Sources Sought Notice DoDL Chilton Nat Geo and Legal Reference.pdf

Sources Sought 773 Enterprise Sourcing Squadron

DoDL Chilton, Nat Geo And Legal Reference

This is a Sources Sought Synopsis published by the United States Air Force (the Government or USAF).

There is no solicitation available at this time. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. The purpose of this Sources Sought notice is to conduct market research to determine whether there are businesses available capable of providing an alternative product that meets the characteristics below. The Air Force anticipates procuring this product as a FY24 base period with two (2) 12-months option periods. The projected Period of Performance (PoP) for this subscription is:

Base Period: 30 September 2024 – 29 September 2025 Option Period 1: 30 September 2025 – 29 September 2026 Option Period 2: 30 September 2026 – 29 September 2027

Responses to this Sources Sought notice will assist in a determination of whether it is in the best interest of the Government to proceed with a competition.

PSC: 7630

NAICS: 519290– Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services Size Standard: 1000 employees Subscription name: DoDL Chiltons, Nat Geo And Legal Reference

Description:

This requirement is to procure a subscription to Chilton’s Auto Repair Manuals, National Geographic (Magazine, Kids, People, Animal, World and various media formats), and Legal Reference database that works with our Gale Entrepreneurship and Business database package subscription.

Chilton’s Auto Repair manuals database provides information on repairing over 2,600 latest to vintage vehicle makes and models with comprehensive automotive expertise. The car repair database must be directed toward DIY repair. Information must include information in full text, diagrams, specification tables, troubleshooting guides, photos, illustrations, multimedia (videos and animation), and ASE test prep.

Legal Forms and Reference provides a database of legal forms to help support the Gale’s Small Business database currently subscribed to by DoD Libraries.

Military and Intelligence resources in the and other resources provides the primary resources needed to support DoD libraries customers’ needs.

National Geographic Kids, National Geographic People, Animals, World, & National Geographic issues/content that is from Current date to back issues from 1888. Content including full-text books, magazines, videos, maps and National Geographic images. National Geographic Kids includes the complete run of the magazine from the first issue in 2009 to the present and provides authoritative, age-appropriate digital content suitable for younger students in subjects like English Language Arts, social studies, and science.

Product Characteristics:

• Must provide Chilton’s Auto manuals, National Geographic (Magazine, Kids, People, Animal, World), and Legal Forms

• Must provide National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World provides unlimited access to digital content that attracts, engages and informs students, educators, researchers and general readers including full-text books, magazines, videos, maps and National Geographic images.

• Must provide National Geographic produced content of videos, images, maps, books and magazines from 1888 to present

• Must provide National Geographic Kids includes the complete run of the magazine from the first issue in 2009 to the present and provides authoritative, age-appropriate digital content suitable for younger students in subjects like English Language Arts, social studies, and science.

• Must provide Chilton’s Autor repair manuals database provides information on repairing over 2,600 latest to vintage vehicle makes and models with comprehensive automotive expertise.

• The car repair database must be directed toward DIY repair. Information must include information in full text, diagrams, specification tables, troubleshooting guides, photos, illustrations, multimedia (videos and animation), and ASE test prep.

• Must provide a database of legal forms to help support the Gale’s Entrepreneurship and Small Business currently contracted by DoD Libraries.

• Must provide current, general use legal forms and guidance. Database should provide legal forms from the fifty (50) states drafted by attorneys and law firms in subject areas from real estate, wills, bankruptcy, bill of sale, contracts, employment, incorporate, landlord tenant, living wills, name change, power of attorney, real estate, taxes, divorce, to other subject areas.

• Must include backfiles and unlimited simultaneous access to content by users.

• In addition to legal forms, this database should also provide legal Q&A, attorney directory, product descriptions, law digest with major legal case coverage, and comprehensive form description documents.

• Needs to be able to browse by subject with visual topic map/finder graphic alternative to get regular search results

• Needs to have notes and highlight feature to articles/topics that can be downloaded or printed by customer for later usage and work seamlessly with Google and Microsoft customer personal accounts for saving information for later usage.

• Needs to have a mobile application that allows users to save articles, citations, and links

• Must provide free staff training and complimentary marketing services.

• Must be able to provide statistics for each branch of service and other category.

• Must work with contract POC to establish authentication methods to provide optimal accessibility for all eligible patrons.

• Must work with the current contracted platform EBSCO Stacks for customer accessibility.

• Security between the Website and server must be Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3

• Must be able to supply or allow retrieval of database usage statistics by Branch of Service (Air

Force, Army, Marine Corps, Military OneSource/Other, and Navy)

• Must have HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with long duration deployed on the servers to mitigate/prevent man-in-the-middle attacks

• Website certificates should be RSA 2048-bits (SHA256withRSA)

• VCL must be able to test the platform to evaluate if it meets requirements. Must provide username and password to view content on platform.

The Government will consider responses received within 5 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 competes 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 an administrative decision by the Government that is solely within its discretion.

Contractors should be aware of the following information:

1. Contractors must include the following information:

a. Company name, points of contact, email addresses, phone numbers, company address, website, CAGE Code and UEI.

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. Would your firm propose on this project as a prime contractor, prime contractor with subcontractor(s), prime contractor with team member subcontractor(s), or a joint venture? If you have proposed a joint venture, identify to the extent possible, your team members. Identify the business size of your team members or joint venture firms. If a teaming arrangement is planned, give details to the extent practicable on how the team likely will be composed. See FAR subpart

9.6 for Government policy on teaming arrangements and 8(a) Program regulations described in

13 CFR 124.513.

e. Capabilities Statement.

f. Identify any projects completed in the past three (3) years for the same or similar items to help determine your firm’s capability in meeting the requirement for the items listed in the product characteristics above. Include any government contracts (Federal, State, or local) that you have been awarded for this type of requirement. Also, include the contract number and a government point of contact.

2. Offerors are encouraged to suggest products other than those that may be specifically referenced by brand name. Responses must address how alternate product meet the product characteristics specified above.

3. Submitted information shall be UNCLASSIFIED.

4. Responses are limited to 10 pages in an Adobe PDF format.

Any information submitted by respondents to this Sources Sought notice is strictly voluntary. The Government will not reimburse the respondents for any costs associated with their response. This synopsis does not constitute a Request for Proposals nor does its issuance restrict the Government as to its ultimate acquisition approach. The Government reserves the right to contact the submitting parties, on an as required basis, for further clarification on material provided. Respondents should not construe this notice as a commitment by the Air Force for any purpose.

Responses shall be emailed to Contract Specialists, Jackelin Guerrero Funes at jackelin.guerrero_funes@us.af.mil and Contracting Officer Ernest Medina at ernest.medina.2@us.af.mil no later than 10 August 2024, 3:00 PM CDT. Any questions should be sent via email to the above POCs.