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This document contains a Performance Requirements Summary (PRS) that details the requirements for a contract to edit, produce, and publish 11 issues per year of the CTC Sentinel, an academic journal focused on terrorism and counterterrorism studies. The PRS specifies that each monthly issue must have 3-5 articles and 1 interview feature, written by leading scholars and practitioners in the field. The contractor must meet strict formatting, style, and editorial standards.

The related federal contract opportunity is a sources sought notice for an 8(a) small business set-aside to provide editing support services for the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The contract is anticipated to have a NAICS code of 541990 for other professional, scientific, and technical services. The notice requests information from interested 8(a) firms regarding their capabilities, experience, pricing, and recommendations to facilitate competition. Responses are due by May 20, 2024.

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Attachment 1 List of Contractor Requirements

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List of Contractor Requirements

3.1 The contractor will edit, produce, and publish eleven (11) issues of the CTC Sentinel in a calendar year. The months in which the CTC Sentinel will be published are: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, and November.

3.1.1

Each issue will have between 3-5 articles and one (1) interview feature. The authors of these articles and interviewee will be leading scholars, practitioners, or other specialists in their respective fields per academic standards in the CT field. The contractor will write an editors’ letter to be published at the front of each of the eleven (11) issues. The contractor will develop article ideas and solicit articles from leading scholars, practitioners, or other specialists in fields associated with terrorism and counter terrorism studies. Each article will be focused on terrorism and counterterrorism gap areas or issues and questions of strategic import. The contractor will communicate with authors and manage editorial interactions with contributors.

The contractor will manage issues related to accuracy or editorial standards if and when they arise. The contractor will hold to academic journal standards in the counterterrorism (CT) field.

Each edition of the CTC Sentinel will be emailed to the government representative for upload on the ctc.usma.edu website.

Performance Requirements Summary (PRS)

Performance Objective (from PWS Section 5)

Performance Standard Acceptable Quality Level

Method of Surveillance

Incentive / Disincentive

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(11) issues of the CTC Sentinel in a articles and 1 Center Faculty timely updating Sentinel in a calendar year. calendar year.

Publication of the Sentinel in each month will occur by the last workday in that month (Friday).

interview feature.

Each Sentinel edition must comport with previous editions of the Sentinel in terms of formatting and style.

and/or Staff could result in

The authors and will provide reductions in interviewee will necessary monthly be leading surveillance. payments at the scholars, discretion of the practitioners, or Contracting other specialists Officer in their respective fields.

Each issue will be held to academic journal editorial standards in the CT field.

Contractor must produce 11 editions of the Sentinel with each edition due by the last workday in the month produced (Friday). The acceptable quality level is 100% with a deviation of 5% triggering a formal

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