Solicitation: 36C26220Q0611
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), VISN 22 Network Contracting Office, is seeking sources that can provide a VISN Wide Middleware system for the various locations of the Department of Veterans Affairs: VA Long Beach, VA Greater Los Angeles, VA Loma Linda, VA San Diego, VA Albuquerque, VA Phoenix, VA Prescott, and VA Tucson Healthcare Systems.
Contractor shall provide a middleware solution for point of care (POC) testing connectivity that can transmit patient test results into the hospital’s current laboratory information system for requirements identified in Attachment A. This middleware hardware and software solution (including servers if necessary) will allow the end user to monitor patient and quality control testing done via POC and help the laboratory meet numerous accreditation requirements for POC testing. It will allow Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service (P&LMS) to accomplish its objective of backing up, storing and transmitting essential data from POC equipment into the patient electronic health record…
This software should be specific for instrumentation and processes used for laboratory POC testing. The middleware solution will be used to post patient results to the permanent record from POC test sites at each facility’s main campus and associated community-based clinics…
The Contractor shall provide updates to both the equipment hardware and software in order to maintain the integrity of the system and the state-of –the art technology, at no additional charge to the Government. These shall be provided as they become commercially available and at the same time as they are being provided to commercial customers…
System is able to support and allow for scanning of updated Veteran Health Identification Cards (VHIC) for positive patient identification at the point of testing through to the middleware solution…