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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 11, 2012 FBO #3760
DOCUMENT

76 -- HDI 12-13 Subscription - Attachment

Notice Date

3/9/2012
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

424920 — Book, Periodical, and Newspaper Merchant Wholesalers
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Program Contracting Activity Central;6150 Oak Tree Blvd, Suite 300;Independence OH 44131
 

ZIP Code

44131
 

Solicitation Number

VA70112I0156
 

Response Due

3/15/2012
 

Archive Date

6/22/2012
 

Point of Contact

MERRIE FROST
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

This (Amended) sources sought notice is for market research purposes in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. It does not constitute a solicitation and is not to be considered as a commitment by the Government. This sources sought notice is a Request for Information (RFI) before the release of any resultant solicitation. This is not a request for a proposal and does not guarantee the release of any solicitation. Online Research Subscription Services A. GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Scope of Work: The purpose of the statement of work is to establish the terms and conditions under which VA can utilize the subscription and commercial information services for the VACO Library. 2. Background: The Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) is in need of online research subscriptions to provide access to their 152 medical centers, 13 thousand physicians, and 60 thousand nurses within the VHA. These online databases will be used to search journals for information on specific topics. The search will contain journal references that either have summaries or are the actual full-text article. 3. Performance Period: One year from date of award, and 1 (twelve month) option year at the government's discretion. 4. Type of Contract: Firm-fixed Price 5. Place of Performance: Not Applicable B. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: Not Applicable C. SPECIFIC MANDATORY TASKS 1. Description of Tasks: The contractor shall provide the specific deliverables described below within the performance period stated in Section A.3 of this SOW. 2. Task one: The following subscription services shall be provided to the VACO Library. a. Business Database This should have a full text of more than 2,100 journals. Full text is provided from 1965 to present, and searchable cited references are available from 1998 to present. Coverage should include business disciplines, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content should include market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. Should include Regional Business News with daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional U.S. and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). b. Nursing and allied health with/Full Text A comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals which are indexed. The database should also provide full text for more than 275 books/monographs; complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association. This database should cover nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database should offer access to nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, etc. c. Medical with/ Full Text A database with an authoritative health sciences information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc. This should have Full Text searches over 4,800 current biomedical journals, providing full text for 1,470 journals. This database should contain the full text for many of the most used journals in the health sciences fields. d. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This database should be a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This should be a psychology database offering full text coverage for around 560 journals. D. CHANGES TO STATEMENT OF WORK Any changes to this SOW shall be authorized and approved only through written correspondence from the Contracting Officer (CO). A copy of each change will be kept in a project folder along with all other products of the project. Costs incurred by the contractor through the actions of parties other than the CO shall be borne by the contractor. E. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS: Not applicable F. TRAVEL: Not applicable G. GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES: No applicable H. CONTRACTOR EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS - KEY PERSONNEL: Not applicable I. CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL FOR SOFTWARE INTEGRATION: Not applicable J. ARCHITECTUAL GUIDELINES: Not applicable K. SECURITY: Not applicable "Information System Security: Not applicable "Security Training: Not applicable L. CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL SECURITY: Not applicable "Background Investigation: Not applicable "Contractor Responsibilities: Not applicable "Government Responsibilities: Not applicable M. ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS "Internet/Intranet: Not applicable "Section 508: Not applicable N. CONFIDENTIALITY AND NONDISCLOSURE: Not applicable The following Information is requested in response to this RFI; - 1) Name of your company with DUNS #, identify Business size of your company, (Small Business, Large Business, Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, Veteran Owned, Woman Owned or HUBZone) -2) Identify if offered as open market commercial and or GSA Schedule provider, list Schedule number if applicable. -3) Capabilities/Qualifications - Provide the following information for each functional area in the "REQUIREMENTS" section above. Who are your frequent customers? Provide point of contact. PLEASE LIMIT YOUR DOCUMENT TO 10 TOTAL PAGES with a font no small than 12. -4) Please include contact information, including the name of the point of contact, email address, and telephone number for your company -5) What is the normal length of a contract for the services described above? This notice does not restrict the Government to an ultimate acquisition approach. All firms responding to this sources sought notice are advised that their response is not a request that will be considered for contract award. All interested parties will be required to respond to the resultant solicitation separately from their response to this sources sought notice. SUBMIT YOUR RESPONSE TO merrie.frost@va.gov BY 4:30 p.m. EST ON Thursday, March 15, 2012. SUBJECT LINE SHOULD INCLUDE RFI NUMBER AND TITLED "Online Research Subscription Services."
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/ISC/OISC/VA70112I0156/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA701-12-I-0156 A0001 VA701-12-I-0156 A0001.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=305807&FileName=VA701-12-I-0156-A0001000.docx)

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Record

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