Ebsco-PWS-Upgrade subscriptions-UFR.docx

Purchase Work Statement United States Army Corps of Engineers Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity Alexandria, VA 22315

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1.0 General

1.0 Project Title: Upgrade Ebsco subscriptions. and

1.1 Description of services:

The vendor (EBSCO Publishing) will upgrade current subscription to Business Source Complete to provide online access to its database service Business Source Ultimate at the quoted discount price plus an additional year at quoted price. Additionally, Ebsco will provide one year access to the following online collections and platforms: Art & Architecture Source, Engineering Source, Energy & Power Source, Leadership & Management Source, Harvard eBooks, Business eBooks, and Accel5/AMA Microcourses. Authorized USACE personnel will access this content over the open Web.

1.2 Background:

HQ/HECSA Library intends to purchase access to Business Source Ultimate database content services, Ebsco Art & Architecture Source, Ebsco Engineering Source, Ebsco Energy & Power Source, Ebsco Leadership Management Source, Ebsco Harvard eBooks collection, Ebsco Business eBooks Collection, and Accel5/AMA Microcourses.. USACE personnel will search the databases for full-text documents, indices and abstracts, news, current events, policy and analysis documents, books, conference proceedings, reports and white papers within various subfields of the environmental and business disciplines. They will set up personalized subject matter profiles and will receive alerts when new content matching those profiles is published. This digital content will support USACE personnel as they accomplish their missions.

1.3 Scope of Work:

Contractor shall allow any user coming from a HQ/HECSA Library authorized IP address or user name and password to access their system. Users can enter a search query in the vendor’s Web search form and will receive a list of results. The user can select one of the results and display it on screen, print or download it. The digital documents in the vendor’s database cover international, U S national and journals, monographs, magazines, trade periodicals, white papers, analysis, reports and studies. Users will establish personalized alerts/profiles and will receive notices of new content matching those profiles via email. Links in those emails will send users to relevant content within the databases. HQ/HECSA Library staff will provide the vendor with the list of authorized IP addresses and names and passwords. USACE personnel extracting documents from this service will strictly observe copyright protections. All interaction between vendor and USACE personnel is accomplished via Web, telephone, email or other virtual communication methods. There is no need for vendor personnel to visit a USACE office unless it is to perform occasional user training or customer assistance visits.

2 Other Requirements

2.1 All database content will be delivered by EBSCO Publishing, the vendor company.

2.2 The vendor will also provide access to usage data, preferably via an admin dashboard, but data for each month shall be collected and made available at minimum annually. Data must include at minimum the number of unique searches (For those using COUNTER: “Searches_Regular”) and the number of items viewed (For hose using COUNTER: 'Unique_Item_Investigations') by our customers per Government fiscal year (FY), which runs October 1 through September 30. Usage data if not on a dashboard shall be sent to hecsa.library@usace.army.mil upon request by the library or by 15 October of each year, for as long as this contract remains in place.

2.3 The contractor shall report ALL contractor labor hours (including subcontractor labor hours) required for performance of services provided under this contract for the HECSA Library via a secure data collection site. The contractor is required to completely fill in all required data fields using the following web address: https://sam.gov/. Reporting inputs will be for the labor executed during the period of performance during each Government fiscal year (FY), which runs October 1 through September 30. While inputs may be reported any time during the FY, all data shall be reported no later than October 31 of each calendar year, beginning with 2013. Contractors may direct questions to the help desk at help desk at: https://sam.gov/.”

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