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36C77620Q0031 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION/SOURCES SOUGHT VHA, Office of Health Informatics (OHI), Library Network Office (LNO) Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) Library Subscription Services INTRODUC... 36C77620Q0031 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION/SOURCES SOUGHT VHA, Office of Health Informatics (OHI), Library Network Office (LNO) Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) Library Subscription Services INTRODUCTION This Sources Sought notice is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA is currently conducting market research to locate qualified, experienced, and interested potential sources. Responses will not be considered as proposals, nor will any award be incurred by interested parties in responding to this sources sought announcement. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is seeking interested sources (contractors) for a near-future solicitation and procurement for OHI. At this time, no solicitation exists. Therefore, DO NOT REQUEST A COPY OF THE SOLICITATION. BACKGROUND The VA requires services to efficiently maintain subscriptions from multiple publishers. The VA Library Network (VALNET) is seeking Contractors with established relationships with publishing houses to provide basic subscription, required support, and optional specialized electronic access services in support of Veterans care. Currently, VA has two national level Basic Order Agreement s (BOA) for approximately 153 VA Medical Centers (VAMC) to fulfill requirements for periodicals, database subscriptions, e-book subscriptions, e-journal subscriptions, point of care subscriptions, and further online information resource related services. The scope of this effort falls in line with VA s mission, goals and objectives in support of providing Veterans care. Contractors shall be responsible for the management, labor and equipment necessary to provide subscriptions for databases, e-books, e-journals, point-of-care and other related online services from multiple publishing houses to various VA Libraries located throughout the United States. Subscriptions shall include single or multiple addresses for domestic and foreign periodicals and related services. Related services include paying publishers, handling claims for non-receipt, cancellations, submission of required reports and other service problems. The Contractors shall provide these services for up to approximately 153 libraries and throughout the Department. Title listings provided by VAMC Libraries will vary. Approximately 85% of subscriptions placed by the Customers will be renewal subscriptions. See Attached Draft SOW and Subscription List for additional information. SUBMITTAL INFORMATION Responses will assist in determining the acquisition strategy used for this procurement. For example, if enough responsible and capable Small Businesses respond, the acquisition strategy will most likely be a small business set-aside; therefore, interested vendors who are responsible and capable of performing the work are strongly encouraged to respond by the date specified. At this time no acquisition strategy has been decided. Contractors having the skills and capabilities necessary to perform the stated requirements are invited to submit a response. The following Information is requested in response to this RFI: Please include: Company Name, Company Address, Point of Contact, Telephone Number, e-mail Address, and DUNS Number. Companies should provide clear and unambiguous evidence to substantiate their capability to fulfill these requirements. Experience Please provide no more than five (5) contracts that your company has performed within the last three (3) years that are of comparable complexity and scope for each domain requirement for which your company is responding: Describe your Self-Performed* effort (as either a Prime or Sub-Contractor). Please be specific and provide a complete reference to include at a minimum the project name (and the government contract number, if applicable), contract award amount, start and completion dates, and the project owners contact information. Additionally, please provide the Contract Type: Firm Fixed-Price, Time and Material, etc. *Self-Performed means work performed by the company themselves, NOT work performed by another company for them for any of the project examples provided. B. Capabilities / Qualifications Provide information detailing the electronic access services you are able to provide and the publishers/content providers you have established relationships with. Provide company business size and socioeconomic status (i.e., Large Business, Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Women-Owned Small Business) the number of years in business, affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners. This notice does not restrict the Government to an ultimate acquisition approach. All firms responding to this sources sought notice are advised that their response is not a request that will be considered for contract award. All interested parties will be required to respond to the resultant solicitation separately from their response to this sources sought notice. The Point of Contacts (POC) for this RFI are: Robert Blasko - Contract Specialist Sharif Ra-El - Contract Officer VHA Program Contract Activity Central 6150 Oak Tree Boulevard Suite 300 Independence, OH 44131 Please submit electronic responses (via email) to the POC s robert.blasko@va.gov and sharif.ra-el@va.gov - no later than 11:59PM EST on February 13, 2020. All email correspondence for this project must reference the RFI Number and Project Title in the subject line of the email: 36C77620Q0031 Library BOA.