the subject line to larry.zaritz@va.gov.

All amendments, any other information pertaining to this solicitation, and answers to the submitted questions will be posted on the FedBizOpps website at www.fbo.gov.

Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) must have a Verified status in the VIP database (https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov/). Non-VIP verified firms will be considered non-responsive and ineligible for award. Contractor shall be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) in order to receive a contract award. Contractors may access SAM at https://www.sam.gov.

Point of Contact for this RFQ is Larry Zaritz at larry.zaritz@va.gov.

The NCO (15) address is: VA Heartland Network 15, Network Contracting Office, 3450 S. 4th Street Trafficway, Leavenworth, KS 66048.