Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide Computrition software for the Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks. The software should be able to automate food service operations and nutrition care management, and integrate with the VA VISTA system. The contract will be for a base year with four option years. The contractor will be required to provide a Windows-based, user-friendly software with point-and-click functionality and rapid data processing. The software should be able to manage standardized ingredients, scalable recipes, and menus, automate ordering and inventory, and streamline production. It should also be able to track patients' diet orders and diet order changes, identify patient allergies, likes, and dislikes, and demographic data. The contractor will be required to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including those related to information security and privacy.
Some key features of the software include:
• Menu planning, inventory, production planning, forecasting, nutritional analysis, purchasing, automated ordering, and refine management
• Cost controls and automated HACCP compliance
• Ability to define batch, pan, or distribution size for production
• Ability to generate back-up purchase orders for re-order needs based on on-hand inventory, on-order goods, and committed products
• Ability to calculate year-to-date information by product category
• Integrated electronic ordering and confirmation and automated vendor price updates
• Ability to have multiple menu types at the same time
• Ability to link each recipe, as well as its respective ingredients, nutritional content, and potential allergens, and compare it to the nutritional assessment and diet order for each patient
• Ability to block an allergen from being selected when patients make their menu selections, avoiding human error
• Inclusion of the USDA's nutrient database of generic foods and the vendor-supplied database, including manufacturer, distributor, and branded item information
• Ability for the end user to add nutrient data for new ingredients as new information becomes available