Attachment 2 Sole Source Justification.pdf

Sole Source Justification

PR# 1300887065

DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT:

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) is a Naval research activity operating under the direction of the Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command

(NAVSEA). The installation provides research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, analysis, and assessment, as well as Fleet support capabilities for naval warfare. Through its

Warfare Center Research Commons, NUWCDIVNPT provides library and information services to Navy scientists and engineers. The Research Commons provides centralized access to subscription content which includes online access to leading scientific journals published by

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Warfare Center Research Commons’ researchers need ready access to scientific research to support mission requirements, including the design, development, testing, and evaluation of national defense technologies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishes certain leading academic journals that contain the latest, best-available science in these key areas. Research Commons’ researchers continually consult and reference these journals to support and advance their work, and subsequently require online access to this scientific content. At a minimum, they require access to the following journals:

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Astronomische Nachrichten

ChemSystemsChem

Geophysical Research Letters

Journal of Chemometrics

Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth

Marine Mammal Science

Navigation

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Radio Science

Statistics in Medicine

The Journal of Wildlife Management

Wildlife Monographs

Period of Performance: One (1) year ARO, with the possibility of four (4) option periods.

FOB Destination.

SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION:

Like most academic publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. holds exclusive copyrights to the research content in the journals that it publishes, and they subsequently are the only source that can license full access to this research. Without access to this content, Navy researchers would be slow to learn about – or even ignorant of – the latest scientific and technical developments in key areas. We researched two leading academic database providers, ProQuest and EBSCO, which aggregate and provide access to content from numerous publishers, to determine whether they might also provide access this content. While they do include some Wiley journals in their databases through their own licenses with John Wiley & Sons, they do not include all of the required journals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is the only source available to provide online access to the necessary journals.

RESELLERS:

No authorized resellers have been identified for John Wiley & Sons, Inc.