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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 FBO #5042
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R -- VA248-15-AP-10086 Wolters Kluwer Health (Lippincott) - Attachment

Notice Date

9/11/2015
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

511210 — Software Publishers
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Network Contracting Office 8 (248);Room 315, Bldg. 2;10,000 Bay Pines Blvd;Bay Pines FL 33744
 

ZIP Code

33744
 

Solicitation Number

VA24815N2076
 

Response Due

9/17/2015
 

Archive Date

12/16/2015
 

Point of Contact

Janice Fornaro
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

This is a Sources Sought (SS) is to obtain information regarding the availability and capability of qualified small business concerns; and their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 511210 with a size standard of $38.5 Million Dollars. Preference given to Service Disabled Veteran Owned first and Veteran Owned Small businesses second (in accordance with VAAR 819.7004) that must be registered on the VETBIZ website: https://www.vip.vetbiz.gov/Default.aspx?SCID=1640621 in order to be considered for an award. The responses to this announcement will assist in determining the availability of small businesses in consideration of a socio-economic set-aside. The requirement is to provide a subscription renewal of Online web-based access to Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott's Nursing Advisor created by Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. See Draft Statement of Work (SOW) for additional information. The Government may use the responses to this SS for information and planning purposes. The Draft SOW describes only the currently contemplated possible scope of services and may vary from the work scope in a final SOW included in any Request for Proposals (RFP) or Request for Quotes (RFQ). A single firm-fixed price contract is contemplated with the anticipated period of performance of: 7 October 2015 thru 6 October 2016 with possible four one-year option periods. Interested parties submitting a response to this inquiry must include the following information: 1. Name and address of company 2. Primary point of contact, including phone number and e-mail address 3. Applicable socioeconomic categories and any pertinent information, which demonstrates firm's ability to meet the requirement 4. Experience. Brief descriptions of recent and relevant projects for tasks similar to those in the Draft SOW (1 page maximum) Responses are due no later than 17 September 2015 @ 5:00 P.M. EST. Point of contact: Janice Fornaro, Janice.Fornaro@va.gov. DISCLAIMER This SS is issued solely for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this SS that is marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this SS. STATEMENT OF WORK 1. Title of Project: Renewal of Online access to Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills and Lippincott's Nursing Advisor created by Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2. Scope of Work: To provide access to this electronic resource to the staff of the hospital. 3. Background: The program needs to be internet-based. 4. Performance Period: An annual contract, October to September. 5. Type of Contract: A firm-fixed-price on-line subscription contract to include a base year and four option years. B. CONTRACT AWARD MEETING No meeting is required; renewal of product that is unique to libraries C. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS a.Internet based b.Unlimited online storage c.No maintenance fees d.Continually updated at no charge D. SPECIFIC MANDATORY TASKS AND ASSOCIATED DELIVERABLES Procedures and Skills Lippincott Procedures is an online point-of-care reference and training product from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This next generation of the classic Procedures product offers many added benefits. "Powerful search capability by keyword or category for more than 3,000 entries and 1,600 procedures and skills. "Coverage of medical/surgical, critical care, maternal-neonatal, pediatric, psychiatric, emergency, and perioperative specialties. "Evidence-based references ranked by Melnyk's Rating System for the Hierarchy of Evidence Links to more in-depth information such as abstracts, full text articles, and research from such sources as PubMed and your organization's library. "Customizable by adding notes or personalized checklists for your own organization's protocols, procedures, drug updates and other important information "Integrated search between Lippincott Procedures and Lippincott Advisor (for subscribers of both products) allowing users to view a procedure and quickly jump to the related patient teaching handout, disease, or drug. "Content is continually updated by clinical nurses to reflect the most current evidence and practice standard "Clinical procedure and skills online tutorial available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week "Over 1600 nursing evidence-based procedures and skills with detailed, step-by-step instructions in a variety of specialty settings. "Skills checklists, which help train and evaluate staff against