Notice ID: 693JJ925RQ000228
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to identify potential qualified Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein to standardize the collection of motor vehicle crash injury data by emergency medical services (EMS) agencies.
The purpose of this contract is to continue to support and maintain the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) and the Technical Assistance Center (TAC). The NEMSIS is a framework that provides a national standard for patient care reporting by emergency services personnel in the out-of-hospital setting. The NEMSD defines data elements, values, and established a national standard for data exchange in collaboration with State, territorial, tribal and the District of Columbia (STTDC) EMS offices, software vendors, national partners, and industry experts. Data from patient care reports completed by all EMS clinicians at the point-of-care in the out-of-hospital setting are sent from their local agency to STTDC level data repositories before being submitted to the NEMSD. Data quality is maintained through electronic patient care report (ePCR) software vendor compliance testing and the adoption of national case definitions and schema language. This patient care reporting and data exchange system is maintained by NHTSA OEMS.
This contract continues maintenance, further development, ongoing implementation of NEMSIS, the NEMSD, and TAC to harmonize NEMSIS with electronic health record initiatives. Integration with regional, Federal, State, and local Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), Qualified Heath Information Networks (QHINS), registries (e.g., trauma, cardiac and stroke), other national data sets such as the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC), Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), provide information to other healthcare providers that see the patient after EMS delivers initial care, transport, and/or interfacility transfer.
SUPPLIES/SERVICES
The Contractor shall furnish the necessary qualified personnel, facilities, materials, supplies, equipment, and services to perform work associated with the requirements as stated in the Draft SOW which includes but are not limited to the following:
- The Contractor shall operate the NEMSIS TAC, hosting center, NEMSD, website (www.NEMSIS.org ), and all related functions for the period of performance of the Contract. The Contractor shall begin to provide NEMSIS related technical assistance and support. This may include site visits, webinars, and other technical assistance, including programming or other special requests from system users.
- The Contractor shall operate all related systems to ensure uninterrupted collection, management, and reporting of EMS data received from STTDC EMS agencies. This work shall be accomplished in tandem with maintenance of an AWS Cloud [Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Moderate] NEMSIS information technology (IT) infrastructure instance. The NEMSIS shall be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year unless a scheduled maintenance period or mitigation of an unexpected event is required, uptime of 99.9% shall be maintained throughout the period of performance.
- The Contractor shall implement all approved architecture, structure, and artifacts associated with the NEMSIS 3.5.x and future standard releases.
- The Contractor shall provide support for additional tasks designed to facilitate data connectivity and stakeholder utilization of the NEMSIS standard data, to include, but not limited to, customer service and support for EMS researchers, medical researchers, DOT, NHTSA, CDC, other Federal partners, the States, and EMS software vendors.
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