SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- Access to Online Science JournaLS
- Notice Date
- 12/19/2012
- 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
- 622810
- Archive Date
- 1/9/2013
- Point of Contact
- Marcos A. Ocadiz, Phone: 301-504-1749
- E-Mail Address
-
marcos.ocadiz@ars.usda.gov
(marcos.ocadiz@ars.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. This notice is for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. Potential sources who believe they can provide the services listed above are invited to submit substantiating documentation in writing to the identified point of contact. Information received will be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) intends to award a sole source contract to Leadership Directories, Inc. to provide electronic access via the internet for all USDA users to the database Leadership Library. Leadership Directories, Inc. (LDI) provides high-quality contact information for the leaders of major United States government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. Leadership Directories publishes fourteen Yellow Books, each a specialized directory of a particular area of American activity. As a whole, the collection is known as The Leadership Library®, a unique database of nearly a half million leaders at over 40,000 organizations. The information contained in this database is available to our subscribers in print, online, on demand, and as lists or datafeed The requirement will be used by the National Agricultural Library, USDA locations, employees worldwide, contractors, cooperators and volunteers performing work on behalf of USDA and are considered as authorized premises and users of the databases. The publisher, Leadership Directories, Inc. will make the database accessible 24 hours per day via the internet. Authorized users will grant access to the databases through the IP recognition authentication process without any impediments, with rights to use the content during the term of subscription. The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is mandated (7 U.S.C. 3101) to serve as the primary agricultural information resource of the United States. One of its functions in that role is the acquisition of information in all aspects of agriculture and allied sciences. In support of this function, the NAL acquires journal publications in electronic format from publishers and makes the journals accessible to USDA employees and library patrons via the internet. In keeping with its charge to collect agricultural and related information, it seeks to maintain a collection of publications in various formats from a variety of publishers and sources. The Leadership Library search platform is unique; the database is not available on this platform from any other publisher. This database provides high-quality contact information for the leaders of major United States government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. No other source, such as electronic resource providers, may deliver the contents of the databases without acquiring access from the Publisher. The above publisher is the only source determined capable of supplying NAL's requirements for electronic access via the internet for all USDA users to the Leadership Library. Anticipated date of ward: December 28, 2012.
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- Record
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