Notice of Intent to Sole Source: 36C77618Q9232 EBSCO eBooks (14 titles) Subscription Introduction: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) intends to issue a sole source contract to EBSCO Industries, Inc. for 14 of their electronic textbooks, also known as eBooks. Justification: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires an existing commercial off the shelf web based subscription to fourteen (14) EBSCO electronic textbooks, also known as eBooks, which will be made available throughout the VHA healthcare system. This procurement is for a VA enterprise-wide license for electronic access to the EBSCO eBook titles shown in Scope of Work below. No substitutions for alternate titles are acceptable. VHA s goal is to insure uniform availability of high quality, medical and health sciences electronic textbooks across the VHA system to improve clinical decision making. Background: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires existing commercial off the shelf (COTS) subscription to EBSCO s eBooks collection. These eBooks will be made available throughout the VHA healthcare system via an enterprise-wide license (for electronic access) in order to insure uniform availability of high quality, medical and health sciences electronic textbooks across the VHA system to improve clinical decision making. EBSCO is the only source for the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) institutional subscriptions. For the other required titles, EBSCO is the only source that offers a purchase option without annual maintenance fees. As a policy, and out of necessity, the Library Network Office (LNO) does not pay for recurring maintenance fees, as it is cost-prohibitive to pay recurring fees on the thousands of titles in its collection. Submittal Information: As stated above, this is an Intent to Sole Source. However, any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency, only if received by the closing date and time of this notice. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Responses to this notice are due on or before August 23nd, 2018 at 12:00 PM to Clayton Smith via email at
[email protected], and Kaylan Grove at
[email protected]. All responses must include the following information: Company name, Cage code, CCR number, Dun & Bradstreet number, Company address, Point of contact name, Phone number, Fax number, GSA contract (if applicable) and email. The subject line for correspondence should clearly display: 36C77618Q9232. ATTACHMENTS: Statement of Work DRAFT