DA01-- IR HTM 003 37h- Parable Interface- 22REQ2008h

The Department of Veterans Affairs intends to solicit and negotiate a Sole Source, Firm-Fixed-Price Purchase Order with one Small Business source, Parable Healthcare, Inc. This procurement will provide professional service hours to develop a Health Level 7 (HL7) interface between the Veterans Affairs Parable to Cerner Millennium. Additional professional service hours are needed to include information security services for an authority to operate. The Parable Wound Care System is currently in use at several Veterans Affairs Medical Centers for use in wound care documentation and tracking of healing. The solution operates using an iOS device to take images of wounds and then clinicians document their observations via the national Parable application solution. The period of performance is 12 Months. The North American Industry Classification (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541511. Parable Healthcare, Inc. is a small business with an active registration in SAM. This procurement will be made under the authority of Other Than Full and Open Competition as authorized by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 and 41 U.S.C.3304(a)(1). The vendor shall provide software configuration, implementation, and testing in support of connecting the new Cerner EMR to the existing Parable National Solution used in Puget Sound. In addition, the vendor shall provide information security services to remediate vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with VA security policies in order to operate on the VA network. The software and configuration services can only be provided by the system developer, Parable Health, Inc. This notice satisfies the requirement at FAR 5.201(b)(1), to publicize the proposed contract action. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation will be made available. Any responses received will only be considered for the purposes of determining the marketplace for future procurements. The Government will not pay for information submitted. This will be the only notice of the Government s intent to solicit, negotiate, and award to one source to satisfy this requirement.