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* = Required Field FedBizOpps Special Notice Rev. March 2010 R HIG SST SCI Index and InCites Benchmarking Subscription 44131 36C77618Q9218 N 519130 Department of Veterans Affairs Program Contracting Activity Central 6150 Oak Tree Blvd, Suite 300 Independence OH 44131 Lamonte Jones Lamonte.Jones@va.gov Program Contracting Activity Central 6150 Oak Tree Blvd, Suite 300 Independence OH 44131 http://www.va.gov/ Department of Veterans Affairs Homepage Lamonte.Jones@va.gov Contract Specialist

SPECIAL NOTICE

HIG SST SCI Index and InCites Benchmarking Subscription FBO Notice: 36C77618Q9218

The NAICS code for this procurement is 519130 and the Small Business Administration Size Standard is 1000 employees.

This special notice is not a request for competitive proposals. No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be accepted. However, any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency, only if received by the closing date and time of this notice. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government.

Responses to this notice are due on or before August 15th, 2018 at 10:00 AM EDT by email to Lamonte.Jones@va.gov

Point of contact for this notice is Lamonte Jones, Contract Specialist via the above referenced email address.

Contracting Office Address:

Department of Veterans Affairs Program Contracting Activity Central 6150 Oak Tree Blvd Suite 300 Independence, OH 44131

Statement of Work Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration

HIG SST Science Citation Index (SCI) & InCites Benchmarking Subscription

August 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires an existing, commercial, off-the-shelf, web-based electronic subscription to Science Citation Index (SCI) and InCites Benchmarking which will be made available to all VA Central Office (VACO) Library staff and employees.

2.0 Background:

Science Citation Index (SCI) provides a comprehensive online index to articles from major journals in all areas of science and technology. SCI is used to find other articles citing a specific article, subject, or author (footnotes in reverse). SCI fully indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles. In addition to subject and author searching, SCI permits tracking of references cited in journal articles.

InCites Benchmarking allows the user to assess, compare, and evaluate quantitative and qualitative aspects of an organization’s research impact against peer institutions and regional/global performance baselines, and export underlying data for re-use within internal business systems.

3.0 Scope of Work:

a. The contractor shall provide all VACO employees with online access to a single online, web-based subscription to Science Citation Index (SCI) and InCites Benchmarking. Authentication shall be through IP address validation on a network gateway basis, eliminating the need for users to enter identification, username and/or password.

b. The contractor shall provide a 20-year (1998-2017) backfile upgrade along with the initial SCI and InCites Benchmarking subscription.

c. The contractor shall provide an unrestricted number of simultaneous with immediate access from any web-enabled computer within VACO. It is required that all authorized remote users with VPN access have access to the product.

d. The contractor shall assure the requirements listed in paragraphs 5, Information Scope, 6, Information Quality, 7, Usability, and 8, Access, Content, Support, are addressed.

4.0 Performance Period: One (1) year from date of award, plus four (4) one (1) year option periods to be exercised at the discretion of the Government.

5.0 Information Scope:

The contractor shall assure the product includes:

a. Knowledge-based information covering science and technology topics.

b. Citations from the world's leading journals of science and technology.

c. Comprehensive information in a single product available for stand-alone purchase or license, independent of complementary or companion products offered by the contractor.

6.0 Information Quality:

The contractor shall assure:

a. Information is accurate, authoritative, and relevant.

b. Authors and sources are well recognized subject experts in their fields.

c. Policies for determining validity and standards for inclusion of material are well described.

7.0 Usability:

The contractor shall assure:

a. Navigation within the system is logical and is easy to use.

b. The product has “user friendly” help and direction aids.

8.0 Access, Content, Support:

The contractor shall assure:

a. Product is 508 compliant (http://www.section508.gov/). If product is not 508 compliant, the contractor shall describe measures being taken to bring product into compliance and date, within 12 months of contract award, that product will be 508 compliant. Or, if product is not 508 compliant, the contractor shall describe why no work is being done to make it 508 compliant.

b. The product is compatible Internet Explorer and with most other standard web browsers, which have cookies enabled. To insure privacy, the product uses session cookies rather than persistent cookies.

c. All site content and support of the web site is the responsibility of the contractor. This includes tech support to VHA users nationwide.

d. System downtime is minimal and VA project manager is notified when such occurs.

e. Information is easily printed.

f. A single point of contact for customer service issues is assigned to VA.

g. Questions are responded to within two (2) business days.

h. Usage statistics are available to the system administrator on an enterprise and IP level.

i. The product is accessible via a variety of personal mobile devices including Apple and Android devices.