The Department of Veteran Affairs, VISN 2 Network Contracting Office intends to award a sole source contract for the Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention located at the Canandaigua VA Medical Center, 400 Fort Hill Avenue, Canandaigua NY 14424. This proposed contract action is for a service in which the Government intends to award a one year (12 month), firm, fixed-price contract with only one source, Reed Elsevier, Inc. dba LexisNexis of 9393 Springboro Pike, Miamisburg, OH 45342-4424 under the authority Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 6.302-1 (a)(2), only one responsible source. The requirement is to assist the Center of Excellence in identifying lifestyle indicators using eight different public records searches in order to get an entire view of the Veteran through public and proprietary information. Data for suicide mortality and Veteran status is required as part of an on-going effort to understand the relative burden of suicide among Veterans of United States Military Service, and the identification of characteristics that may be unique to Veterans. The data used to calculate measures of reliability and validity of Veteran identification using State-based death certificate data with linkage to Department of Defense and Veterans Health Administration service records to gain access to information such as; bankruptcy and judgment searches, deceased indicators, marriage and divorce searches and information on relatives, etc. LexisNexis links new entities and information into repositories using their experience, reference data, algorithms and tools within an XML-based application programming interface which allows users to search the extensive data quickly and efficiently while filtering out unnecessary inactive and duplicate entries forming an on-going current active listing. Searches include, but are not limited to, Advanced Person Search, People at Work, Mobile Access, Jail Booking, People in the News and the National Motor Vehicle Accident Search and Report. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 519130 with a size standard of 500 employees. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the service in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 1:00 p.m. EST on July 29, 2013. Such capabilities and qualifications will be evaluated solely of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. No RFQ or solicitation will be issued based upon this Notice of Intent. Interested parties may submit any information for consideration by the Government to the email address shown below with solicitation number referenced in the subject line. The Government will not be responsible for any cost incurred in proposal preparation. The VISN 2 Network Contracting Office intends to award a sole source contract (2) business days after publication of this notice. POC is Richard Williams, Contracting Officer, who can be reached via email at:
[email protected]. No phone calls will be accepted.