THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. This is a notice of intent to award a sole source under statutory 10 USC 2304(c)(1), set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Department of Veterans' Affairs, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital (JAHVH), 13000 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33612 requires a web based library subscription that offers PsycINFO database & PsycINFO Loader to include the following eBooks: A Nurse's Guide to Presenting & Publishing; A Palliative Ethic of Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life's End; AACN Protocols for Practice: Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients; AACN Protocols for Practice: Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues in Critical Care; Case Studies in Nursing Ethics; Client Teaching Guides for Home Health Care; Creative Nursing leadership and Management; Essentials of Nursing Law and Ethics; Essentials of Patient Education; Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related health Professions; Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Health Care; Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice; and Quick Look Nursing: Growth and Development Through the Lifespan. The database and eBooks should interface with Serials Solutions to allow VA users to immediately determine whether a full-text article or book is available through the library resources. The database must be able to utilize the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms as a key source for term expansion and related term queries. Search results that include not only the terms a user wants to search, but also synonymous concepts, thereby increasing search recall over exact word matches. Basic Search shall be based on Natural Language Processing (NLP). JAHVH intends to make an award to OVID Technologies, Inc., 100 River Ridge Drive, Suite 207, Norwood, MA 02062-5043. NAICS 511120 & 511130 with a size standard of 500 employees. No solicitation documents are available. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all information regarding capability received within ten (10) after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement above or submit proposals via email only to Tiffany Garfield at
[email protected] not later than 12:00 p.m. EST on December 2, 2011.