This federal contract was awarded by the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Springer Nature Customer Service Center LLC, a division of the academic publishing company Springer Nature. The $88,010.00 firm fixed price purchase order is for Springer Nature's ebook packages, with a completion date of September 30, 2017. This contract is not set aside for any specific business type.
Springer Nature Customer Service Center LLC has been awarded over $25 million in federal contracts to provide online journal subscriptions, ebook collections, database access, and publication services for research manuscripts and articles to agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company also holds several indefinite delivery contracts with potential values over $100 million to supply electronic resources through vehicles like the National Institutes of Health and the Library of Congress FEDLINK program for federal libraries.