established standards "Question and Answer competency tests "Hundreds of video clips "All skills, checklists and tests are fully customizable to allow facility to create training that reflects the hospital's practices. "Provides nurses with accurate, up-to-date information at the point-of-care, delivers solutions that work for users with varying computer experience, ensures that your organization's procedures are documented and available to all nurses at all times, and enables efficient tracking of orientation and training. "Created by nurses for nurses. Every procedure in Lippincott Procedures has been written and validated by a practicing nurse expert in the field and is formulated on the most recent, evidence-based standards of patient care. "The product is updated as needed to reflect changes in current clinical guidelines and standards for nursing. All procedures are reviewed for updates at least annually on a rolling basis. "Current content including adherence to the most current standards and guidelines set by The Joint Commission, Intravenous Nursing Society, American Heart Association, American Blood Bank, American Associate of Critical-Care Nurses, and other leading nursing and healthcare organizations. "Current references within 3 to 5 years except for legacy references. Reference review also includes appropriateness of the references to the content. "Current images and photos. "Relevance, timeliness and completeness of the procedures. " Online, on-demand training is offered to customers. "Procedures, checklists, quick lists, and competency tests can be edited and customized to reflect your needs. There is no limit to the number of customized procedures you can add to Lippincott Procedures. This feature also includes an audit trail for tracking the author and date of all changes made. "The Administration Tools contain an option to add your institution's name and upload a logo. The name of your institution will appear on the upper left hand corner of the screen. The logo will appear on custom procedures when you print them out. "Can upload.jpg and.gif files no larger than 500 KB and flash videos less than 10 MB in size. "Administrators can use the "Reinstate Procedure" button to retrieve any standard procedure that has been deleted. However, custom procedures that have been deleted must be entered again. "Can cut and paste charts and graphs from Microsoft Office software into Lippincott Procedures "From within the Procedures tab in the Administration Tools, users have the option to view a list of all procedures with notes, all standard procedures, all draft procedures, and all custom procedures. Additionally, every procedure that has a note will have a blue or red "N" icon behind it. A blue "N" icon indicates a note and a red "N" icon indicates a critical note. "Managers can email skills checklists associated with a procedure to a specific staff nurse who is being asked to demonstrate competency of that skill. They simply use the email icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen from within the specific checklist. Administrators can record the outcome. However, there is no automated way for Lippincott Procedures to notify users when they have been assigned a skill. "Can convert your Excel file to a comma separated value file (CSV) and import it. "Procedures with video clips have audio. "Customize Nursing and Clinical categories. Categories are classified as "Standard" or "Custom." "Can search across both Lippincott Procedures and Lippincott Advisor simultaneously. "Ovid subscriptions may request linking between Lippincott Procedures and subscribed to Ovid journals, enabling them to view the full text of the articles cited as references in Lippincott Procedures. "24/7 technical assistance available. "Promotes outstanding clinical care and best practice that keep nurses prepared for reviews and unannounced site surveys. "Has current Up-to-Date Lippincott subscription for physicians. Advisor Lippincott Advisor is a clinical online reference tool available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is made up of an expanding collection of over 3,000 evidence-based entries covering diagnostic tests, diseases, treatments, signs and symptoms, drugs, patient education and handouts, nursing care plans, references, images, guidelines, and more. It is a point-of-care virtual library developed specifically for nurses. "Ability to access more than 3,000 sources that address the majority of information nurses need at the point of care without reviewing an extended list of books and articles. " No need to search through lengthy textbook articles or voluminous Internet search returns to find the relevant information. "Consistent use of terms across all topic areas employing the most medically acceptable terminology. "Choose the specific information needed from a list of topics presented by category such as diseases, drugs, or diagnostic tests. "Enter a search term that returns a specific topic or results ordered by relevance. "Quickly scroll through information presented. "Follow a link to a specific section of the topic Follow links to related content (such as drug information, associated diseases, treatments and signs and symptoms). "Click to