Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, A&MMS 90C, 3200 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45220

R -- TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES (RADIOLOGY) SOL 539-27-98 DUE 070298 POC Peggy A. Doxtater, Contract Specialist, 513-475-6339; Betty J. Dessauer, Contract Specialist, 513-475-6340; Judith L. Blasingame, Contract Specialist, 513-475-6336 The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, requires Transcription Services for Radiology Service. Solicitation packages will be available on or about 6/3/98. Contractor will be required to provide services to transcribe approximately 195,000 lines of dictation annually into the proper format and transmit to the VA VISTA (Veteran's Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) computer system within 24 hours of the dictation; STAT dictations shall require a one-hour turn around time. Dictated reports must be available for viewing in the VISTA system during the turn-around period. The successful offeror must have equipment that is compatible with our medical center system (i.e., a personal computer with MS Word or Word Perfect and be able to format the report in an ASCII format to allow the reports to transmit correctly) and must be able to transmit into this Medical Center's computer system via telephone lines. Associated costs for compatible equipment described and all telephone line charges are to be borne by the Contractor. Material transcribed will include a specialized vocabulary of highly specific radiologic terminology. The anticipated contract shall be for a base year with four one-year option periods. This solicitation is a total 100% small business set-aside. SIC Code 7389 is applicable and the small business size standard is $5.0 million. Only written requests for solicitations will be accepted. Requests may be faxed to Peggy Doxtater, Contract Specialist, at 513-475-6334. (0141)

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