Page 1 of 1 Notice of Intent to Sole Source Business Source Premiere Subscription FBO Notice: VA701-17-N-0033 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Program Contract Activity Central (PCAC) intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2), Only One Responsible Source Available, no other source will satisfy agency requirements. The VA intends to solicit and negotiate with EBSCO Information Services; 30 Park Road, Suite 2, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 to provide the Business Source Premier research database. These products include full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines. In addition, it includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analyses. A subscription to Business Source Premier also includes regional business coverage and topical video content as described below. Regional Business Coverage Regional Business News is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Premier, provided at no additional charge. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional U.S. and Canadian business publications including titles from Crain Communications. Topical Video Content Business Source Premier offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world s leading news agency. Videos relevant to the search terms will appear in a carousel in the result list. With footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 60,000 videos covers a wide variety of topics and is used extensively by Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) Library. The NAICS code for this procurement is 519130 and the Small Business Administration Size Standard is 500 employees. 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 December 19, 2016 at 1:00PM Eastern Local Time by email to
[email protected]. Point of contact for this notice is Bernadette Bodzenta, Contract Specialist and/or Andrea Fink, Contract Officer. Email addresses listed above. Contracting Office Address: Department of Veterans Affairs Program Contract Activity Central 6150 Oak Tree Blvd Suite 300 Independence, OH 44131