SciFinder Platform
Awarded Limited / Sole Source Justification Posted
- Solicitation number
- 1333ND24PNB130032
- Agency
- National Institute of Standards and Technology Department of Commerce
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- Contract number
- 1333ND24PNB130032 Federal contract award
- NAICS code
- 513120 Periodical Publishers
- PSC
- 7H20 It And Telecom - Platform Products: Database, Mainframe, Middleware (Hw, Perpetual License Software)
- Place of performance
- Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Institute of Standards and Technology published a Limited/Sole Source Justification Notice to award a sole source contract to the American Chemistry Society for access to its proprietary SciFinder Discovery Platform database. The SciFinder Platform contains over 34 million substance records and provides NIST scientists with online access to the most comprehensive collection of life sciences and biomedical literature. As the American Chemistry Society owns the proprietary rights to the required database and does not permit other vendors to sell access, market research found the Society to be the only responsible source to provide NIST with the specialized database access and support required. Contract number 1333ND24PNB130032 for an unknown value was awarded to the American Chemistry Society on December 22, 2023, with a base year of access and four one-year option periods.
Notice text
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg, MD intents to sole source for web-based access to Chemical Abstract Service’s (CAS) comprehensive collection of scientific patents and journal literature with American Chemistry Society (Large Business). CAS a division of the American Chemical Society has confirmed that they are the only organization in the world able to produce this product known as CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform. There are no third-party providers. No other vendor can provide platform and support required by this acquisition.
The principal databases are Chemical Abstracts (CASM), which contains over 28 million document records from the chemical journal and patent literature, and CAS REGISTRY, which contains more than 34 million substance and 59 million sequence records. The SciFinder platform will allow NIST scientists to explore Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) content including collections of scientific patents and journal literature. The SciFinder Platform will enable NIST researchers to efficiently gather specialist content on chemistry, biology, physics, geology, medicine, engineering and organic and inorganic compounds that are used in physical science, engineering and applied mathematics applications. Having access to this integrated resource of journals and patent information will enable NIST researchers to explore literature, substances, reactions, or sequences; locate a specific reference or substance; have the ability to browse table of contents of favorite journals with easy access to back issues and stay up to date with current research on topics of their choice with SciFinder's specialized alert feature. NIST scientists need to monitor the scientific literature worldwide, where they can easily discover relevant information that might otherwise be missed.
Awarded contract 1333ND24PNB130032 to unknown vendor for unknown amount on 2023-12-22.
Attachments
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| JOFOC (Final).pdf |
Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| SciFinder Platform | Limited / Sole Source Justification | |
| SciFinder Platform | Special Notice |
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