7630--VISN4 Online Journal Subscriptions (VA-22-00000117)

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics, Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown NJ intends to enter into a contract on a basis of full and open competition on Contract Opportunities to provide high quality, effective, and efficient online journal subscriptions from multiple publishers to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of-care as well as throughout all the points of the Veterans health care in an effective, timely and compassionate manner.

The Period of Performance for the Optional Tasks have been hereby revised to 12 months.

All responses due no later than 2PM EST on Tuesday December 7, 2021. Any inquiries shall be submitted to Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew.Newell@va.gov with the combined synopsis solicitation number, 36C10B22R0001, as the subject line.

The Points of Contact (POCs) for this action are Tinamarie Giraud, Contract Specialist, Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew Newell, Contracting Officer, Matthew.Newell@va.gov.

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Response to Questions and Answers for

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General

Can you take your attachments A & C and create one excel for the required title list that would also include the title name, ISSN, format & a notes column ? Having two separate attachments A & C is very confusing and not clear.

VA cannot provide consolidated attachment but the offeror need only respond in Attachment A.

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General

Please confirm if there are multiple sites/locations: the IP Ranges are needed to be confirmed with publishers when requesting pricing. Please advise this information

Sites are listed in Attachment A. The IP addresses will be provided at the during kick off meeting as outlined in section 5.0.

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Attachment A

Regarding Attachment A: Regarding Lebanon: There is clinical staff = 764 listed on a few titles, and then also 1751 Employees listed under Federal Soup. Is the 764 number included in the FTE total of 1751?:

The 764 number is included in the FTE total.

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Price Schedule

In the FINAL Solicitation under the Price Schedule for BASE year, it indicates they want subscriptions for 11, 9, 8, 6 months? Some publishers will pro-rate and others will not. Please confirm this is what you want.

VA would like the months as outlined in the price schedule.

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Extension

We would also respectfully request an extension to 12/15/21 to allow time to review your answers and allow us to reach out to publishers with accurate information.

VA cannot extend request at this time.

Response to Questions and Answers for

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Attachment A

Please confirm if the title should be Physical Therapy Online?

The appropriate title for this journal is Physical Therapy from Oxford Journals.

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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics, Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown NJ intends to enter into a contract on a basis of full and open competition on Contract Opportunities to provide high quality, effective, and efficient online journal subscriptions from multiple publishers to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of-care as well as throughout all the points of the Veterans health care in an effective, timely and compassionate manner. This effort shall include all of VISN4 s online journal subscriptions that are not provided by the Library Network Office (LNO). This effort is proposed to be awarded to the lowest priced technically acceptable respondent in accordance with Section E.7 of the Solicitation. The period of performance shall consist of a 12-month base period including four 12-month option periods and optional tasks to include subscriptions for additional facilities as outlined in Attachment B and Section B.3 Price Schedule.

All responses due no later than 2PM EST on December 2, 2021. Any inquiries shall be submitted to Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew.Newell@va.gov with the combined synopsis solicitation number, 36C10B22R0001, as the subject line. The Points of Contact (POCs) for this action are Tinamarie Giraud, Contract Specialist, Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew Newell, Contracting Officer, Matthew.Newell@va.gov.

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The solicitation due date is hereby extended to Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 12 PM EST.

If you are interested in quoting please express your interest by Monday October 25, 2021 at 3PM EST. Conversely, if you are interested in quoting however cannot fulfill a subscription(s) please notify Tinamarie Giraud and Matthew Newell at the information below with specific details.

All inquiries shall be submitted to Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew.Newell@va.gov with the combined synopsis solicitation number, 36C10B22R0001, as the subject line. The Points of Contact (POCs) for this action are Tinamarie Giraud, Contract Specialist, Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov, 848-377-5256 and Matthew Newell, Contracting Officer, Matthew.Newell@va.gov, 848-377-5170.

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The solicitation due date is hereby extended to October 21, 2021 at 12 PM EST.

Any inquiries shall be submitted to Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew.Newell@va.gov with the combined synopsis solicitation number, 36C10B22R0001, as the subject line. The Points of Contact (POCs) for this action are Tinamarie Giraud, Contract Specialist, Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew Newell, Contracting Officer, Matthew.Newell@va.gov.

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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics, Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown NJ intends to enter into a contract on a basis of a Small Business Set Aside to provide high quality, effective, and efficient online journal subscriptions from multiple publishers to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of-care as well as throughout all the points of the Veterans health care in an effective, timely and compassionate manner. This effort shall include all of VISN4 s online journal subscriptions that are not provided by the Library Network Office (LNO). This effort is proposed to be awarded to the lowest priced technical acceptable respondent in accordance with Section E.7 of the Solicitation. The period of performance shall consist of a 12-month base period including four 12-month option periods and optional tasks to include subscriptions for additional facilities as outlined in Attachment B and Section B.3 Price Schedule.

Any inquiries shall be submitted to Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew.Newell@va.gov with the combined synopsis solicitation number, 36C10B22R0001, as the subject line. The Points of Contact (POCs) for this action are Tinamarie Giraud, Contract Specialist, Tinamarie.Giraud@va.gov and Matthew Newell, Contracting Officer, Matthew.Newell@va.gov.