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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JULY 30, 2017 FBO #5728
DOCUMENT

D -- TAC-18-42942 Intersystems Cache Software Maintenance - Attachment

Notice Date

7/28/2017
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

541512 — Computer Systems Design Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Technology Acquisition Center;23 Christopher Way;Eatontown NJ 07724
 

ZIP Code

07724
 

Solicitation Number

VA11817N2391
 

Response Due

8/7/2017
 

Archive Date

11/14/2017
 

Point of Contact

Raymond Mesler, Contract Specialist
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

Introduction The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing a Request for Information to seek comprehensive integrated software solutions that exist today that can meet the requirements identified below. The current platform is installed and operational throughout the Department, including VA Medical Centers, VA VISN Data Centers, and VA Regional Data Centers on hundreds of server systems supporting over 1,233 health care facilities of varying complexity, delivering nearly 100 Million patient encounters to more than 8.9 million Veterans per year supported by over 340,000 employees, including 25,000 physicians and 93,600 nurses. Background The mission of VA Office of Information & Technology (OI&T) is to provide Information Technology (IT) resources and support to those who deliver care and benefits services to the Veterans of the United States.   In meeting mission, OI&T provides high quality, effective, and efficient IT services to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of-care as well as throughout all the points of the Veterans health care in an effective, timely and compassionate manner.   VA depends on Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) systems to meet mission goals. At the heart of OI&T operations and responsibilities is the VA s Electronic Health Record which resides in a Database Operating System and Application Platform called Intersystems Cache. Every electronic health record of every Veteran serviced by the Department resides on this system. VA has an extensive investment in Intersystem s technology and extensive experience with that technology. VA has been using Mumps/Cache for over three decades and the amount of code in this environment is enormous. To rewrite this code would cost in the billions of dollars, be extremely time consuming and would require a lengthy transition period. Further, rewriting this code would jeopardize the integrity and the cohesiveness of the VistA platform introducing significant risk to VA medical operations. There are features in Cache that provide functionality that are not present in any other product and are being used in production in the VistA system. Any changes to the platform/Software would trigger program failures and stop data flow that physicians and other healthcare providers depend on. VistA is written in standard-M (ISO/IEC 11756:1999) and therefore requires a standards-compliant M platform in order to operate correctly. As this is a critical component of the patient s health record and care, it is important VA maintains utilizing this platform. VistA has utilized standard-M since its inception as Decentralized Hospital Computing Program (DHCP) in 1985. The Healthcare application, which operates on this platform, is called VistA The Veterans Integrated System Technology Architecture. From its roots in the DHCP, this EHR and the associated all-encompassing service delivery system has faithfully serviced the VA Health Care Community, and thus our Veteran Population for many years. VistA includes over 150 of mission-specific applications in the following categories: Clinical (80 applications) Financial-Administrative (31 applications) Infrastructure Functions (36 applications) Patient Web Portal Functions (9 applications) VA seeks to obtain the software product(s) and SUTA (Software Upgrade and Technical Assurance) services necessary to ensure it can meet its mission of providing comprehensive and world-class modernized Database Operating and Language platforms to its healthcare community in order to provide accurate, flexible, and agile health care services to the Veteran Community via the VistA Platform and fully support the future development of this platform. VA has committed to, and is implementing, numerous, and continuous updates to this (VistA) platform, including, but not limited to, VistA Evolution VistA Data Access (VDA) VLER eHealth eXchange (eHx) VistA Standardization & Virtualization (VSV) Joint Legacy Viewer (JLV) Digital Veterans Platform (DVP) Veterans Access & Preferences (VAP) VistA Read Only (VRO) Community Care While these efforts encompass a broad range of specific activities with specific goals, they have several needs in common, including: The ability to work with VistA Data, Natively, AS-IS. Operate on Health Interoperability Buses (ESB Enterprise Service Bus) Facilitate Health Information Exchange operations with outside health providers and other health record products. Requirements These goals, in turn, have specific platform compatibility and operational requirements in order to not only operate the VistA platform as-is, but to continue evolving that platform. In February of 2017, OI&T, Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO), Technical Solution Services (TSS) performed an Analysis of Alternatives for future VistA architecture and operation. Amongst several dozen specific criteria, (183), the following were found to be critical for VistA s implemented and future architectures: High performance implementation of a canonical information model Support for Objects, Unstructured Data, Interfaces and exchange format - JSON, REST, SOAP, XML, ODBC, JDBC Business Intelligence, Messaging Engine, Messaging Engine, Visual Trace, Transformations & Routing Business Rules, Technology Adapters, Monitoring, Workflow, Dashboards, Services Oriented Architecture Enterprise Service Bus, Composite Health Record Support the following standards: FHIR, IHE profiles, C-CDA/CDA/CCD, CEN/ISO 13606, eHealth Exchange, Direct (SMTP/XDM/XDR), HL7v2.x, HL7v3, DICOM, X12, ITK (United Kingdom), NEHTA (Australia), DMP (France) Interoperable with: ActiveHealth, Allscripts, Axolotl,CareGroup, CDPHP, Cerner, CSC Medicaid NY, DoD/Mil. Health, eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, Epic Systems, GE Healthcare Greenway, GSI Health, HealthNow, InstantDx, LabCorp of America, Lawson, Meditech, MEDecision, Microsoft, Misys, NextGen, NYS Medicaid, Oracle, Orion Health, Partners Healthcare, Philips, QuadraMed, Quest Diagnostics, RelayHealth, Siemens, Sunquest, Surescripts Additionally, VA Requires software that: Implements FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Natively Provides Kerberos Authentication and Encryption Has Multi-platform capabilities (VMS, Linux, Windows Server) Provides Enterprise Service Bus technology Natively reads and interoperates with, without conversion, translation, or transposition, Intersystems Cache.dat files on VMS, Linux, and Windows Operating Systems Executes, without conversion, translation, or transposition, VistA Object Oriented Code written in Intersystems Cache Programming Language. Provide Enterprise Service Bus functionality while not requiring translation, transposition, or conversion of VA data in its native format. Support creation and operation of Object-Oriented Solutions Provides Text Analysis Tools to convert unstructured text to structured data Provides SQL Integration While VA does not use SQL as the primary database engine, it does interact with other SQL-Based platforms. An integrated method of accessing SQL data is important in these cases. Contains technology for mining and analyzing data in free-text fields that are abundantly present in VistA Data. Contains CSP Technology VA has online web-based presentation-layer products. CSP is required for this. Is currently demonstrated to be production-operational at facilities equivalent to Medium to Large VA Facilities. (Facilities list is here: https://www.va.gov/directory/guide/rpt_fac_list.cfm) Provides Disaster Recovery and High Availability VA has implemented Cache redundancy technologies at several critical data centers in the country. This allows for more rapid failover of data centers with virtually no data loss and only momentary pauses in operation. This is a critical component of our operations data protection. Questions Please respond to the following questions, in detail, providing Specific examples where appropriate Publically available documentation that supports your assertions, with references, where appropriate Question 1: Can you, today, provide software that meets all requirements listed above? Question 2: Can you, today, provide Professional Services personnel that: Are Cache Certified Experts Can access Cache Source code and make changes without violating Intersystems Cache Warrantees Question 3: What is your company s background and experience in providing Health Information Technology Services to organizations equivalent in size to VA? Please provide specific data and examples. Responses, limited to 10 pages, are requested no later than 12:00pm noon EST on August 7, 2017 via email to Kimberly.Flynn1@va.gov, Raymond.Mesler@va.gov and Carol.Newcomb@va.gov.
 

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