SLED Opportunity · COLORADO · COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
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The Colorado Department of Corrections seeks a sole source procurement for UpToDate Inc.'s medical guidance database subscription to support clinical decision-making in correctional healthcare. The subscription is essential for timely, evidence-based patient care and integrates with existing systems.
The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) states and attests herein its belief that the medical guidance database subscription from UpToDate Inc, a database product from Wolters Kluwer Health, is the sole source provider from which to purchase the licenses/subscriptions to access the web-based database for Clinical professionals. The subscription offered by UpToDate Inc is specifically suited and designed to support healthcare providers with evidence based clinical decision support, medical journal reference material, standardized care guidance, and complies with the State of Colorado Medical Board requirements for patient care. As a critical operational tool, the UpToDate on-line database subscription provides the most advanced, comprehensive range of medical specialties, research documentation, disease-state variants and adheres to the highest of standards for healthcare providers to obtain medical guidance for improved patient care. The UpToDate Inc subscription serves as the leading medical resource database and is the industry standard used by major health systems including University of Colorado, which work in conjunction with DOC for patient care. The access licenses from this subscription provides DOC healthcare staff and contracted medical teams with an indispensable implement for treating complex medical, mental, and comorbid conditions. The consistent and concise recommendations with expert advice going beyond study materials, giving healthcare providers with immediate consensus options and guides that adhere to generally acceptable standards of medical practitioners and legally defensible care instructions. Replacing this subscription would create significant disruption to the decision-making process which requires timeliness in a correctional environment. Furthermore, other subscriptions such as this may not be capable of integration with CDOC’s patient record system and do not reasonably meet the department’s needs. Alternative products would also create an undue expense and burden to the clinical staff and the department which will severely impede the delivery and efficiency of care to the population they serve. The Office of Information Technology (OIT), are also impacted when unknown subscriptions are introduced, as each require a strict thorough vetting process before access to state network computers is granted and often more advanced databases are not compatible with DOCs less modern medical records system/platform. This Notice of Proposed Sole Source is published to afford prospective competitors or other interested parties the opportunity to submit comments and/or an objection to the determination that the UpToDate Inc Subscription produced by Wolters Kluwer Health is the sole source from which to procure these licensing services. Any such comments or objections pertaining to the proposed sole source procurement must be submitted via bidnetdirect.com//cdoc. This Notice has been published for three business days in accordance with C.R.S. 21-106-103(5). **Solicitation Type**: SSN - Sole Source Notice (Formal) **Source ID**: PU.AG.USA.2502398.C14934951 **Piggyback Contract**: No **Question Acceptance Deadline**: 04/16/2026 03:00 PM EDT **Questions are submitted online**: Yes **Bid Submission Type**: Electronic Bid Submission **Additional Bidding Instructions**: This is a Notice of Proposed Sole Source, all inquires or questions are submitted as a question through BidNet Direct at: bidnetdirect.com//cdoc. If you have questions when responding please contact bidnetdirect vendor support at 800-835-4603 option 2. **Solicitation Number**: NPSS 2026000166 **Reference Number**: 0000419487 **Pricing**: Lump sum
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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