SOURCES SOUGHT
T -- NIEHS Environmental Health Information Services
- Notice Date
- 3/2/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511120
— Periodical Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 07-075-SB
- Response Due
- 3/12/2007
- Archive Date
- 3/27/2007
- Description
- The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine is conducting market research on behalf of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Services to determine the capabilities of potential sources to include, but not limited to, preparing, printing and distributing of hardcopy documents. The requirement will cover the production of separate-covered, perfect bound publications requiring such operations as maintaining and building a large subscriber base. In addition this requirement involves desktop publishing services, including but not limited to, handling aspects of producing the Environmental Health Perspective (EHP), a monthly scientific journal, which consists of 12 monthly issues containing scientific articles and other text. The Offeror must have: 1. Capability of making material available on the Internet and providing manuscripts for online publication utilizing Digital Object Identifier (DOI), Pubmed, and JSTOR; 2. Capability to develop and maintain a revenue-generating subscription service including the collection and reporting of fees; 3. Experience with hosting a website; 4. Experience with hosting an electronic editorial review process; 5. In-house editorial review expertise; 6. Ready access to scientific expertise covering a wide range of topics published in EHP, )e.g. Exposure assessment, Genetic regulation/gene expression, Risk Assessment, Toxicology, Cardiovascular Disease, Fetal/child development, Neurobehavioral Disease, Respiratory Disease, Environmental medicine etc.; 7. Ability to host the EHP Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Boards; 8. Experience with business management of a scientific journal; and 9. Must demonstrate that they have adequate resources and experience to support review, desktop publishing, copy editing, proofreading, production, printing, and distribution including website and online publication of the EHP. Capability Statements should include, but are not limited to, the following information: 1. A description of relevant current and prior work, expertise, facilities, organizational structure, and qualifications of key individuals (documenting expertise and field experience in the areas of interest); 2. Identification of any current negotiated GSA schedule, Government contract, or commercial pricing rates; and 3. A statement identifying business size. Interested parties responding to this notice must ensure that their response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine their qualifications to perform. The Government will evaluate all responses to this notice. This is not a request for proposal. This is a Sources Sought announcement and in no way commits the Government to award a contract. The Government will not execute any award(s) based solely on responses to this notice. The Government will not assume any responsibility for any cost incurred in response to this notice. Capability statements shall be submitted electronically to boakyes@mail.nih.gov and must be received no later than 4PM EST on March 12, 2007. All inquiries regarding this announcement should be directed to Sally Boakye, Contract Specialist via email at boakyes@mail.nih.gov or telephone 301-435-4383.
- Record
- SN01242542-W 20070304/070302220425 (fbodaily.com)
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