Access Medicine and Acess Pharmacy

Added: Jan 11, 2016 11:35 am Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition
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1. Agency: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Health and Human
Services
Program Offices: Office of the Commissioner
Office of Operations
Office of Information Management
FDA Library
Project Officer: Colleen Pritchard FDA Library
WO2 Room 3326
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20993
Tel: 301-796-2373
Contracting Activity: Karen Conroy
Contract Specialist
781-587-7452 Karen.Conroy@fda.hhs.gov
2. Nature of Action Being Proposed for Approval:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Library is requesting approval of a site license providing unlimited access to Access Medicine and Access Pharmacy from McGraw Hill Professional.
3. Title and Description of Supplies or Services and Estimated Value:
a. Project Title - Access to Medicine/Access Pharmacy
b. Contract/Order No. - HHSF223201610020P
c. Description of supplies or services: The objective of this requirement is to obtain site licenses to Access Medicine up to 10 users and Access Pharmacy for unlimited users.
d. Estimated Dollar Value: $258, 060.21
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4. StatutoryAuthority:
This acquisition is conducted under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 3304 (e) (1) (A) and FAR 13.501 (a) "Sole Source Acquisitions."
5. Contractor's Unique Qualifications to Provide the Services or Supplies and/or Why
The Nature of the Acquisition Requires Use of the Authority Cited.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Library requires online access to Access Medicine, an online collection of medical McGraw-Hill reference works and resources. These are core reference works in clinical subject areas important to FDA reviewers and researchers. They are updated regularly to reflect the most recent advances medical research and provide ContinuingMedical Education (CME) credits. The online version of these works will provide access agency wide and eliminate the need to purchase multiple print copies.
Access Pharmacy is an online curricular resource for pharmacy education. It allows access to a select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across over 20 pharmacy and medical online references. It includes functional calculators, lab test information, and an integrated drug database.
Market research conducted (see Section 8) indicates that McGraw-Hill is the publisher, holds the copyright, or otherwise has exclusive access to the following pharmacological texts which the FDA Library considers essential. Institutional online full-text and graphics licenses for all texts are exclusively through Access Medicine or Access Pharmacy:
Access Medicine:
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Williams Obstetrics, Williams Gynecology, Adams & Victor's Principles of Neurology, Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, Basic& Clinical Pharmacology, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Current Diagnosis & Treatment, Tintinalli's EmergencyMedicine, Basic & Clinical Biostatistics, Ganong's
Review of Medical Physiology, Medical Epidemiology, Lichtman's Atlas of Hematology, Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Williams Hematology, Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas, Vaughan & Asbury's General Ophthalmology, Gastrointestinal Physiology , Endocrine Physiology, Concise Pathology, Clinical Neuroanatomy, Greenspan's Basic
and Clinical Endocrinology, CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Cardiology, Clinical Anesthesiology, CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in FamilyMedicine, CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Nephrology& Hypertension, Junqueira's Basic Histology, Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology and CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: EmergencyMedicine.
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Access Pharmacy:
Casarett & Doull's Essentials of Toxicology, Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Applied Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care, Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry, Medical Epidemiology, and Applied Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics.
6. Description of Efforts Made to Ensure Offers Are Solicited from As Many Potential
Sources As Practicable.
A notice of intent to award a sole source with McGraw Hill was posted to Federal Business Opportunities on November 24, 2014. There were no inquiries from interested parties.
7. Determination by the Contracting Officer that the Anticipated Cost to the Government will be Fair and Reasonable.
Prior to the award of the proposed contract/order, pricing information will be obtained from the proposed contractor and price analysis will be performed and documented to sufficiently determine that the cost to the Government of the proposed acquisition will be fair and reasonable.
8. Description of the Market Survey Conducted and the Results, or Statement of the
Reasons a Market Survey was not conducted.
The Contract Specialist conducted market research for Access Medicine / Access
Pharmacy and the textbooks as follows:
1) A Google search to find licensed vendors selling the textbooks in either hard- copy or digital format.
2) Identifying the publisher of the textbooks under the idea that a textbook not published byMcGraw-Hill may be available through other sources or that the publisher would offer online access through their own portal or licenses use through other portals.
3) Contacting personnel at the FDA Library to ask if they knew of additional sources or potential sources for the textbooks.
4) An FBO search for references to Access Medicine and Access Pharmacy.
5) A search for other major online compendiums of medical and scientific textbooks.
6) Search of GSA Advantage! and NASA SEWP!
7) Contacting the vendor.
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The results of the market research did show that this product is no longer sold on a GSA schedule or through any other federal procurement vehicles, and that textbooks are available in hard-copy book format from many sources. However, the FDA Library explicitly requires online access - not physical textbooks. The only source that provides online access to all the required information is from McGraw-Hill.
9. Other Relevant Facts Supporting the Proposed Noncompetitive Acquisition. Attached to this JOFOC is a statement from McGraw-Hill stating that McGraw-Hill "does not currently participate with any government procurement vehicles for Access Medicine and Access Pharmacy" and that "McGraw-Hill is the sole source provider of the products...and does not utilize any resellers."
10. Sources that have Expressed Interest in the Acquisition inWriting.
No other sources have expressed interest in this requirement.
11. Statement of Actions, if any, to Remove or Overcome Barrier to Competition Before any Subsequent Acquisition for the Supplies or Services.
The FDA will continue to monitor the marketplace for alternative sources for the required information that could provide competition for this requirement.
12. Provide a statement that indicates that the use of the Justification for procuring this supply or service is not a result of a lack of planning or the expiration of funds.
The use of the justification for procuring of these services is not a result of lack of planning or the expiration of funds.
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Certification and Signatures:
Program Office Certification:
This is to certify that the data supporting this justification is the responsibility of the undersigned program office personnel, including verifying the Government's minimum needs or schedule requirements or other rationale for other than full and open competition justification (pursuant to 13.501 (a)) which form a basis for this justification, and that such data and rationale are accurate and complete.
Colleen Pritchard Date
Contracting Officer's Representative (COR)
Date
COR's Supervisor
Todd Simpson Date
FDA Chief Information Officer
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Contracting Officer Certification:
I certify that this submission is accurate and contains complete data necessary to support the recommendations for approval. The contracting officer further certifies that an award of this contract action from this requirement will be made only if the price or cost to the Government is determined to be fair and reasonable.
Karen Conroy Date
Contract Specialist
Approved:
Tzeleong Chang Date
Contracting Officer
Concur:
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Brendan McCarthy Date
Acting Division Director