search on any word or content. "Evidence-based references are provided to support all the diseases, diagnostic tests, and treatments. "Ability to add protocols or notes to existing disease, diagnostic test, treatment, sign and symptom, and drug topics as well as add new ones. "Includes MedFacts Medication Patient Handouts. "Can be accessed from Lippincott Procedures as a separate browser window. A link is visible on the Lippincott Procedures menu bar for customers that have purchased Lippincott Advisor. "Ovid subscriptions links between Lippincott Advisor and subscribed to OVID journals, enabling them to view the full text of the articles cited as references in Lippincott Advisor. "Weekly drug updates are provided. Disease and Treatment information is updated annually based on a rolling quarterly review process. Signs and Symptoms and Diagnostic Test information is updated every 3 years. MedFacts Patient Handouts are updated quarterly. Critical content changes are made as needed. "Can search across both Lippincott Procedures and Lippincott Advisor simultaneously. "Enables your nurses to practice autonomously in any unit at any time by building confidence in their decisions through delivery of quick, relevant and authoritative answers within their workflow. "Contributes a conduit to integrate a culture of evidence-based best practice into your institution's framework. "Makes appropriate patient teaching readily available at all times with patient education for every entry. "Provides a tool for patient care planning. "Ensures staff is referencing the same content at all times. With staff trained on both products, they have the ability to cross reference both products. Only one other product is comparable, Elsevier's Mosby Nursing Skills which we already have, which the Library Network Office is now supplying to all VA facilities. A major reason why our nursing staff wants to stay with Lippincott is the time saved by knowing, accepting and approving the 1400 "Lippincott Standard Procedures" list. This approved list allows nursing staff to take expert care of patients at the bedside immediately. Procedures and Advisor is a point-of-care database. The content creation is evidenced-based, peer-reviewed, and current. Procedures offers a full series of behavioral health procedures. Procedures are updated annually. All procedures have the evidence-based references cited at the end of the procedure. Multiple references are used versus only on textbook source like Mosby's. Procedures offers a full election in all the specialty areas needed to practice in a hospital setting. User testing demonstrates that the name of LWW sections and the tabs used to navigate LWW product are very user-friendly and intuitive. Procedures clearly focuses on quick point of care access by helping the nurse get in, get the information he/she needs, and get out without a lot of unnecessary scanning which is detrimental to the care of the patient. The procedure view in Procedures can be customized based on the elements the customer want to view or print (i.e. equipment, implementation, etc.). Procedures offers quicker and more accurate searching with advanced search functionality. Since this is a point-of-care; evidence based database it helps nurses and other clinical staff make life and death decisions with the patient population. Lippincott has also partnered with Joint Commission Resources publishing group who will help edit specific Lippincott Nursing Solution content as this is not the case with Mosby. E. EVALUATED OPTIONAL FEATURES Hosted on a web platform. F. SCHEDULE FOR DELIVERABLES Program will be made available as soon as purchase is completed. G. CHANGES TO THE STATEMENT OF WORK Since this is a fixed price for a specific off-the-shelf product, no changes will be needed. H. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS Any questions or issues are addressed by the vendor within 8 hours of notification. I. TRAVEL No travel is needed or required. J. GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES Government will not need to furnish any materials/equipment, as employees will use already-acquired hospital computers. Staff and veterans may also access the catalog from home or other locations from any Internet-ready computer. K. CONTRACTOR EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS Qualifications of Key Personnel (Standard mandatory language for all task orders) Because this is an off-the-shelf product and qualifications of key personnel have already been established and made available online, no approval/rejection of key personnel is needed or necessary. Time and Materials Task Orders N/A Firm-Fixed-Price Task Orders This is a firm fixed price. No particular level of expertise, other than already specified, is required. The contractor assumes all risk to provide the specified deliverable by the due date, with the proposed technical team, or may be charged liquidated damages. L. CONFIDENTIALITY AND NONDISCLOSURE No sensitive information will be held or exchanged. No access to VA information or equipment is needed. M. CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL SECURITY REQUIREMENTS None needed.
 

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