Acquisition & Materiel Management Service (90C), VA Medical Center, 2201 North Broadwell Avenue, Grand Island, NE 68803-2196

R -- TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE Sol IFB 574-48-95. Due 061295. Contact Bonnie Obermier, 308/389-5118, Contracting Officer, Grand Island, NE. The Contractor will be required to provide all necessary labor, tools, equipment, and materials to provide medical transcription for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2201 North Broadwell Avenue, Grand Island, Nebraska 68803. The work required by this contract consists of providing medical transcription on Contractor owned equipment at the Contractor's place of business, and transmitting electronically to Contractor owned equipment installed at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Grand Island, Nebraska 68803. Contractor should provide service everyday with exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. All transcription will be in the English language. Material is dictated by physicians and other health care professionals requiring adaptation to variations in accents, speech, tone, voice volume, delivery, pronunciation and enunciation. Dictation includes a high incidence of technical terminology and requires the transcriber to have a wide variety of medical terminology of subjects in the fields of medicine and surgery, including, but not limited to Anesthesiology, Cardiology, Dermatology, Dentistry, Endocrinology, General Medicine, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Peripheral diseases, Rheumatology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Urology, and Rehabilitation Medicine. Various Social Histories, Intakes, and Uptakes are transcribed. There will be an estimated total of 350,000 lines of medical transcription for period of one year. Based on a 30-day average month, this would be approximately 100 lines of transcription per day. The possibility exists that the daily line of transcription could increase to 1500 lines per day. The contract will be for (1) year with two (1) year options for renewal. Solicitation documents will be available approximately 5/8/95. All requests must be in writing, faxed requests will not be accepted. Bid opening date is 6/12/95 at 2:00 p.m. This acquisition is set-aside 100% for small businesses only. Contractor interested must send a resume which affirmatively state that the contractor has the capacity and demonstrated experience to perform the service requested. Resume not to exceed five pages with reference confirming your related experience. SIC Code 8999. (125)

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