SOW Mary Ann Liebert Journal Subscriptions.docx
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This Statement of Work (SOW) details the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration's requirement for Mary Ann Liebert journal subscriptions for its healthcare system. The contract seeks a web-based electronic journal collection with unrestricted simultaneous access for VA network users, including remote VPN users, covering specific medical and health science journals. Key requirements include enterprise-wide authentication through VA gateway IP addresses, immediate access to current journal issues without embargo, and the ability for VA colleagues to freely share articles.
The solicitation is a Sources Sought Notice for a Firm-Fixed-Price contract with a performance period from 4/1/2025 to 12/30/2026, consisting of a 9-month initial period followed by a 12-month option period. Potential contractors must provide company details including SAM Unique Entity ID, GSA contract number, contact information, business size/status, and an authorized publisher reseller letter. Responses were requested by 5/4/2025 at 1:00 PM EST, to be emailed to Erich.Hoffman@va.gov, with the specific journal of focus being the Mary Ann Liebert Journal of Women's Health.
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Statement of Work Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration
2025 Mary Ann Liebert Journal Subscriptions
| 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 collection. This requirement is for subscriptions from Mary Ann Liebert 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 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.
3.0 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. 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.
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 journals as well.
4.0 Performance Period: Start date 4/1/2025 - 12/30/2026 – (1) 9 MONTH CONTRACT THEN (1) 12 Month Contract
6.0 Currency: 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.
a. Articles can be freely shared or emailed among VHA colleagues.
B. Title Schedule:
Mary Ann Liebert
Journal of Women’s Health (Mary Ann Liebert)
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