FedBizOpps. GOV: The National Library of Medicine is spearheading the planning, procurement and implementation of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) / Real Time Location System (RTLS) for the Bethesda Hospitals' Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BHEPP). A draft of the Statement of Work is attached.
OBJECTIVES
The National Library of Medicine will be seeking contractor(s) that shall furnish the necessary personnel, products, materials and other services required to plan and implement a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) / Real Time Location System (RTLS) for the Bethesda Hospitals' Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BHEPP).
The BHEPP has identified a critical need for the acquisition of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) / Real Time Location System (RTLS) to directly support the current emergency preparedness initiatives of three of its members, namely, the National Naval Medical Center, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, and Suburban Hospital Healthcare System. The BHEPP requires a system that will operate on a stand-alone network, separate from BHEPP partner production networks, and a scalable system that can be implemented incrementally as more requirements are requested by the Partnership. The RFID/RTLS solution shall incorporate role-based access so as to provide BHEPP the ability to track patients and assets across all three hospitals, while at the same time providing each of the hospitals the ability to track their own patients and assets.
Initial RFID/RTLS requirements will focus on patient tracking, inventory management, disaster exercise support, and systems integration as outlined below:
I. Patient Tracking: Tracking of disaster victims within each of the Partnership facilities, and of stable medical/surgical patients being transported among facilities during mass casualty situations.
II. Critical Asset Management: Managing/tracking critical assets to ensure easy location and mobilization during mass casualty situations.
III. Systems Integration: Providing necessary application program interfaces (APIs) to facilitate the integration of the RFID/RTLS system with other BHEPP disaster response applications through open standards.
IV. Disaster Exercise Support: Support collaborative multi-agency disaster exercises to demonstrate the effectiveness of RFID/RTLS technology in patient tracking and inventory management during mass casualty situations.
Tasking will be performed primarily at the facilities of the Suburban Hospital, National Naval Medical Center, and National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Meetings and coordination activities will be conducted at National Library Medicine Buildings 38 and 38A, National Institutes of Health main campus, located in Bethesda, Maryland, in addition to the other BHEPP partner locations.

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