SOW Clinical eBook Purchase 02.docx

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This statement of work outlines a requirement by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration to purchase clinical eBooks from various publishers for use throughout the VA healthcare system. The statement of work specifies that the contractor shall provide access to a single, web-based collection of eBooks including titles such as Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century, Clinical Guide to Antineoplastic Therapy, and Kaplan & Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry. The eBooks must be accessible via IP authentication from any web-enabled device, including mobile devices, and include usage statistics and the ability to freely email chapters among VA colleagues. The performance period for the one-time eBook purchase is fiscal year 2023.

The related federal contract opportunity is a request for information for clinical eBook purchases with solicitation number 36C77623Q0457 issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center Austin.

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Statement of Work Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration

2023 April New Clinical eBooks Purchases

A.General Information
1.0Introduction

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires an existing, commercial, off-the-shelf, web-based eBooks collection. This requirement is for eBooks from various Publishers that will be made available throughout the VA healthcare system.

2.0 Background:

The Library Network Office (LNO) has collected Medical and Health Sciences eBook publishers’ content for the last eleven years. LNO eBooks includes peer-reviewed ebooks in many medical specialties. Those ebooks 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 eBook and individual title level.

The eBook 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 eBooks across the VHA system to improve clinical decision making at the point of care.

3.0 Scope of Work:

a. The contractor shall provide all sites on the VHA network with access to a single online, web-based eBooks. 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 ebooks must include VA Gateway IPs and LibLynx IPs 157.230.189.45 and 162.243.143.27.

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 ebooks as well.

c. The contractor shall assure the requirements listed in paragraphs 5, Usability, 6, Currency, and 7, Access, Content, Support, are addressed.

4.0 Performance Period: FY23 one time purchase

5.0 Usability: The contractor shall assure that searching and navigating within the system is logical and easy to use.

7.0 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 shall be accessible via a variety of personal mobile devices including Apple and Android devices.

d. Full-text articles shall be available in PDF format, If available.

e. Chapters can be freely emailed among VHA colleagues.

B. Title Schedule: BELOW

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Books 1-4

Clinical Guide to Antineoplastic Therapy: a Chemotherapy Handbook (Fourth Edition)

Cutting for Stone

Every Last Breath

Five Days at Memorial

Half American

Hidden Valley Road

Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy

Letters to a Young Doctor

LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care

Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution

Medical Apartheid

Medical Statistics Made Easy, Fourth Edition

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Once a Warrior

Planet of the Blind

Redeployment

Regeneration

The Children Act

The God of Small Things

The Good Doctor

The Great Influenza

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Tortilla Curtain

Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy

When Breath Becomes Air

Kaplan & Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry: behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry 11th ed. 2022

Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs, 2ed. 2022

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