The contractor will answer to the Iraqi Government and the US government will not supervise nor control the contractor. I thought this was a bit odd to see this but 
passing the word along from Government Health IT. The contractor will need to install servers and provide training.
More information is at the website. BD
The U.S. Army is looking for a vendor to deploy WorldVistA EHR, an open source version of the Veterans Affairs Department’s VistA medical record system, for the Iraq Ministry of Defense. It will connect with the government’s healthcare system, enhance patient record-keeping and improve the level of healthcare in Iraq.
The WorldVistA EHR is used elsewhere in the Middle East, such as at the National Cancer Institute of Cairo University in Egypt, and in Jordan’s national health system.
The United States government will not supervise or control the contractor, who is responsible to the Iraqi government.
According to the contract plans, within 60 days of its award, the vendor will develop requirements, purchase all the necessary equipment, train in Arabic up to 100 clinical and administrative personnel on the EHR system and other technical staff to establish and maintain WorldVistA software and hardware. The vendor will also install servers at a staging area with connectivity to the hospital, while the Iraqi Defense Network will be extended to user/client locations, making the WorldVistA system operational in the testing environment.
According to the contract plans, within 60 days of its award, the vendor will develop requirements, purchase all the necessary equipment, train in Arabic up to 100 clinical and administrative personnel on the EHR system and other technical staff to establish and maintain WorldVistA software and hardware. The vendor will also install servers at a staging area with connectivity to the hospital, while the Iraqi Defense Network will be extended to user/client locations, making the WorldVistA system operational in the testing environment.
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