The National Institutes of Health, Clinical Research Center is conducting a market survey/sources sought to help determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZONE small business capable of serving the needs mentioned below. This market survey/sources sought announcement is not a request for proposals and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this announcement. The information from this market research is for planning purposes only and will assist the Government in planning its acquisition strategy. This is strictly market research and the Government will not entertain questions concerning this market research. The Government will not pay for any costs incurred in the preparation of information for responding to this market survey. The National Institutes of Health objective is to provide the Clinical Center, Department of Clinical Research Informatics with Healthvision License and Technical support maintenance. The Clinical Center utilizes the Cloverleaf HL7 Interface software as its primary HL7 interface engine. The interface engine is responsible for receiving and sending clinical orders and results between the hospital information system and the ancillary services systems. This system is critical to the hospitals primary function of providing safe patient care. The CloverleafHL7 software system is proprietary to HealthVision who developed it. It is believed that HealthVision does not permit 3rd party maintenance and will not release their source code to other entities.

The Cloverleaf HL7 interface engine is responsible for receiving and sending clinical orders and results between the hospital information system and the ancillary services systems. This system is critical to the hospitals primary function of providing safe patient care. It is absolutely imperative that there be no interruption in the ongoing operation/functioning of the existing system. It is critical that the system continues to be maintained by a Contractor that is capable of providing the necessary maintenance-including making revisions to the source code as circumstances may dictate. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 51120, Size Standard - $25.0 million dollars. Interested parties must provide sufficient information to demonstrate their ability to provide the following Cloverleaf HL7 licenses and provide the maintenance support services: Production, Job Number 001556-10; Test and Dev, Job Number 001556-10; Hot Stand-by Use with Production, Job Number 001556-10; Hot Stand-by Use with Test and Dev, Job Number 001556-10; Disaster Recovery, Job Number 001556-10; and Data Integrator, Job Number 001556-10.

The vendor responses must demonstrate their expertise in ALL of the areas described above. Please note that failure to specifically demonstrate capability to provide the required services in your response to this market survey may affect the Government's review of industry's ability to perform these services. The vendor's response shall be in sufficient detail to allow the Government to assess the capability of your firm.

The vendor response shall also include any other specific and relevant information related to the requirements of this project that will enable the Government to determine the capabilities of the company to perform the specialized requirements described in this synopsis. Interested organizations must demonstrate and document in any response submitted, to this market survey extensive experience with and the ability to perform all of the specialized requirements elsewhere described.

This notice is a market survey and is for information and planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. The Government will not award a Purchase Order or Contract based upon Vendor responses to this announcement. The Government shall not assume any costs for preparing or submitting any information in response to the market survey or the Government's use of the information. Any proprietary information should be clearly identified as "proprietary information".

Vendors must send written capability responses by August 9, 2012 to the Contract Specialist at the following e-mail address [email protected]. For any questions, please contact Ms. Rieka Plugge at (301) 496-1199.

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