SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- UpToDate Medical Database Subscription
- Notice Date
- 3/16/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 518112
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- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;ASC - VISN 9;3400 Lebanon Pike;Murfreesboro TN 37129
- ZIP Code
- 37129
- Solicitation Number
- VA-249-07-RQ-0127
- Response Due
- 3/28/2007
- Archive Date
- 4/27/2007
- Description
- The VISN 9 Acquisition Service Center intends to award a sole source contract under the authority of FAR Part 6 to Up-To-Date, Inc, 95 Sawyer Rd, Waltham, MA, for an on-line subscription database to access clinical resource information for a base period of 5 months with 2 one year optional renewal periods. VA requires clinical reference material in electronic form through database access providing: A) ready reference to current consult-level topics in internal medicine, family practice, and obstetrics/gynecology and other subspecialties in a format suitable for attending level physicians, students, nurse practitioners, house staff and other point of care health providers. B) VA requires on-line medical subscription database to provide original content, consisting of a minimum of 6000 topic reviews, with a minimum of 3000 contributing authors. C) VA requires extensive hyper linking within and between source documents allowing for links such as drugs used in treatment, literature references, tables and additional information. D) VA requires online subscription to have greatest ease of access with the fewest steps/clicks to connect to the searched subject. E) There should be an easily-accessible link to a drug interaction database. F) There should be an easily-accessible section for patient information suitable for creating handouts to patients. G) There should be a section on 'recent updates' (can be identified by name), that is easily accessible. VA requires online subscription to have the greatest ease of use with navigational links to be readily available to go to specific sections. Qualified businesses other than Up-To-Date must submit in writing sufficient evidence demonstrating they are able to provide all requirements listed herein (A-G) on or before March 28, 2007, 2:00pm local time. Evidence must contain complete description of proposed software and licenses, including narrative and capabilities of contractor's subscription database. Upon receipt of this information the contracting officer will determine whether to conduct a competitive procurement or proceed with sole source negotiations. This is not a request for competitive proposals.
- Record
- SN01252968-W 20070318/070316220724 (fbodaily.com)
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