Maintain Board of Veterans Appeals Electronic Research Materials

The Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO), Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA), Washington, DC intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for contractual services to maintain BVA’s Electronic Research Materials with indexing VADEX (VA Index), Citator (Regulatory and Statutory History), conduct attachment verification of dispatched Board decisions electronically, and provide other consultation and programming support as required. The service includes: 1) subject indexing of materials related to the adjudication of claims; 2) regulatory history and Citator tracing by subject matter for portions of Title 38 CFR through varies earlier VA regulations and documents; 3) attachment verification and quality check on all BVA’s decisions, including verifying and associating all Vacated, Corrected and Reconsidered decisions with the earlier version, scanning unavailable decisions, preparing an electronic file of unavailable decisions, transmitting the electronic file, and providing an edit list of problems for correction by BVA: 4) maintain BVA Intranet Databases; and 5) secure storage of data in electronic and microform formats. The required period of performance will be for one year, with four (4) one-year options.



This requirement is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside and the North American Industry Classification System code is 519120, with a small business standard of $7.0 million. The procurement will be conducted utilizing the commercial item procedures of FAR 12 in conjunction with FAR 15. The solicitation package will be available on or before November 22, 2010, and will be posted on Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) web page (http://www.fedbizopps.gov).