Notice of Intent To Award Sole-Source SciFinder & MethodsNow Subscription

Synopsis:

This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract pursuant to 41 U.S.C.1901 as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.501 (a)(1)(ii), under the authority of the Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items. The ACC-APG Tenant Contracting Division, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD intends to award a Firm-Fixed Price sole source service contract to Chemical Abstracts Services, CAGE Code 019P5. Anticipated period of performance is a base and 2 option years. The objective of this contract is to provide a yearly subscription of SciFinder and MethodsNow website to the Technical Library at the US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. SciFinder is a web-based interface that provides unique searching functionality to the proprietary chemical information contained in Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS) databases.
Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society is the sole developer and provider of SciFinder. It has full and complete ownership and intellectual property rights to SciFinder and subscription can only be purchased from the company. The product is not available from any other organization.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this requirement is 519130. Posting date of this requirement is February 14, 2018. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement no later than 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, February 28, 2018. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition will be advantageous to the Government.

This is not a Request for Quote. This is a written notice to inform the public of the Government's intent to award on a sole source basis the required services.

Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted to:

Rex M, Valdez Email: rex.m.valdez2.civ@mail.mil. NLT 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time February 23, 2018.

Telephonic inquiries will not be considered.