SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- Electronic Delivery of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts and Water Resources Abstracts Database
- Notice Date
- 7/18/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511120
— Periodical Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Acquisition and Property Division, Acquisition Branch (MD), 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Building 3, Mailstop: 5116, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20705
- Solicitation Number
- NAL595258S2012
- Point of Contact
- Alvenia K Pitts, Phone: 301-504-1742
- E-Mail Address
-
alvenia.pitts@ars.usda.gov
(alvenia.pitts@ars.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Department Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Research Service (ARS ), National Agricultural Library (NAL) intends to negotiate and award on a sole source basis, a one (1) year Firm Fixed Price contract for electronic journal access via the internet. Award is pursuant to 41.U.S.C.253(c)(1)-Only One responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The contractor is required to provide the following ProQuest LLC titles: 1) ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Database, 2) WATERRA: Water Resources Abstracts. Access shall be for all USDA employees, contractors, authorized public on-site users, cooperators, and volunteers working on behalf of USDA. All USDA locations worldwide are considered authorized users. In addition to internal use, authorized users shall have the right to use journal content for ordinary business, scholarly and educational purposes of the Government, including but not limited to viewing, printing, saving, reusing and disseminating content in accordance with applicable copyright and fair use legislation, and including citations derived from Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts database and the Water Resources Abstracts database records in subject bibliographies produced by NAL. Electronic access shall consist of records in the base period and all records including updates and corrections produced during the contract period. The contractor shall also provide USDA with content training opportunities including WebEx and live user seminars, and content-related training material when requested. Upon request, the contractor shall provide to NAL in a non-proprietary XML format the database content and all new records produced during the contract period. The contractor shall grant Perpetual Data Rights to the above titles. Electronic access shall be provided with a period of performance of September 30, 2012 through September 29, 2013. This procurement will be processed pursuant to FAR part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items. No solicitation will be issued. Responses are to be received within 5 days of this notice. No telephone calls are being accepted. Questions can be emailed Alvenia.pitts@ars.usda.gov. NAICS Code/Size is 511120. Point of Contact(s): Alvenia (Kris) Pitts, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-504-1742, Fax 301-504-0022, Email Alvenia.pitts@ars.usda.gov - Contracting Office Address: Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Acquisition and Property Division, Acquisition Branch (MD), 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Building 3, Mailstop: 5152, Beltsville, MD, 20705. Place of Contract Performance: National Agricultural Library, 10301 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/ARS/CB/NAL595258S2012/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Agricultural Library, 10301 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, United States
- Zip Code: 20705
- Zip Code: 20705
- Record
- SN02807014-W 20120720/120718235315-478202d30c414a44ad8086cc661d016e (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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