Attachment 1 - Statement of Work.pdf

ATTACHMENT 1 - Statement of Work

I. Background Information

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) requires electronic access via IP authentication for all USDA users and public on-site users to selected electronic publications published by Springer Nature.

II. Requirements

1. The contractor shall provide electronic access via the Internet to selected electronic publications published by Springer Nature for use by all USDA employees, contractors, authorized public on-site users, cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of USDA and acting within the scope of their relationship with USDA.

2. All USDA locations worldwide are to be considered authorized premises. USDA employees and contractors, cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of USDA and acting within the scope of their relationship with USDA, as well as employees, contractors, cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of other federal agencies that are authorized by the publisher to use NAL's DigiTop service, are considered authorized users of the journals. In addition to internal use, authorized users have the right to use content of the journals for ordinary business, scholarly and educational purposes of USDA, including but not limited to viewing, printing, saving, reusing and disseminating content

3. The contractor shall make the Springer Nature publications accessible 24 hours per day. Authorized users shall be granted access to the Springer Nature journals through IP authentication without any impediments.

4. The contractor shall provide access to the specified Springer Nature publications in accordance with the following terms and conditions:

a. The authorized users shall have the right to use content during the term of the subscription. Subscriptions begin on July 1 and run through June 30 of the following year.

b. The contractor shall grant post-cancellation access and perpetual data rights to the subscribed-to content upon subscription to the full volume year for each title. When the July 1 renewal is processed, perpetual access rights will convey for all titles for which January – June access was previously purchased.

i. If the full volume year of any given title is not purchased by USDA, that title will have no perpetual access rights.

ii. For any title not selected for renewal, USDA retains the option to purchase the remainder of the volume year (July – December ONLY) by paying the remaining balance due for the normal 12-month subscription.

Perpetual access rights will be conveyed for these titles.

iii. If a title is no longer available from Springer Nature for the next full

(July – June) year, USDA will have the option to purchase the remainder of that title’s volume year (July – December), so that perpetual access is acquired.

c. Upon request by NAL the contractor shall provide the subscribed-to or purchased content in the mutually agreed-upon electronic medium and format.

d. The right to perpetual use of the subscribed-to journal content will survive the termination of the contract for any reason.

5. The contractor shall provide access to the subscribed content and the administrative interface without imposing on the subscriber’s users any additional terms and conditions or similar restrictions that are not part of the contract. If the contractor’s system’s technical functionality prevents suppression of such terms and conditions or similar restrictions, the contractor agrees that any language, however construed and presented, is null and void and not binding on the subscriber’s users.

III. Schedule of Deliverables

Deliverable

Due Date

Task 1.

Provide access via the internet to selected Springer Nature electronic journals.

Within 5 working days of award.

Task 2.

a. Provide COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for all subscribed titles.

b. Usage statistics shall include the (IP) address of every user and their respective use of Springer Nature journals, if available.

c. Provide and maintain administrative credentials for access to institutional administrative interface for the purposes of customization, usage data retrieval and other administrative purposes, as permitted by the system.

a. Monthly

b. Annually upon request

c. Within 5 working days of award.

IV. Period of Performance

One 12-month base period with four one year options periods.

Expected start of performance: 07/01/2023.