VA Medical Center, 800 Zorn Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206-1499

R -- MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION SOL 603-28-00 DUE 061500 POC Marsha Metzger -- 502/894-6113 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting officer via, marsha.metzger@med.va.gov. The Department of Veterans Affairs, Louisville, KY has a requirement for complete medical transcription services. Contractor shall furnish all labor, materials, and equipment necessary to provide complete medical transcription services to the VA Medical Center, Louisville, KY. Contractor must electronically transmit all transcribed reports directly into the specified Government VISTA (Veterans Health Information System and Technology Architecture) System programs via telecommunication lines. Connect charges will be at the Contractor's expense. Contractor shall provide at contractor's location, a digital teledictation system that can be accessed by toll-free telephone number(s) for up to 12 simultaneous toll-free telephone users from this VAMC. Teledictation system must be capable of direct dial by a touch tone telephone and will run continuously 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including Federal holidays. Contractor is responsible for all telephone local/long distance charges incurred during the receiving of dictated reports into Contractor's system and during transmission of reports to this facility. Completed work is to be transmitted to this facility from 4 to 48 hours of dictation. All work assigned high priority/STAT will be transmitted immediately after having been transcribed. The definition of high priority is eight (8) hours and STAT is four (4) hours from the time of dictation completion to transmission of the completed transcribed report. The contract cost will be based on a per line value with an estimated line count of l,565,000. Line count will be determined by contractor's teledictation equipment with line count set at 14 lines of dictation per minute. This contract is subject to the service contract act and the place of performance is unknown. Wage determinations have not been requested from DOL. The Contracting Officer will request wage determinations for possible places of performance if asked to do so and if the request is received in writing no later than May 24, 2000. There is a $25.00 NON REFUNDABLE Charge for this solicitation. Please make check or money order payable to: VA Medical Center, No. 603 and send along with your request for proposal on company letterhead to Contracting Officer(90C). Proposals are due by COB on June 16, 2000. The contract period is expected to be from July 1, 2000 or date of award through June 30, 2001 with four (4) one year renewal options. This is a 100% Set-Aside for Small Businesses, SIC 7338 applies. Award is subject to the availability of funds. See number Note 1. Posted 05/16/00 (W-SN455551). (0137)

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