MODIFICATION
R -- Consumer Health and Medical News Source for MedlinePlus - Amendment 1
- Notice Date
- 9/24/2010
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 519110
— News Syndicates
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 105, Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- NLM-10-178-UHP
- Archive Date
- 10/19/2010
- Point of Contact
- Uyen H Phuong, Phone: 301-496-6127
- E-Mail Address
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phuongu@mail.nih.gov
(phuongu@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Attachment of GPAT This Sources Sought Notice is for informational and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation or commitment by the Government. This notice is intended strictly for Market Research. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is conducting a market survey to help determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZone small businesses capable of serving the needs identified below. 1. Background Information To assist consumers in obtaining the information they need to make informed decisions about health and wellness, the National Library of Medicine has developed MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov), an easily understandable Web resource for the public. MedlinePlus (including all of the NLM MedlinePlus branded Web sites) contains links to information from authoritative health web sites, especially those from the National Institutes of Health. Currently, MedlinePlus receives over 60 million page views per month. 2. Purpose and Objectives of the Procurement It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to procure health and medical news stories, written for a lay-audience, to be included in MedlinePlus. "MedlinePlus" means all NLM MedlinePlus branded Web sites, including but not limited to MedlinePlus, MedlinePlus en español, MedlinePlus Connect, MedlinePlus Mobile and MedlinePlus Mobile en español. Stories must be in a format for viewing with a web browser, but NLM will also consider additional news content in video or other formats. NLM will host the content on its own servers. 3. Mandatory requirements: a) NLM will host the health news stories, and retain them for public search & display for an agreed upon time (minimum of 90 days). b) News stories must cover health and medical stories of broad (national or international) interest targeted at a U.S. audience and should include: health and wellness, biomedical research results, new drug information and new disease treatments. NLM will not display or consider in-scope stories focusing on the business aspects of medicine/healthcare or stories written solely for health professionals. c) Stories must include: headline, byline, body, and published-on date. d) Vendors must provide at least five English and five Spanish in-scope health news stories daily, Monday through Friday. e) Spanish stories, if provided, must be in culturally neutral Spanish: the Spanish must be culturally neutral and not written or narrated in the style or vocabulary of a particular Spanish nationality. f) NLM is not required to display all news stories received. g) The provider must have editorial policies and procedures in place to insure the accuracy and integrity of each story. Please provide these policies and procedures. h) Delivery of content must be reliable and consistently available at least every weekday. i) Currency of information: Information must be current. Published dates and times included as a standard field are required. The vendor must also provide NLM with the ability to identify the final version of each news article and to associate that final version with all previous versions, so NLM may display only the final version. j) Attribution to outside resources provided: Information should include names and affiliations for sources quoted, and publication date and issue if source is a journal article. k) No commercial content: Information must be free of commercial endorsements or advertisements. l) Unobtrusive co-branding: Co-branding must not be intrusive. Please describe your co-branding. m) Format of content: Awardees delivers content to NLM via XML. NLM prefers to retrieve data via FTP. n) Accessibility of content: All electronic content must meet Section 508 Guidelines. See the more specific requirements below regarding Section 508 Compliance. o) NLM must be able to be index the content provided for our search engine. p) Linked headlines may appear on any MedlinePlus-branded page and in the search results for the NLM main web site. Linked headlines may also appear on the NLM homepage (http://www.nlm.nih.gov). q) NLM staff may send out linked headlines to individual subscribers by email, via RSS feeds or through links in social media applications such as twitter. r) NLM must be able to implement links to social networking sites and other online sharing forums from the individual content pages to allow MedlinePlus users to share content of interest within their social networks. NLM will implement the links through a custom solution or through a third party such as AddThis.com. MedlinePlus users will also be allowed to generate an ‘email to a friend' containing the linked headline, to generate a print version of the article on the fly, or to otherwise share for personal use. NLM can create this formatting. s) Awardees will be required to provide NLM with technical support and advance access to their files for the NLM transition team to work on necessary programming. Preferred in addition to requirements: t) For citations of journal articles in the PubMed database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed), the data provided by the vendor includes a mechanism for