Attachment_II_-_QARS.docx
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- Journal Copy-editing & Page Composition Environmental Health Perspectives Federal contract opportunity
- Solicitation number
- NIHES2016092
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This solicitation requests proposals for journal copyediting and composition services for Environmental Health Perspectives. The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences is seeking these services to support copyediting, layout, and online publishing portal functionality for the journal. Interested offerors must provide resources to ensure at least 99.5% accuracy and on-time delivery for copyediting, composition, and customer service tasks based on detailed technical and timeline requirements. The period of performance is a five-year ordering period from March 2017 through February 2022 with a 60-day phase-in transition. Proposals are due by October 12, 2016 with award anticipated to a single contractor. The estimated total value of the requirements contract is $1,870,153.80 to be issued through firm-fixed-price task orders.
Attachment II - QARS
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| Attachment_I_-_PWS.doc | DOC document | |
| Attachment_V_-_Sample_Task_Order.pdf | ||
| RFQ _NIHES2016092 _Journal_Copy-editing_ _Page_Composition__Environmental_Health_Perspectives.pdf | ||
| Attachment_IV_-_Workload_Data.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Attachment_III_-_Deliverables.docx | DOCX document |
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ATTACHMENT II, QARS JOURNAL COPYEDITING AND COMPOSITION
ATTACHMENT II - QUALITY ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY
JOURNAL COPYEDITING AND COMPOSITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC
This draft Quality Assurance Requirements Summary (QARS) is provided so that the Contractor can be familiar with the level of service expected.
| Required Service |
| Deliverable |
| Performance Standard |
| Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) |
| Monitoring Method |
| The Contractor shall provide copyediting based on EHP’s style guide provided; PWS, section 3, Task 1 |
| Copyediting of accepted manuscripts and News articles, and their associated components (figure, tables, supplemental material). |
| Copyediting and Composition based on AMA Manual of Style and EHP’s style guide (to be provided). |
| 99%+ accuracy of copyediting and composition with regard to style; fewer than 3 typos or grammatical errors per article. |
| 100% surveillance, author and/or reader complaints |
| Technical accuracy of the XML, MathML and PDF |
| All XML, MathML, and PDF files must be provided for each manuscript as appropriate, and must conform to the technical guidelines issued by EHP and the publishing platform. |
| 99%+ accuracy of all such files |
| EHP review of files; authors notification of errors; article conversion or metadata deposit errors. |
| 508 compliance – figures, tables, and equations |
| All figures, tables, and equations as well as other graphical files pertaining to the manuscript shall meet 508 compliance. |
| 99%+ accuracy of all such files |
| EHP review of files; authors notification of errors; scan reports |
| The Contractor shall provide excellent customer service to the Government, authors and the public, PWS, section 3, task 4 |
| Excellent customer service |
| Accurate information provided to customers in exemplary fashion. |
| 100% accuracy of all information to customers. Excellent demeanor with all customers. |
| EHP random reviews, author’s feedback to Government, and public voluntary comments provided to government. |
| Compose and layout all assigned articles, meeting the guidelines specified in the Composition section PWS, section 3, task 2 |
| Composition and layout of assigned articles and their components (figures, tables, supplemental materials). |
| Adheres to EHP style requirements prescribed in the house style manual, and given via technical feedback. |
| 100% of accuracy in meeting all page layout requirements. |
| EHP review of all compositions and layouts; author complaints. |
| Meet all timelines for delivering content to EHP, authors, the publishing platform, readers, and all internal deadlines, as specified in the Timelines section; PWS, section 3 |
| Content delivered to EHP, authors, publishing platform, and readers within specified timelines. |
| Meet all deadlines. |
| 99.5% of all deadlines are met |
| EHP review of files, tracking system, publication postings, and internal deadlines. |
| Provide an online publisher portal for EHP staff to monitor and review the progress of work, and to serve proofs to authors (if not using ProduXion Manager); PWS, section 3, task 3 |
| Online publisher portal providing secure access for EHP staff to review and access all in-progress papers, and for authors to securely access their proofs, and return proof corrections |
| Tracking system must accurately reflect the status of each manuscript and provide relevant data, and authors must only see their own works |
| 99.9% uptime, best-practice web security standards |
| EHP reviews; author complaints |
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