IEEE_AFIT_Intent_to_award_synopsis.pdf

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE

The United States Air Force (the Government) intends to issue a Firm-Fixed-Price Purchase order to a single source, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) (only one source reasonably available) on or about 15 December 2015. The period of performance (PoP) shall be from 01 January 2016 – 31 December 2016. Two one-year options are anticipated that would extend the PoP through 31 December 2018.

FSC: 7630

NAICS: 519130

Size Standard: 500 employees

Subscription name: IEEE Digital Library

Supplier name: IEEE

Product description: Featuring content from IEEE as well as the IET, IEL contains almost one-third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science. unlimited, full-text access to more than three million documents;

documents delivered in PDF and HTML (as available) formats; highly-cited, peer-reviewed research that fuels more new patents than any other publisher, including:

174 IEEE journals, magazines, and transactions, 26 IET journals and magazines, plus 20+ IET conference titles, proceedings from over 1,400 IEEE and IET annual conferences and more than 2,800 approved and published IEEE standards in key technology fields.

Product characteristics an equal item must meet to be considered:

• Full-text online access to the journals, online conference papers, and industry standards in electrical engineering and computer science.

• All content vetted by the major U.S. professional society in electrical engineering, or one of their partner or subsidiary societies or workgroups.

• IP authentication (institutional multi-user, single campus subscription)

• Search function with faceting, indexes, and export capability.

• Individual account creation for saved searches and alerts

• Current year of each journal, and back volumes to volume 1 of the respective title, all downloadable in PDF.

• All graphical figures and citations of the original full-text article must be available within the digital document (object) that stands for that article.

• Librarian-accessible COUNTER-compliant usage data for searches and downloads

This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the Government. The Government will consider responses received within 20 days of issuance of this notice. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a full and open competitive procurement or a small business set aside competitive procurement. The Government will not pay for any information received in response to this announcement.

If the Government decides to compete this requirement, a synopsis shall be issued utilizing the combined synopsis/solicitation procedure identified in FAR 12.603. If this effort becomes a Small Business Set-Aside, FAR 52.219-14, Limitation on Subcontracting, will apply. Therefore, small businesses that want to be considered for a small business set-aside should demonstrate how they intend to comply.

A determination not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Contractors should be aware of the following information:

1. Contractors must include the following information:

a. Points of contact, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers.

b. Identification as a large U.S. business, a small U.S. business, or a foreign business. Please note that size indicated should be based on the NAICS code for this effort listed above.

c. Identification of any other socioeconomic status including: Women-Owned

Small Business, Economically Disadvantaged Small Business, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Veteran Owned Small Business or HUBZone.

d. Company CAGE Code or DUNS Number.

2. In your response, you must address how your product meets the product characteristics specified above.

3. Submitted information shall be UNCLASSIFIED.

4. Responses are limited to 10 pages in a Microsoft Word compatible format.

Responses should be emailed to Victoria A. Russell at victoria.russell.1@us.af.mil and Jason Correll at jason.correll.2@us.af.mil no later than 4 November 2015, 2:00 PM EST. Any questions should be directed to Victoria A. Russell through email.