linking from individual news stories to the specific PubMed record/abstract. u) Equivalent news content provided in English and Spanish. (1) English stories translated or trans-created in Spanish should be delivered within 2 business days of the equivalent English story. (2) There should be a mechanism for toggling between the English and Spanish versions of a news story when it is available in both languages. v) Images are included with some stories to provide added value (indicate what percentage of stories include images). w) Story file data includes metadata such as Medical Subject Heading unique identifiers or UMLS Metathesaurus Content Unique Identifiers. x) Video or other multimedia health news stories meant for consumers are available (indicate the average frequency and volume as well as format for this news) y) Indicate other special features which are available 4. Specific requirements a. Section 508 Compliance: Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. The news files received must be Section 508 compliant. Specifically, the end product must be conformant with all applicable provisions, including: 1194.22 Web-based intranet and internet information and applications 1194.24 Video and multimedia products (if applicable to the product offering) 1194.31 Functional performance criteria. 1194.41 Information, documentation, and support. These provisions can be found at http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/standards.htm Section 508 Program Need Requirements for accessibility based on Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794d) are determined to be relevant for the following program need: "Consumer health and medical news source for MedlinePlus." Section 508 Product Requirements Technical standards from 36 CFR part 1194 Subpart B have been determined to apply to this acquisition. Solicitation respondents must describe how their proposed Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) deliverables meet at least those technical provisions identified as applicable in the attached Government Product/Service Accessibility Template (GPAT). Functional performance criteria from 36 CFR part 1194 Subpart C have been determined to apply to this acquisition. Solicitation respondents must describe how their proposed Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) deliverables meet at least those functional performance criteria identified as applicable in the attached Government Product/Service Accessibility Template (GPAT). Information, documentation, and support requirements from 36 CFR part 1194 Subpart D have been determined to apply to this acquisition. Solicitation respondents must describe how the information, documentation, and support proposed for Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) deliverables meet at least the information, documentation, and support requirements identified as applicable in the attached Government Product/Service Accessibility Template (GPAT). b. Other Technical (1) NLM servers host the Content/data for display on the NLM Web sites. (2) Files should be delivered to NLM via the Internet or available via FTP retrieval by NLM a minimum of once per business day. (3) The transfer method must be compatible with NLM's high-security environment. (4) Story files must be delivered in XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) such that allows NLM to transfer the data into our online system (5) Stories include unique identifier and/or "final" version designation to identify duplicates and updated/final stories. (6) Metadata such as Medical Subject Heading unique identifiers or UMLS Metathesaurus Content Unique Identifiers is desirable. (7) NLM must be able to index content for its search engine. (8) NLM must be able to provide users with a printer-friendly version of the individual content pages. The content vendor does not need to provide this formatting. NLM can create this formatting. (9) NLM must be able to provide users with the ability to email the individual content pages to other users. The vendor does not need to provide the service. NLM may implement this with a custom solution. (10) NLM must be able to implement links to social networking sites and other online sharing forums from the individual content pages to allow MedlinePlus users to easily share content of interest within their social networks. The links will be implemented through a custom solution or through a third party such as AddThis.com. c. Content (1) Stories must be of substantial content. The majority of stories should be a minimum of 150+ words in length. Please indicate the average reading level for your stories. (2) Titles must be accurate in spelling and grammar and also brief yet descriptive. (3) NLM must be able to edit titles for length and/or clarity (spelling out acronyms, removing extraneous words, such as "study" at the end of a headline, etc.). This Sources Sought notice is not a Request for Proposals (RFP), nor is an RFP available. Interested firms responding to this sources sought notice must adhere to the following: (a) Provide a capability statement demonstrating relevant experience, skills and ability to fulfill the Government's requirements for the above. The capability statement should contain enough sufficient detail for the Government to make an informed decision regarding your capabilities; however, the statement should not exceed 10 pages. (b) The capability statement must identify the responder's small business type and size. (c) All capability statements must be submitted electronically no later than 4:30pm Eastern Standard time on Monday October 4, 2010 to Ms. Uyen Phuong at phuongu@mail.nih.gov.
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