Notice of Intent: Department of Veterans Affairs, NCO 9 intends to award a sole source procurement under FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source to EBSCO (NAICS code 511120), 10 Estes St. Ipswich MA 01938-2106 for the following service: renewal of Online Electronic database Subscriptions. EBSCO Publishing, the world's premier database aggregator, is a leader in providing Point-of-Care Resources to hospitals and medical institutions worldwide. These resources provide doctors, clinicians, nurses and other health care professionals with the best available evidence-based clinical reference tools for their information needs. Integrated health care content solutions from EBSCO Publishing include DynaMed (4244139), Nursing Reference Center(5244140), Mental Measurements(5362508). In addition to its substantial collection of point-of-care resources, EBSCO Publishing offers a suite of more than 350 full-text and secondary research databases and more than 300,000 eBooks. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.), students and researchers. The company's product lines include proprietary databases, DynaMed, Nursing Reference Center, Mental Measurement yearbooks, as no other source FAR 6.302-1 only one responsible source can provide this bundle. The Databases are powered by EBSCO host, the company's proprietary platform and hosting service, which is searched more than sixty million times each day. This notice is informational only and is neither a request for quote nor a solicitation of proposals. Responses received may be evaluated; however, a determination by the government not to compete the proposed procurement is solely with in the discretion of the Government. Any response to this notice must be detailed information and must show clear and convincing evidence that a competition would be advantageous to the Government. In doing so, interested sources must submit in sufficient detail to demonstrate ability to provide the above requirements at no cost or obligation to the Government. Information can be submitted to [email protected]

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