Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration VA701-17-N-0138 SPECIAL NOTICE NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE The Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) Office of Community Engagement (OCE), Center for Compassionate Innovation (CCI) and Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) intends to award, on a sole-source basis, a fixed price purchase order to Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) 5200 Butler Pike Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462-1298 under the Authority of FAR 13.501(a). ECRI will provide membership and access for 15 OCE/CCI and QUERI employees to a repository of information/reports that were previously compiled by ECRI Institute focused on various health conditions, treatment modalities, and medical technologies that will provide summaries of research and clinical literature, evidence-based practices, anecdotal evidence, and clinical safety information necessary to attain the clinical benefits and risks associated with a topic, reports with literature reviews, evidence-based practice information, and anecdotal reports that address various topics, report information, based on a review of existing guidelines, on the safety and risk/benefit ratio of a given clinical modality/technology. More specifically, OCE/CCI and QUERI will have access to a database that contains reports that provide an evaluation of treatment modalities, technologies, evidence-based practices, as they relate to various domains of age, socioeconomic status, comorbid conditions, and other relevant factors of consideration to make clinical and business decisions, produce 30 reports per year based on a given topic identified by OCE/CCI and/or QUERI, and ECRI Institute will review existing literature to provide a thorough report that highlights research outcomes, FDA clearance, potential clinical utility, and safety of identified treatment modality or technology. When available, review will highlight application to a Veteran population as well as identified age groups, demographic variations, geographic location, comorbid conditions, and other relevant factors of consideration to make clinical and business decisions. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be accepted. However, any responsible source who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency, only if received by the closing date and time of this notice. A determination not to compete the proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government Responses to this notice are due on or before Monday May 15, 2017 at 10:00AM Eastern Local Time by email to
[email protected] . Point of contact for this notice is Laurie Walker, Contract Officer Email addresses listed above. Contracting Office Address: Department of Veterans Affairs Program Contract Activity Central 6150 Oak Tree Blvd suite 300 Independence, Ohio 44131