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This document is a Presolicitation Notice from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC), regarding the procurement of select eBook titles on the OVID platform.

The VA is intending to solicit and negotiate directly with Graham Advisory Network, Inc. for the procurement of the following eBook titles: Atlas of Amputations and Limb Deficiencies, McGlamry's Foot & Ankle Surgery, and Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. This procurement is being made under the authority of the Procurement program for small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans. The VA's Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Library Network Office has a requirement for these comprehensive, curated eBook titles to be made available to approximately 400,000 VA staff and students on the OVID platform. The goal is to ensure uniform availability of high-quality, clinical online resources and improve clinical decision-making. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. The response date is August 7, 2024 by 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

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Presolicitation Notice Presolicitation Notice

SUBJECT*
Ovid Ebooks (VA-24-00069715)

GENERAL INFORMATION

CONTRACTING OFFICE’S ZIP CODE*
44131
SOLICITATION NUMBER*
36C77624Q0296
RESPONSE DATE/TIME/ZONE
08-07-2024 11:59 EASTERN TIME, NEW YORK, USA
ARCHIVE
15 DAYS AFTER THE RESPONSE DATE
SET-ASIDE
SDVOSBC
PRODUCT SERVICE CODE*
R605
NAICS CODE*
519290
PLACE OF PERFORMANCE
Nationwide

POSTAL CODE

COUNTRY

CONTACT INFORMATION

CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS
Department of Veterans Affairs

Program Contracting Activity Central

6100 Oak Tree Blvd, Suite 490 Independence OH 44131

POINT OF CONTACT*

Contract Specialist Patrick Gibbons Patrick.Gibbons@va.gov

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

AGENCY’S URL
https://www.va.gov/
URL DESCRIPTION
Department of Veterans Affairs

AGENCY CONTACT’S EMAIL ADDRESS

EMAIL DESCRIPTION

DESCRIPTION

The Department of Veteran Affairs, Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) intends to solicit and negotiate directly with Graham Advisory Network, Inc., 2012 Riviera Ct, Raleigh, NC 27604, for the procurement of the following titles on the OVID Platform:

Atlas of Amputations and Limb Deficiencies: Surgical, Prosthetic, and Rehabilitation Principles, 5th Edition, 2023. Published by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons McGlamry’s Foot & Ankle Surgery, 5th Edition, 2021. Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry This procurement is being made under the authority of 15 U.S.C. § 657f, Procurement program for small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, as implemented by FAR 6.302-5, authorized or required by statute.

DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Library Network Office (LNO) has a requirement for the comprehensive, curated eBooks select titles listed above. This requirement will add to the hundreds of eBooks titles already purchased from vendors for access on OVID since 2015 and available to approximately 400,000 VA staff and students.

LNO requires a commercial off the shelf web-based eBook purchase that will be made available throughout the VHA healthcare system on the OVID platform.

VHA’s goals are to ensure uniform availability to a purchase-based collection of high quality, clinical online resources and to improve clinical decision making at the point of care with the acquisition of the eBooks listed above.

Access to these titles on OVID will allow VHA staff and students to access scientific literature as well as search, analyze, evaluate, and integrate research results into VA workflow.

This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals.

Point of contact for this notice is Patrick Gibbons, who can be reached by email at Patrick.Gibbons@va.gov or Andrew Schoenecker who can be reached by email at Andrew.Schoenecker@va.gov.

Contracting Office Address:

Department of Veteran Affairs Program Contracting Activity Central 6100 Oak Tree Blvd., Suite 490, Independence, Ohio 44131 End of Document

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