Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a sole source contract for the Firely Simplifier Tool, a SaaS-based FHIR specification development platform. The tool will provide integrated capabilities for collaborative authoring, standards conformance validation, version control, documentation generation, and publication of FHIR IGs used by VA programs and external trading partners. The contract includes a 12-month base period with four 12-month option periods. The tool will be used by the VHA KBS S&I team, contractors, and VA programs to author, test, validate, manage, and publish HL7 FHIR API IGs and companion specifications.
Key features of the tool include:
• Authoring and maintaining FHIR Application Programming Interface (API) Implementation Guides and companion specifications
• Validation of FHIR artifacts against Health Level Seven (HL7) standards and profiles
• Integrated management of Structure Definitions, Value Sets, Code Systems, Capability Statements, test cases, and example resources
• Generation and publication of human-readable and machine-consumable specifications
• Enterprise collaboration, reuse, and lifecycle management of FHIR specifications