SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Consumer Oriented Health News for Inclusion in the MEDLINEplus Website
- Notice Date
- 12/26/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- NLM-03-051-UHP
- Archive Date
- 1/28/2003
- Point of Contact
- Uyen Phuong, Lead Purchasing Agent, Phone 301 496-6127, Fax 301 402-8169, - Karen Riggs, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 496-6546, Fax 301 402-0642,
- E-Mail Address
-
PHUONGU@mail.nlm.nih.gov, kr33v@nih.gov
- Description
- It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to procure custom content and delivery of consumer oriented health news for inclusion in the MEDLINEplus website on a sole source basis from Pinnacor Inc. and Reuters Health Information Services Inc., New York, NY, for a continuation of existing services with NLM. MEDLINEplus is NLM's web-based consumer information resource that includes health topic pages, drug information and other links to Internet resources of interest to the consumer. NLM extracts and displays headlines from the content with hypertext links to the full text of the corresponding news story both from the Library's portal pages and/or, as appropriate, from the more than 570 topic pages on the website. Currently, MEDLINEplus receives over 12 million page hits per month. The inclusion of current health and medical news is an important feature of this highly respected web site. Pinnacor Inc. is an aggregator providing sophisticated software for the distribution of digital content via the Internet. It draws content from a large number of national and international content providers including such high quality sources as AP World Stream, Agence France-Presse, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times Syndicate, Deutche Presse Agentur, and United Press International. Pinnacor also offers delivery of Reuters HealtheLine provided the content is licensed directly. Pinnacor's "Site Ware" product delivers custom filtered content in real-time. NLM staff can efficiently select stores from the filtered content for delivery to the NLM website through a secure protocol over the Internet for integration into the MEDLINEplus website. The content is resident on the NLM site with no "link-out". The provider offers a choice of delivery methods including XML, NLM's preferred delivery method. MEDLINEplus selection staff, are fully trained on the Pinnacor "Editor's Desk", used to select, edit, and promote stories to the MEDLINEplus database. The MEDLINEplus input system has also been programmed to receive and process the specific fields provided by Pinnacor, storing them in an Oracle database for daily builds on MEDLINEplus. Continuing to receive the news feed from Pinnacor will avoid the need for costly, and time consuming reprogramming of the input system and retraining of MEDLINEplus staff members. Reuters extensive network of journalists attends and reports from more than 1,000 medical meetings and scientific symposia in the U.S. and abroad where results are often released before they appear in journals. In addition they have access to leading journals pre-embargo which enables them to develop background and supplementary information in time to release the related story by the embargo date. The Reuters HealtheLine provides original content mass media stories written primarily for the health consumer. Topics covered include health and wellness, biomedical research findings, new drug information, new disease treatments, and information on specific diseases and treatments. Continued service from the original sources are necessary to assure the continued delivery of high quality news stories essential to a major information service provided by the library. No other sources or combination of sources provides the same breadth and timeliness of news coverage as Pinnacor and Reuters. Further awards to any other sources would result in both substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition and unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements. The period of performance is anticipated for a period of twelve (12) months with two (2) one-year option periods. The proposed acquisition will be procured under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items. This is not a Request for Quotation (RFQ), nor is an RFQ available, however, all responsive sources may submit a proposal in a timely manner which will be considered by NLM. Firms interested in responding to the notice must be able to provide the services as specified above. Responses must be in writing and must be received in the office within fifteen (15) calendar days from the publication date of this notice. Proposal must include pricing information. Inquires regarding this procurement may be made to the National Library of Medicine, Office of Acquisitions Management, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room B1N20, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, Attention: Uyen H. Phuong, Lead Purchasing Agent, on (301) 496-6127. Fax requests WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
- Record
- SN00230631-W 20021228/021226213157 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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