Proposed Scope of Work LWW Total Access Collection Subscription i. Sources Sought Notice Introduction The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires an existing commercial off the shelf web based product named LWW Total Access Collection Subscription that will be made available throughout the VHA healthcare system. For the purpose of this solicitation, these products include sources online full-text journals of the LWW Total Access Collection Subscription; no substitution of journal titles is acceptable. At this time, no solicitation exists. Therefore, PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST A COPY OF THE SOLICITATION. Contractors having the skills and capabilities necessary to meet the below stated requirements should submit a response of no more than 5 pages in length, single spaced, 12 point font minimum that addresses the above information. In response to this Sources Sought, interested contractors shall submit the following information to Jonathan Chisholm via email at
[email protected]. Please provide the following information: A. Company Name and Address B. Company DUNS # C. Company point of contact, telephone, and email address. D. Socio-Economic Status - Indicate whether your company, subcontractors, teaming partners, joint ventures have a Federal Socio-Economic status, e.g., Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Veteran Owned Small Business, Woman-Owned Small Business, Disadvantaged Small Business, and Hub Zone. If Service-Disabled or Veteran Owned Small Business, is your company and or partners registered in VA's VetBiz repository? E. If the company holds a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Contract, list the GSA Contract Number and relevant SINS. F. Capabilities / Qualifications: Provide a written description of the capabilities/qualifications/skills your company possesses to perform services described in this Sources Sought. G. Past Experience - Provide the following information on three similar projects completed within the last three years for which the responder was a prime or subcontractor. a. The name, address, and value of each project b. The Prime Contract Type, Firm Fixed-Price, or Time and Material c. The name, telephone and address of the owner of each project d. A description of each project, including difficulties and successes e. Your company's role and services provided for each project. DISCLAIMER This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this notice that is marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to firm a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expensed associated with responding to this Sources Sought. Performance Period: One year subscription. 1.1 Objectives The desired goals of the nationwide provision of a commercial LWW Total Access Collection Subscription are as follows: 1.1.1 Providing access nationwide to standard knowledge based clinical information resources will build on the enterprise wide availability of the web based version of ACP PIER Plus and current New England Journal of Medicine. 1.1.2 Initiating a nationwide, centralized purchase to capitalize on the economies of scale offered by vendors. 1.1.3 Negotiating one license/contract to decrease the current contracting and reviewing efforts that are required at the facility and/or VISN level and thereby avoid the costs and workload associated with multiple procurements. 2.0 Scope of Work: No substitution of journal titles is acceptable. The web-based version of the LWW Total Access Collection Subscription providing the following: " Unlimited enterprise-wide access with no geographic or concurrent user limitations " Content in both HTML and PDF formats " Access to online-only supplements and images " Detailed usage reports