2025 SOW Various eJournal Subscriptions.docx
DOCX document 26 KB Posted
- Solicitation number
- 36C77625Q0009
About this file
This document is a Statement of Work (SOW) for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to procure a subscription-based collection of electronic journals from various publishers. The VHA requires access to a web-based platform that provides full-text access to a list of critical medical and health sciences journals, including titles such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine. The contractor must provide unrestricted, immediate access to these journals for all VHA users, including remote users with VPN access. The performance period is 12 months from the date of award, from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025. The contract type is Firm-Fixed Price.
The related federal contract opportunity is a Pre-Solicitation notice for the "R605--Various eJournals Subscription FY25" requirement, with Solicitation Number 36C77625Q0009. The Government anticipates issuing a single-award, Firm-Fixed-Price contract. Interested contractors must provide evidence of their capability to fulfill the requirements, including company information, GSA contract number (if applicable), and business size/status. Responses are due by November 1, 2024.
View the file
Other files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| 36C77625Q0009.docx | DOCX document |
On GovTribe
Work with this file
- Download the original file
- Contacts named in this file
- Similar government files
- Ask GovTribe AI about this file
Text version
Statement of Work Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration 2025 Various eJournal Subscriptions
A. Background/Description of Need:
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires an existing, commercial, off-the-shelf, web-based electronic journal collection. This requirement is for subscriptions from various Publishers that will be made available throughout the VA healthcare system.
The Library Network Office (LNO) has collected Medical and Health Sciences journal publishers’ content for the last eleven years. LNO subscriptions includes peer-reviewed journals in many medical specialties. Those journals are authored by renowned scientists, researchers, scholars, and professionals. Its journal content platform allows the user to browse by subject, and to drill down to the journal and individual title level.
The journal titles listed in Section B. were selected by VHA clinical staff as critical to providing reference information at the point of care/treatment used by them.
VHA’s goal is to ensure uniform availability to a subscription-based collection of high quality, clinical, full text electronic journals across the VHA system to improve clinical decision making at the point of care.
B. Scope of Work:
The contractor shall provide electronic access to the following list of titles:
· Journal of Clinical Oncology
· Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM)
· New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) AI
· Journal of Cognitive Neurosciences
· Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (JCP)
· Radio Graphics & Radiology Combo Subscription
· Journal of EMDR Practice & Research
The contractor shall provide all sites on the VHA network with access to a single online, web-based subscription to the journal titles listed. Authentication shall be through VA gateway IP address validation on an enterprise basis, eliminating the need for users to enter identification. Access must include the Liblynx IPs added to the collection of resources are presented. These journals must include VA Gateway IPs and LibLynx IPs 157.230.189.45 and 162.243.143.27.
The contractor shall provide an unrestricted number of simultaneous with immediate access from any web-enabled computer within VA. It is required that all authorized remote users with VPN access have access to the journals as well.
The contractor shall assure that journal(s) issue access is made available when the issue is posted online. Currency of content is a major consideration to VHA.
Access to the titles should be up to date with no period of embargo to the full text.
Articles can be freely shared or emailed among VHA colleagues.
C. Performance Period: Twelve (12) months from the date of award (one year).
01/01/2025-12/31/2025
D. Type of Order
Firm-Fixed Price (FFP)
File details come from the government source that posted it. Updated .