Purchase Order N0017326P2404
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- The Department of the Navy's Bureau of Naval Personnel awarded a 12-month purchase order to the American Chemical Society (ACS) valued at $147,345 for access to the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform and related products including CAS Formulus and CAS Analytical Methods. The contract, awarded on July 17, 2024, is a firm fixed-price procurement with no set-aside designation and represents a sole-source award reflecting the proprietary and specialized nature of the CAS platform. Performance will...
- This federal contract award was issued by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), a defense agency, to the American Chemical Society (ACS) for a SciFinder subscription. The $149,560.00 firm fixed-price purchase order has a performance period ending December 31, 2016, and does not utilize any set-aside designations. ACS, a non-profit scientific society, is the sole provider of the proprietary SciFinder discovery platform, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases, and related chemistry publications....
- The American Chemical Society (ACS) has been awarded a sole source contract renewal by the U.S. Department of the Navy's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to provide continued access to CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform content. As the copyright holder, ACS will supply NRL cumulative access to subscribed content and quarterly reports detailing all titles, URLs, and status comments. ACS will also furnish customized usage statistics and denial of service reports upon request, as well as an updated...
- This federal contract award is for a one-year renewal of the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform, a proprietary data platform provided by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The contract is awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center, a defense agency, to ACS as the sole source provider. The contract is a firm-fixed price purchase order with a ceiling value of $73,030.00. This procurement does not have a set-aside designation. ACS frequently partners with system integrators to deliver its...
- The Office of Naval Research has awarded American Chemical Society (ACS) a $1.78M firm fixed-price purchase order for an online subscription supporting the Ruth H. Hooker Research Library at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. The contract, effective through December 31, 2030, was awarded on December 29, 2025, following a sole-source procurement conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1 due to ACS's exclusive intellectual property rights to its scientific content. The...
- This firm-fixed-price federal contract award to the American Chemical Society (ACS), a non-profit scientific society, provides a $125,755.00 subscription to the SciFinder database. The contract was awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command, a defense agency, to support the agency's research, development, and regulatory oversight missions. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting ACS's position as the sole provider of this proprietary content. The contract is an indefinite...
- The Naval Air Warfare Center awarded a $83,984.50 firm fixed-price purchase order to the American Chemical Society (ACS) on December 2, 2025, for SciFinder renewal services, with performance scheduled through April 30, 2026. This award represents a child contract under a larger indefinite delivery vehicle and carries no set-aside designation. ACS, headquartered in Washington, DC, is a non-profit scientific organization and the world's largest scientific society dedicated to chemistry-related...
- The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) awarded a $128,270.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to the American Chemical Society (ACS), a non-profit scientific society, to provide access to the SciFinder database subscription. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. ACS is the sole provider of this proprietary chemistry-related content, which includes access to the SciFinder Discovery Platform, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry, and various ACS publications....
- The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command awarded a $186,750 firm fixed-price purchase order to the American Chemical Society (ACS), a non-profit scientific society, for a SciFinder Subscription Library Platform. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. The contract supports the research, development, and regulatory oversight missions across the federal government by providing access to ACS's proprietary scientific databases, journals, and literature search tools. ACS...
- This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command to the American Chemical Society (ACS), a non-profit organization that provides electronic access to scientific journals, eBooks, and other publications. The $151,575.00 award is for the renewal of SCIFINDER web access, a platform allowing searching of chemical substance information. ACS has previously provided similar scientific literature and database access services to other federal...
The Office of Naval Research has awarded a $1.64 million Purchase Order to the American Chemical Society for a CAS Online Subscription, a renewal contract for continued access to the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform. This firm fixed-price procurement was conducted on a sole-source basis under FAR 6.302-1, as CAS holds exclusive intellectual property rights to the chemical information database and platform. The contract, effective through December 31, 2030, will provide the Naval Research Laboratory with specialized access to chemical substance data, reactions, patents, scientific literature, and advanced research tools critical to federal research and regulatory missions. Performance will be delivered to Washington, DC. This award represents a child contract under ACS's broader federal contracting portfolio with the Department of Defense and other agencies. ACS has established itself as the exclusive provider of proprietary chemical research content across multiple federal agencies, with recent notable prime contract awards exceeding $115 million cumulatively. The organization also maintains active Indefinite Delivery Vehicles with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Office of the Director, which have generated multiple task orders for CAS database access. The sole-source justification reflects the government's determination that CAS's copyrighted scientific information and platform capabilities are available only from this vendor, supporting the Naval Research Laboratory's critical infrastructure needs for chemical research and development activities.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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American Chemical Society (CAS) Online Library Platform Subscription | N0017325QKN03 | Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research | Special Notice 1/1 | 7/23/25, 12:27 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $280.2k | 12/29/25 |