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Statement of Work
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
HIG SST Oxford University Press Backfiles Subscription
July 2018
A. General Information
1.0 Introduction:
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires an existing commercial off the shelf web based subscription to Oxford University Press Backfiles, which will be made available throughout the VHA healthcare system. This procurement is for a VA enterprise-wide license for electronic access to the Oxford University Press Backfile titles shown in Scope of Work below. No substitutions for alternate titles are acceptable.
VHA s goal is to insure uniform availability of high quality, medical and health sciences electronic resources across the VHA healthcare system to improve clinical decision making.
2.0 Scope of Work:
The contractor shall provide all sites on the VHA network with a web-based portal of these journal titles:
Title
Year
FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology (Pathogens and Disease)
1988-1995
FEMS microbiology immunology (Pathogens and Disease)
1988-1992
Physical Therapy
1921-1995
Sleep
1978-1995
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
1995-1995
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
1931-1995
Diseases of the Esophagus
1988-1995
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
1994-1995
Journal of Medical Entomology
1964-1995
Journal of Music Therapy
1964-1995
Laboratory Medicine
1970-1995
Medical Mycology
1962-1995
Music Therapy Perspectives
1982-1995
Pathogens and Disease
1988-1995
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
1952-1995
The Journal of Nutrition
1928-1995
The contractor shall provide all sites on the VHA network with access to a single online, web-based product. Authentication shall be through IP address validation on an enterprise basis, eliminating the need for users to enter identification, username and/or password.
The contractor shall provide an unlimited number of simultaneous users with immediate access from any web-enabled computer within VHA. It is required that all authorized remote users with VPN access also have access to the product. A username and/or password option shall be offered for remote users if needed. OpenAthens access is requested.
The contractor shall assure the requirements listed in paragraph 4, Access, Content, Support, are addressed.
3.0 Period of Performance: One-time purchase of perpetual access rights, with no maintenance fee, commencing on the effective date of award.
4.0 Access, Content, Support:
The contractor shall assure:
Product is 508 compliant (http://www.section508.gov/). If product is not 508 compliant, the contractor shall describe measures being taken to bring product into compliance and date, within 12 months of contract award, that product will be 508 compliant. Or, if product is not 508 compliant, the contractor shall describe why no work is being done to make it 508 compliant.
The product is compatible with most standard web browsers, which have cookies enabled. To insure privacy, the product uses session cookies rather than persistent cookies.
The product is compatible with the Windows environment.
All site content and support of the web site is the responsibility of the contractor. This includes technical support to VHA users nationwide.
Questions are responded to within two (2) business days.
Information is easily printed.
Information or text can be emailed among VHA colleagues.
Full-text articles are available in .pdf format.
System downtime is minimal and VA project manager is when this occurs.
Usage statistics are available to the system administrator on an enterprise level.
The product is accessible via a variety of personal digital assistant (PDA) platforms.
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