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This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested. The National Institute of Health, Clinical Center (CC) inten... This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for a quotation. A solicitation document will not be issued and quotations will not be requested. The National Institute of Health, Clinical Center (CC) intends to award a Firm-Fixed price purchase order to CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP, 11493 Sunset Hills RD, STE 100 Reston, Virginia 20190-5230 on a sole source basis to provide Image Exchange Services to allow uploads and sharing of images to and from patients and their provider/provider networks into the Clinical Center in support of research protocols. Scope of Work These services to include the following capabilities/functions: Cloud based storage and access provision for exams generated within the Clinical Center for use by patients and their designees, using the privacy and access platform provided by the service provider. Cloud based storage and access provision to the Clinical Center for those exams uploaded and shared to NIH Researchers and their staff using the privacy and access platform provided by the service. Please note that many of these exams are not from Clinical Center patients but are submissions for review by investigators to determine the appropriateness of the patient for inclusion in the research protocol. Some of these exams submitted will be from subjects already in a protocol and will be included as part of the continuum of care for the patient/subject. Provision of round the clock support/training for on-premises NIH research personnel who will be using the system to review submissions or uploading data from CDs submitted by the patients/subject candidates. Provision of round the clock support for patients who will be loading exams to the system through one-on-one phone and computer-based support methods. Support for all user types within the NIH environment. This includes not only physicians, but technologists, technicians, Research Nurses, Clinical Care Coordinators, Fellows, Trainees, IT Support personnel, and others. Dependency upon a National Provider Identifier must be optional. Vendor support for patients and outside facility access and use of their network 24/7/365 Readily accessible full audit logs of interactions with the exams, including who interacted, what they saw, when they saw it, what else they did with the exam, etc. This must be available at the patient level, the exam level, and the user level. Indefinite availability of patient uploaded exams that have been shared to the NIH Researchers and their staff, to account for patient screening(s) that are not yet appropriate to be included in the NIH CCIIP. The ability to share cohorts of specific exams to specific collaborators, either anonymized or not. These collaborators may be part of a multicenter clinical trial where the NIH is not the responsible center. Capability to work with the vendor(s) engineering teams to provide custom services should they arise. Collaborative viewing within the vendors platform for clinical consults and conferences as part of the screening process. Integration with Philips Vue PACS/RIS/Speech as required Ability to support not only our Philips Vue PACS, but our Fuji Synapse VNA, and our Fuji Synapse CV PACS. Import and coercion capability of appropriate exams into the Clinical Center Imaging Informatics Platform(s) (CCIIP) via DICOM and non-DICOM methods. Coercion to include the modification of Patient Identifiers and Exam Identifiers should be available and automation of this process would be optimal. Integration with Altera Sunrise Clinical Manager and, as a phase 2 implementation integration with our Follow My Health Patient Portal. Conformance with NIH Security guidelines as implementation requires Capability for NIH administrator management of archive and caches through web-based application Administrator tools and training for relevant NIH CC PACS/RIS IT support personnel where shared responsibility can assist in issue resolution and reduce issue resolution time. Vendor administrator support with super-user tools and training for appropriate members of Film Library and other departments involved in the import of outside films. Ability to upload to and download from the Vendor’s cloud-based archive. Project Management will work with NIH CC Project Management office Vendor will provide the following upon award: Project Plan Contact List Provision of Issues Management platform Work with our Change Control Provide an analysis of Risk Management Deployment Planning Vendor and Customer Resource management plan Support for Interfaces, Integrations, and software (security vulnerability) support External facing vulnerability remediation timelines as below unless superseded by HHS/CISA/BOD requirements • Critical within 15 days; • High within 30 days; • Medium within 60 days; and • Low within 6 months Internal Facing vulnerability remediation timelines as below unless superseded by HHS/CISA/BOD requirements- • Critical within 30 days; • High within 60 days; • Medium within 90 days; and • Low within 6 months. Go-Live support Support for integration into our ‘screening’ workflow, including PACS import upon patient inclusion in Research Protocol Anonymization support for export of NIH data shared through the platform Routing of exam results back to referring physicians outside of NIH Provision of EMR integration for any viewers associated with the platform, for the duration of the contract. This may mean re-instantiation if there is a change in the underlying EMR system, or different viewers are used within your platform. Support for external viewers to the vendor’s platform. Support of Purging rules in the Vendor’s archive (if deemed required) Provide support for periodic Security and Legal review Period of Performance One (1) year base period inclusive of deployment and service/support and one (1) additional option period of one (1) year of service/support. Background The mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. The NIH accomplishes that mission by conducting research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering communication of biomedical information. The NIH Clinical Center (CC) is a 234-bed federally funded, biomedical research hospital located on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The Clinical Center is the delivery setting for all NIH intramural clinical research protocols. The hospital complex consists of two main facilities that are connected to each other by “bridges”. The original 14-story building is 2.5 million square feet and continues to house the clinical laboratories, imaging sciences, surgical suites, and several outpatient clinics. The new 870,000 square foot facility houses inpatient units and day hospitals. The Clinical Center accounts for about half of all NIH-funded clinical research beds in the United States and accommodates about 7,000 inpatient and 70,000 outpatient visits a year. Patients are admitted to the NIH Clinical Center from all over the world for the sole purpose of participating in a clinical research protocol. The Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences (RAD&IS) provides imaging services to the CC patients who participate in research protocols conducted by the various NIH institutes. Imaging services include X-rays, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, computed tomography (CT) scans and interventional radiology (special procedures). Diagnostic services in ultrasound, digital mammography, positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), and nuclear medicine are also provided. All these diagnostic modalities generate clinical diagnostic images that are sent to and archived on the RAD&IS’s Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The departmental radiologists review the diagnostic images and dictate clinical findings using a Voice Recognition system (VRS). The finds are saved in reports which are stored in the RAD&IS’s Radiology Information System (RIS) and forwarded to the Clinical Research Information System or the Clinical Center’s Hospital Information System (CRIS) which is an Altera Digital Health Sunrise Clinical Manager (v20). We generate ~40000 imaging examinations (CT, MR, PET, XA, US, NM, etc.) per year, but also intake another 30 to 40,000 exams from outside sources (collaborators, screening, outside acquisitions, etc..). Our current Philips Vue PACS has ~2.3 million exams, of which ~530,000 are NIH generated, with reports from NIH physicians. We have a primary need to provide a method for intake of these exams, and provide a method for screening the examinations for appropriateness for inclusion in a research protocol. CARAHSOFT TECHNOLOGY CORP is the provider of the solution and support and is the only sources reasonably available and known to be compatible and integrate with existing systems. This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of the FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b)(i) allowing the Contracting Officer (CO) to solicit from one source. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541519 with a standard size of 150 employees. This notice of intent to award is not a request for competitive quotations. Interested concerns capable of providing the same products or services as described in this notice may submit a capability statement outlining their capabilities. No solicitation is available. Information received will be evaluated for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Capability Statements must be received within the time set forth in this synopsis to be considered by the Government. A determination to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Each response should include the following Business Information: a. DUNS number and tax identification number. b. Company Name, address, POC, Phone and Email address c. Current GSA Schedules or NAICS codes appropriate to this Award. d. Capability Statement Comments to this announcement may be submitted to the Clinical Center, Office of Purchasing and Contracts, prior to the closing date specified in this announcement, electronically to the attention of Christopher Lauver, christopher.lauver@nih.gov by the due date and time marked in this notice.