The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Rock Island awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Elsevier B.V., doing business as North-Holland (Publishing), for online access to the Elsevier ScienceDirect journals. The contract has a potential value of $165,213.23 and a completion date of December 31, 2020. This sole-source award was made under the simplified acquisition threshold, with no set-aside designation. Elsevier is a global information analytics company that provides scientific, technical, and medical content to organizations including government agencies. The company has previously received over $60 million in federal contracts from agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration to provide access to its various research databases and platforms.