Purchase Order FA805225P0013
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- The Department of Defense Education Activity awarded a $2.74M Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Ebsco Information Services, LLC on September 30, 2025, for a Readers Advisory subscription service supporting DoD Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Libraries across all military branches. The contract, which runs through September 29, 2029, includes a 12-month base period with three additional 12-month option periods. Ebsco will provide a digital subscription to a Readers Advisory and Novelist+...
- The Department of the Army Headquarters West Point Military Academy awarded a $21,484 firm fixed price purchase order to Newsbank Inc., doing business as Readex, for its 2023 yearly access fee to various digital historical newspaper and government document subscription databases. The contract has a period of performance from August 15, 2023 through August 31, 2024. The solicitation notice indicated the Army's intent to sole source the requirement due to Readex being the sole provider of the...
- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) to Newsbank Inc., doing business as Readex, with a ceiling value of $94,424.96 and a performance period ending on September 30, 2022. The contract is for foreign broadcast information services and does not have a set-aside designation. Readex is a for-profit, veteran-owned, Subchapter S corporation that has received prior federal contract awards from various government agencies to provide digital...
- Newsbank Inc., operating as Readex, was awarded a $117.5K firm fixed-price purchase order by the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) on July 10, 2024, to provide digital licensing access to specialized research databases through its base year contract, with a mandatory migration modification. The award encompasses access to Early American Newspapers, Evans Digital, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, Joint Publications Research Service Reports, and the U.S. Congressional Serial...
- The Department of Justice, Justice Management Division, awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Newsbank Inc., doing business as Readex, for $49,070.00. The contract is for providing access to three NewsBank digital services: Access World News, Heritage Hub, and Armed Services and Government News. These services provide current and historical news content, obituaries and funeral notices, and military publications. The contract is a sole-source award under 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) as the...
- This contract is for the annual subscription renewal of digital archives and online databases provided by Newsbank Inc., doing business as Readex, to the Naval Education and Training Command, a Defense agency. The contract has a firm fixed price of $6,895.85 and was awarded on February 9, 2011, with a completion date of February 28, 2012. Readex is a veteran-owned for-profit organization that has served research libraries for over 45 years and holds an Indefinite Delivery Contract with the...
- This firm fixed-price purchase order contract was awarded by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) to Ebsco Industries Inc. through the Ebsco Division. The contract has a ceiling value of $577,275.00 and a period of performance ending on September 29, 2025. The contract is described as "DODL READERS ADVISORY" and does not have a set-aside designation. Ebsco Industries Inc. is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books, and...
- The Bureau of Naval Personnel awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to New York Times Co for an online subscription service valued at $19,000.80, with an ultimate completion date of January 1, 2025. The contract, awarded on February 23, 2024, originated from a sole source pre-solicitation notice posted by the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command seeking digital subscription services for a 41-week base period with three additional option years. The requirement calls for a basic...
- This firm-fixed-price purchase order contract was awarded by the U.S. Army to Newsbank Inc., doing business as Readex, to provide access to the Early American Newspapers, Series VII digital archive. The $121,452.00 contract has an ultimate completion date of October 30, 2015. Readex has received previous contract awards from various U.S. government agencies to provide access to digital archives and online databases. The contract is not associated with a larger contract vehicle, and no...
- The Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to ProQuest, LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit organization, to provide subscription-based access to various databases and collections, including historical newspapers, ProQuest databases, legislative and regulatory insights, and other research tools. The contract, valued at $1,692,151.00, has a period of performance from September 30, 2018, to September 29, 2019, and was not set aside...
The Department of Defense Education Activity awarded a $1.416M firm fixed-price purchase order to Newsbank Inc. (doing business as Readex) on September 30, 2025, for a military news and information subscription service. The contract, which runs through September 29, 2028, will provide Department of Defense Libraries with web-based access to current and archived military, government, and defense news from over 40 key sources including Air Force Times, Army Times, Navy Times, and Marine Corps Times. The service will serve active duty, reserve, and retired military personnel and their dependents worldwide, delivering content spanning military, government, and defense news, issues, strategies, careers, benefits, and training. The contract includes industry-standard security requirements such as Transport Layer Security 1.3 and HTTP Strict Transport Security, along with the capability to generate usage statistics by military branch. The award resulted from an Air Force market research and sources sought notice posted in July 2025, which sought suppliers capable of meeting 15 detailed product characteristics and technical specifications for comprehensive military news access. Newsbank, a veteran-owned, Naples, Florida-based company specializing in digital news archives and research databases, was selected through firm fixed-price procurement with no small business set-aside designation. The performance location is San Antonio, Texas. This contract aligns with the Air Force's original three-year procurement structure, which included a base year with two one-year option periods extending through August 31, 2028.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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DoDL Military News, Journals, Strategies, and More Subscription | FA805225PRE08 | Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Installation Contracting Agency | Pre-Solicitation 1/2 | 7/16/25, 10:53 AM | |
DoDL Military News, Journals, Strategies, and More Subscription | FA805225Q0011 | Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Installation Contracting Agency | Solicitation 2/2 | 9/16/25, 2:46 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00001 | Funding Only Action | $0 | 12/15/25 |