TheraDoc: Best Value and Past Performance vs. Low Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) Contracts
Which approach will VA get the most out of when choosing a clinical surveillance software solution for a well-suited, excellent clinical workflow operations and patient care?
DSS is committed to best value and excellence in performance – demonstrating balance for cost, execution, and efficiency across the solutions and services it provides. When choosing a clinical surveillance software solution, emphasis should be placed on best value and past performance rather than the lowest cost solution available.
When looking to buy a Clinical Surveillance Solution, VA is not simply procuring a widget, but a full clinical software solution, which directly affects overall clinical workflows and patient care.
When evaluating and deciding on the right choice for the VA hospital, a full vetting of a vendor’s capability and performance should be required by evaluating vendor’s approach and experience instead of assuming they can check the boxes on a minimal list of requirements. Thus, aligning with VA’s support of high reliability organization or HRO principles.
Choosing a competitive LPTA solution can cause many challenges. These include increased patient risk and delays in patient care, increased staff time, and hard and soft costs that come from switching solutions.
“VA Chief Acquisition Officer, Mike Parrish is also looking to make major changes in how VA evaluates bids. He wants to rely less on firm, fixed price and reduce the number of change orders by starting to focus on best value, rather than lowest price. He also wants to place more importance on past performance, to ensure vendors can deliver what they promise.”
Learn more about how to achieve best value procurement and how TheraDoc, as one of the pioneers in electronic clinical surveillance, has remained at the forefront of advances in this technology.
Fill out the form below and we’ll be happy to schedule a brief discussion with you to learn more about your needs, how our solutions work, and how we can work together. Our team will contact you shortly.