P01- Draft_SOW_HIG SST Various eJournals - 1st QTR FY21.docx
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This document outlines a request for information for an electronic journal subscription. The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking market research to identify potential sources for a future solicitation to provide an existing commercial off-the-shelf web-based collection of clinical electronic journals. The subscription would provide access across the VA healthcare system from December 2020 through December 2021 with an award date of December 15, 2020. Responses are requested by October 26, 2020 and should not exceed 20 pages, addressing past experience on similar projects, capabilities and qualifications to fulfill the scope of work, and comments on the draft statement of work, including recommendations to clarify requirements. The VA seeks to obtain fixed pricing for certain functional areas under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity blanket purchase agreement.
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Statement of Work Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration
HIG SST Various eJournals Subscription – 1st QTR FY21
September 2020
| A. | General Information | |
| 1.0 | Introduction: |
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires an existing, commercial, off-the-shelf, web-based electronic journal (eJournals) collection subscription that will be made available throughout the VA healthcare system.
VHA’s goal is to ensure uniform availability to a subscription-based collection of high quality, clinical, full-text electronic journals across the VA system to improve clinical decision making at the point of care. See Title/Price Schedule below.
2.0 Scope of Work:
a. The contractor shall provide all sites on the VHA network with access to a single online, web-based subscription to the journal titles listed in Section B. Authentication shall be through IP address validation on an enterprise basis, eliminating the need for users to enter identification, username and/or password.
b. 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 product. A username and/or password option shall be offered for remote users if needed.
c. The contractor shall assure the requirements listed in paragraphs 4, Usability, 5, Currency, and 6, Access, Content, Support, are addressed.
3.0 Performance Period: 12/31/2020 – 12/30/2021; request award/effective date of 12/15/2020 to allow 15-days lead time for publisher to process subscription and activate access privileges.
4.0 Usability: The contractor shall assure that searching and navigating within the system is logical and easy to use. Searching quickly retrieves material of high relevance. Users can search by journal title, volume, issue, year, and page numbers in addition to text or keyword searches.
5.0 Currency: The contractor shall assure that journal(s) issue access is available when the issue is posted online.
6.0 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. Usage statistics at an IP level are available.
c. The product is accessible via a variety of personal mobile devices including Apple and Android devices.
d. Full-text articles are available in PDF format.
e. Access to the titles should be up-to-date with no period of embargo to the full-text.
f. Articles can be emailed among VHA colleagues.
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