ADDED: SYNOPSIS IS CANCELED. The VA Health Care Upstate Western New York Healthcare System, VISN 2 Network Contracting Office, intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for The resulting contract will be a firm fixed price contract for a VISN-wide Term License and shall include all labor, material, tools, equipment, training, software/software license, and all associated hardware required to furnish and install the healthcare analytics software. The contractor shall also provide five years of support for the system, which shall include periodic updates to the software, hosting / infrastructure, and professional services (data warehouse maintenance, server & database administration, analytics support, basic user support, and data standardization support). In conjunction with the healthcare analytics software provided under this contract, VISN 2 intends to install an Anesthesia Record Keeper (ARK) and / or Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Clinical Information System (CIS). The Government intends to award a single firm fixed price contract for this requirement with a base year plus four one-year option periods in accordance with FAR Part 12 and FAR Part 13. The solicitation with any and all pertinent information will be published on the FBO website. Proposals will be due 15 days after posting of the solicitation and the resulting contract will be awarded no later than September 30, 2013. The applicable NAICS for this acquisition is 511210 with a business size standard of $25 million. No other information is available until issuance of the solicitation. Phones calls will not be accepted.

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