SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- IOP-Published Journal Subscription
- Notice Date
- 12/3/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 519120
— Libraries and Archives
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-16-RQ-0058
- Point of Contact
- Mario Gray, Phone: 3019756107, Grace H. Garrity, Phone: 3019752345
- E-Mail Address
-
mario.gray@nist.gov, grace.garrity@nist.gov
(mario.gray@nist.gov, grace.garrity@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Notice of Intent to Sole Source The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to award on a sole source basis under authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.5-Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items (FAR 13.501) to the contractor, IOP Publishing Incorporated (IOP Publishing), as the only capable source that can provide online subscription and support services for unlimited electronic access to the Institute of Physics journals and upgrades to the IOP Publishing's IOPcorporate. The IOP-Published Journal Subscription will: 1. Provide full text access to 84 required peer-reviewed, IOP-published e-Journals, including Turpion titles; 2. Include coverage in over 600,000 articles in the following subject areas: applied physics; astronomy and astrophysics; atomic, molecular and optical physics; chemistry; computational science; condensed matter; engineering; environment; high energy and nuclear physics; materials science; mathematics; measurement; medical and biological sciences, and plasma physics; 3. Provide a search interface which enables quick and easy access to full text IOP-published e-Journals; 4. Provide 24/7 electronic access to IOPcorporate database from NIST Researchers' desktops or anywhere within the NIST domain; 5. Externally host the database with IP authentication. IOP electronic journals are only available directly from IOP Publishing Incorporated. Subscription agents have the authority to contract for sales of print subscriptions only. No other vendor or product on the market is able to supply IOP-published electronic journals. Only one responsible source owns copyrights to the licensed materials accessible through IOPcorporate database and is the owner and only provider of the proprietary database of journal titles in the collection. This content is not available online through any other interface or vendor. IOP Publishing disseminates the materials contained within the repository and is the only vendor with the legal rights to publish and distribute those materials worldwide. It is anticipated that the award will include a one-year Base period and four one-year option periods. This requirement is being conducted under FAR Subpart 13.5-Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items (FAR 13.501). The intended procurement will be classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 519120 Libraries and Archives, Business Size Standard: $15 Million. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document will exist for this requirement. However, parties interested in responding to this notice shall submit technical data, including price and sufficient documentation to determine capability/qualifications in providing the same or similar subscription and support services. All statements received by the closing date of this notice will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to meet or exceed the Government's requirements in writing via e-mail to Mario Gray using e-mail address: mario.gray@nist.gov and grace.garrity@nist.gov with the solicitation number referenced in the subject line. Interested organizations shall submit their responses by/no later than Monday, December 14, 2015 12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.
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