NAL Collection Maintenance Services

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) issues this solicitation for a firm fixed price service contract for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) Collection Maintenance Services. The National Agricultural Library (NAL), part of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is one of four national libraries of the United States. The NAL collection consists of over 3 million physical items (stored in the fourteen-story Abraham Lincoln Building in Beltsville, MD) as well as extensive electronic collections.  The NAL collection is a unique and valuable resource, and the centerpiece for all the services NAL provides.  As a national library, NAL has a twofold mission regarding its collection: to provide access for current users and to preserve the collection for the use of future generations. NAL requires a contractor to provide maintenance support for the physical collection and document delivery service for NAL users.  The goal of this contract is to maintain the NAL collection in the best possible physical condition, to provide customers with quick and easy access to materials from the NAL collection, and to provide USDA employees with documents needed to support their work.