Q301--NOTICEPoint of Care Testing Data Management System Upgrade -

**NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE** This is a Notice of Intent to Sole Source published in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.101(a)(1) requiring the dissemination of information regarding proposed contract actions. This Notice of Intent is for a proposed award of an open market sole source award for VISN 5 requirements for a system hardware/software upgrade to the existing Point of Care (POC) testing data management system, UniPOC to support the Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 5.

The proposed award POC testing data management system will provide an interface between Point of Care Device and the Laboratory Information System through HL7 messaging and includes download site licensing the analyzers, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b); Soliciting from a single source. Only Siemens Healthineers is capable of providing the required service, per the Sole Source Letter received from Siemens. The role of UniPOC is to manage point of care devices, veteran personally identifiable information and associated lab test results in a secure compliant integration with IT infrastructure. Test results are charted to CPRS through HL7 messaging. This SOW is to provide information for an HL7 interfaced module for Medtronic ACT 500, Abbott Precision Xceed Pro, Abbott i-STAT, PxP Glucometer. The term of service shall be 7/1/2022 to 6/30/2025 (Base + 2 Years). Specific services to be provided include: The current UniPOC hardware consists of three Windows 2019 servers and one Windows 2016 server located at Baltimore running version 1.6. Servers should be updated to this version of operating system or greater depending on current vendor compatibility and come with the most recent application version released for UniPOC. Vendor is also to provide WRX module for use within VISN 5 facilities. Vendor is to provide full migration of existing data from current VISN 5 UniPOC instance located at Baltimore and VA Beckley data located at VA Richmond UniPOC instance. The software shall be specific for current and future instrumentation used for laboratory POC testing. The vendor shall install all needed instrument management files and drivers to current standards and regulations necessary for interfacing patient data to CPRS/VISTA. The vendor shall also support future migrations to Cerner. This statement of work does require the contractor to have access to VA sensitive information such as IP addresses and network information and may require the contractor to encounter patient information. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this service is 513210 Software Publisher. Product Service Code (PSC) is H370 (Software, Supplies and Support Equipment.

While this synopsis does not constitute a solicitation, interested vendors may identify their interest and capability to satisfy the requirement. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, which shall be considered by the agency, by emailing such statement and supporting documentation by NLT 5:00 PM Eastern Time (ET), 02/15/2023 to Keysha Gorman, Contract Specialist, at Keysha.gorman74@va.gov . Please reference the announcement number in the subject line of the e-mail. Such documentation will be reviewed solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct the procurement on a competitive basis. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government under authorities cited above.