Attachment 10b - H002272.pdf

This federal contract opportunity solicitation seeks indexing and scanning services, patent data capture and composition services, and document management services to support the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The selected contractor will be responsible for indexing and scanning all paper documents filed with the USPTO, capturing and structuring patent application data from various sources for pre-grant publication and post-allowance issuance of patent grants, and managing documents within the official electronic file wrapper throughout the patent examination and post-issuance process. The contractor must perform front-end processing, pre-grant publication, post-allowance processing, post-issuance processing, and quality control reviews. Key deliverables include weekly publication of pending patent applications, issuance of allowed patent grants, and composition of certificates and notices on a daily or weekly basis. The production schedules and quality standards for these deliverables are defined in the attachments to the forthcoming request for proposals.