SOLICITATION NOTICE
76 -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source
- Notice Date
- 12/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 424920
— Book, Periodical, and Newspaper Merchant Wholesalers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, NMLC, 693 Neiman Street, FT Detrick, Maryland, 21702-9203, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21702-9203
- Solicitation Number
- N6890111RCW0013
- Archive Date
- 1/14/2011
- Point of Contact
- Courtney A. Piar, Phone: 301-619-7467
- E-Mail Address
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courtney.piar@med.navy.mil
(courtney.piar@med.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Naval Medical Logistics Command intends to negotiate on a sole source basis (IAW FAR 13.501) with EBSCO Information Services, 10 Estes Street, P. O. Box 682, Ipswich, MA 01938, as the only responsible source that can provide an online electronic subscription to Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) with Full Text Database. This acquisition is being conducted under the FAR 13.5 test procedures for commercial items. Provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-24 are incorporated. NAVMISSA has a requirement for an online electronic subscription the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) with Full Text Database. The CINAHL with Full Text Database provides searching of bibliographic records for indexed articles, as well as links from the citations to the full text articles for 580 journals, including 278 journals where the full text articles are not duplicated in any other database products. The electronic version of the CINAHL with Full Text database is a proprietary product that is developed, published, marketed, and distributed solely by EBSCO Information Systems. No other vendor sells electronic access to this product. CINAHL with Full Text has been selected as a standard online medical reference by both the US Army and US Air Force medical library communities. Both the US Army and US Air Force have purchased subscriptions to supply their healthcare providers. CINAHL will ensure that Navy providers have the same access as the other armed service branches to highly requested reference products. It will also ensure the necessary standardization of online reference materials in the current tri-service medical environment. Items being purchased in this acquisition: Subscription to an online electronic subscription the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) with Full Text Database (1 year with 4 option years included) This acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition procedures. There are no set-aside restrictions for this requirement. The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 424920 with a Small Business Size Standard of 500 employees. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document exists for this requirement. However, parties interested in responding to this notice shall submit technical data, including cost, sufficient to determine capability in providing the same product. All capability statements received by closing of this notification of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete based on 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. Based on the above information, the only technically acceptable system is provided by EBSCO Information Services. Submit email capability statements (using PDF, MS Word, Excel attachments) to Courtney Piar at Courtney.piar@med.navy.mil. Fax quotes may be sent to 301-619-1132 Attn: Courtney Piar. Email statements are preferred. Statements are due not later than 1:00 P.M. EST on 30 December 2010. No phone calls accepted.
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