Wiley Journals

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with the commercial procedures of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested, and a written solicitation document will not be issued.

This solicitation is issued as an RFQ, 36C77626Q0090.  The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01.

This acquisition is a total set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs). This solicitation incorporates provisions and clauses by reference. The full text of provisions and clauses may be accessed electronically at www.acquisition.gov.

The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 519290, with a small business size standard of 1,000 employees.

The FSC/PSC is R605.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Regional Procurement Office-Central, 1639 Medical Center Parkway, Suite 204, Murfreesboro, TN 371291 is seeking an existing, commercial, off-the-shelf, web-based electronic collection of Wiley Journals as outlined in Attachment D.1.

INSTRUCTIONS TO QUOTERS

(A)       Volume I – Technical - Quotes shall clearly and completely address the appropriate technical areas of consideration described below in a format that follows the Statement of Work (SOW) deliverables. Responses to these items will form the basis for the technical merits of each quote.

(B)       Volume II – Price - The Offeror shall submit a firm-fixed price quote for all items described within the SOW. The Government will evaluate the price by adding the total of all line-item prices, including all options and an estimated cost to exercise FAR 52.217-8. The Total Evaluated Price will be that sum.

(C)       Documentation that reflects your entity is an authorized reseller/distributor of these journals from the publisher or intellectual property holder.

FACTORS TO BE EVALUATED

1.  Technical

2.  Price

The award will be made to the response most advantageous to the Government.

Responses should contain your best terms, conditions.

All Offerors are advised that, in the interest of efficiency, the Government reserves the right to conduct the evaluation in the most effective manner.  Specifically, the Government may first evaluate the total proposed price of all Offerors.  Thereafter, the Government will evaluate the technical quote of the lowest priced Offeror only.  If the lowest priced Offeror’s technical quote is determined to be rated as Acceptable, the Government may make award to that Offeror without further evaluation of the remaining Offerors’ technical quotes.  If the lowest priced Offeror’s technical proposal is determined to be rated as Unacceptable, then the Government may evaluate the next lowest priced technical quote, and so forth and so on, until the Government reaches the lowest priced technical quote that is determined to be rated as acceptable.  However, the Government reserves the right to evaluate all Offerors’ technical quotes should it desire to conduct discussions, or otherwise determine it to be in the Government’s best interest.

Please be advised that any Offeror-imposed terms and conditions which deviate from the Government’s material terms and conditions established by this solicitation may render the Offeror’s proposal Unacceptable and thus, ineligible for award.

1.         TECHNICAL EVALUATION APPROACH

The technical evaluation process will consider the following: 

(1)       The evaluation process will consider whether the quote demonstrates a clear understanding of the technical features involved in meeting the solicitation requirements and whether the Offeror’s methods and approach have adequately and completely considered, defined, and satisfied the requirements in the Solicitation.

2. PRICE EVALUATION APPROACH

Firm Fixed Price: The Government will evaluate offers by adding the total of all line-item prices, including all options.

In addition, FAR 52.217-8, Option to Extend Services applies to this solicitation.  As such, evaluation of options under FAR 52.217-8 will also include using the prices offered for the last option period to determine the price for an additional 6-month option period in the event an extension is issued under FAR 52.217-8.  The Offeror’s proposed total base year price, total option period prices, and the additional 6-month option period price will then be added together to arrive at the Offeror’s Total Evaluated Price.  The Total Evaluated Price will be that sum.

Award will be based upon a comparative evaluation of quotes in accordance with RFO Part 12.  Comparative evaluation is the side by side pairwise comparison of quotes based on factors resulting in a Contracting Officer decision for the quote most favorable to the Government.  

The award will be made to the response most advantageous to the Government.

Responses should contain your best terms, conditions.

To facilitate the award process, all quotes must include a statement regarding the terms and conditions herein as follows:

"The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document without modification, deletion, or addition."

OR

"The terms and conditions in the solicitation are acceptable to be included in the award document with the exception, deletion, or addition of the following:"

 Quoters shall list exception(s) and rationale for the exception(s), if any.

System updates may lag policy updates. The System for Award Management (SAM) may continue to require entities to complete representations based on provisions that are not included in agency solicitations. Contracting officers will not consider these representations when making award decisions or enforce requirements. Entities are not required to, nor are they able to, update their entity registration to remove these representations in SAM.

Questions regarding this solicitation shall be received not later than 9 AM EST, September 15, 2026, via email to Erich Hoffman, Erich.Hoffman@va.gov  

The deadline for submissions regarding this RFQ is 1:00PM EST, September 18, 2026, via email at erich.hoffman@va.gov . Quotations received after this date and time will not be reviewed.  Phone calls will not be accepted.

Late submissions shall be treated in accordance with the solicitation provision at RFO 52.212-1(f). 

Any questions or concerns regarding this solicitation should be forwarded in writing via e-mail to the Point of Contact listed below.

Point of Contact

Erich Hoffman, Contract Specialist

Erich.Hoffman@va.gov