Annual Maintenance

The National Institute of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC) intends to award a fixed- price purchase order to: Harris QuadraMed Corporation 12110 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 600, Reston, Virginia on a sole source basis for the annual acuity software license/support fee. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541990 and the size standard is $15.0 million dollars. The anticipated base period of performance is March 01, 2019 through February 28, 2020 with Four (4) 12 month option periods. A Fixed Priced Contract is anticipated. The Nursing Department is the nursing service within the NIH Clinical Center, the nation's largest clinical research hospital. The Nursing Department exists to provide nursing care and research support services for patients participating in clinical research studies conducted by investigators within the Intramural Research Programs at the National Institutes of Health's Bethesda campus. As integral research team members, Clinical Center nurses support the design, coordination, implementation, and dissemination of clinical research by NIH investigators, with a strong focus on patient safety, continuity of care and informed participation. Due to the fast paced often complex level of patient care required within the Clinical Center and the Institutes supported by Nursing, the need for an intensity software system to effectively track and allocate nursing resources has been identified. There is an emerging need to gain a better understanding of patient care complexity in order to most effectively utilize the Nursing Department's nursing resources in addition to extend budgetary and strategic planning capabilities. In doing so the Nursing will be able to identify and analyze trends in our patient care population and workload that will provide us the opportunity for improved productivity and the highest standard for patient care expectations. The Nursing Department relies heavily on this system for ensuring daily adequate coverage of nursing staff on the patient care units, patient care population and workload that will provide us the opportunity for improved productivity and the highest standard for patient care expectations. This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of the FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b). Period of Performance is one base year and up to four one-year option period(s.) This synopsis is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this notice. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirement and include a technical proposal, a cost-price proposal, the period of performance, the Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and the certification of business size. All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to proceed on a non-competitive basis or to conduct a competitive procurement. All responses must be received by February 20, 2019, 9:00 AM Eastern time and must reference solicitation number 19-000074. Responses may be submitted electronically to Ogochukwu Nwankwo, Contract Specialist, at Ogochukwu.nwankwo@nih.gov. Fax responses will not be accepted. "All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency."