Notice ID: 36C10B23R0031
Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)’s Real Time Location System (RTLS) Program affects areas of clinical and administrative workflows by providing process improvement and automation efficiency. Significant potential uses and benefits of this technology throughout VA are numerous and include improved quality of patient care and satisfaction, reduced health care asset management costs, improved capacity/resource planning, improved employee, and patient safety, and improved general asset management and inventory.
RTLS is a System of Systems that integrates location data from multiple applications. The RTLS applications are deployed to more than 225 VA medical centers and Community-Based Outpatient Clinics. Current installations use proprietary CenTrak and Infor Location-Based Intelligence (LBI) software for tagging, tracking, and integration into a single database. CenTrak® proprietary active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) hardware and software provide zonal, room-level, and within-room level accuracy regarding asset location, staff location, patient location, as well as environmental variables.
VHA now seeks to implement the following RTLS application based on the same platforms at VA Long Beach Healthcare System:
- Asset Tracking (AT) to monitor the location of assets within a facility.
SCOPE OF WORK
This PWS establishes the requirements for Information Technology (IT) services, hardware, and software to implement CenTrak and Infor LBI-based Asset Tracking (AT) at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System. The Contractor shall provide RTLS hardware, software, documentation, and services to authorized users in VHA. Services include installation, end user acceptance testing, training, warranty services, engineering, and professional services. The scope of this order shall include completion of implementation already started and expansion of current inactive system at VA Long Beach Healthcare System. Facility specifications for the areas in scope are included in Attachment 1 (RTLS In Scope Buildings) and Attachment 2 (Floor Plans) for RTLS.
