Definitive Contract 75N97020C00008

This is a $3,453,621.70 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a civilian agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, to Cygnus Corp Inc., a woman-owned small business. The contract is for the indexing of biomedical literature to support the MEDLINE and related databases maintained by the NLM. It includes tasks such as applying Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms, linking records to the NCBI Gene database, and indexing for the Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj) database. This is a total small business set-aside contract with a base period of 12 months and four 12-month option periods. The original solicitation was a pre-solicitation notice issued in December 2019, which indicated that the contract would be awarded to multiple small business contractors on a firm-fixed-price per unit basis.