Electronic Access via the Internet

Added: Jul 06, 2015 4:13 pm The National Agriculture Library (NAL), the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Beltsville, MD. On behalf of NAL, intends to award a sole source award to Canadian Science Publishing with base year and four (4) option years. The purpose of this award is to provide NAL electronic access via IP authentication over the internet to all Canadian Science Publishing/NCR Research Press Journals. Canadian Science Publishing/NCR Research Press Journals will also provide the following: A) Provide and maintain administrative credentials for access to institutional administrative interface for the purposes of customization, usage data retrieval and other administrative purposes, as permitted by the system. B) Provide COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for each Canadian Science Publishing/NCR Research press publication. C) Provide Usage statistics report to include the IP address of every user and their respective use of the Canadian Science Publishing/NCR Research Press Journals. Access to these publications will be for use by all USDA employees, contractors, authorized public on-site users, cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of USDA and acting within the scope of their relationship with USDA.

The NAICS Code for this requirement is 511120

Authority for this sole source procurement is under 10 U.S.C.2403 (c)(1) as implemented in FAR 6.302-1 (b)(1)(i), only one responsible source an no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.  This notice is not a request for competitive quotations.  No solicitation document is available and telephone request will not be honored.  Any firm that believes it can provide the services listed above may submit substantiating documentation in writing to the identified point of contact.  The successful company must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and also the Online Representations and Certitication (ORCA) at http://orca.bpn.gov.  Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determinig whether to conduct a competitive procurement.  Oral communications is not acceptable in response to this notice.  A determination not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government.  The Point of Contact for this action is Ms. Sabrina Brown and any responses must be emailed to Sabrina.Brown@ars.usda.gov.  Verbal responses are not acceptable and will not be considered.  Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond this requirement no later than July 16, 2015.