SOLICITATION NOTICE
76 -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source
- Notice Date
- 12/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 511130
— Book Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, NMLC, 693 Neiman Street, FT Detrick, Maryland, 21702-9203, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21702-9203
- Solicitation Number
- N6890111RCW0015
- Archive Date
- 1/14/2011
- Point of Contact
- Courtney A. Piar, Phone: 301-619-7467
- E-Mail Address
-
courtney.piar@med.navy.mil
(courtney.piar@med.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Naval Medical Logistics Command intends to negotiate on a sole source basis (IAW FAR 13.501) with Ovid Technologies, Inc., 100 River Ridge Drive, Suite 207, Norwood, MA 02062-5043, as the only responsible source that can provide subscription services to various biomedical, dental and nursing bibliographic databases and full text journal and textbook reference products. This acquisition is being conducted under the FAR 13.5 test procedures for commercial items. Provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-24 are incorporated. The journal and textbook products include over 400 major medical, dental and nursing journals, and 38 textbooks that are extensively used as reference sources within the Navy Medical Department claimancy. The online services provide support to 59 separate shore-based facilities as well as all shipboard medical personnel, and will allow for up to 30 simultaneous users from the covered activities to access the service. The subscription includes web-based searching and the ability to retrieve articles from full text products, as well as VT100 access for users with Composite Health Care System (CHCS) dumb terminals lacking access to microcomputers. In addition, the subscription provides full access to the MEDLINE and PSYCINFO bibliographic databases for performing literature searches and Evidence Based Medicine Reviews database. The subscription will allow for continued usage of the databases by personnel at the covered activities and will provide electronic access to the information for thousands of our health care professionals. As a cost savings measure, access to full text articles for 16 journals will be on a pay per article retrieved basis; access to other subscribed products will be unlimited. The databases will be accessible to CHCS terminal users who do not have access to microcomputers, as well as microcomputer users with a Web browser and either a direct network or dial-in Internet connection. Items being purchased in this acquisition: Subscription to Ovid Online (1 year with 4 option years included) This acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition procedures. There are no set-aside restrictions for this requirement. The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 511130 with a Small Business Size Standard of 500 employees. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document exists for this requirement. However, parties interested in responding to this notice shall submit technical data, including cost, sufficient to determine capability in providing the same product. All capability statements received by closing of this notification of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Based on the above information, the only technically acceptable system is provided by Ovid Technologies, Inc. Submit email capability statements (using PDF, MS Word, Excel attachments) to Courtney Piar at Courtney.piar@med.navy.mil. Fax quotes may be sent to 301-619-1132 Attn: Courtney Piar. Email statements are preferred. Statements are due not later than 1:00 P.M. EST on 30 December 2010. No phone calls accepted.
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