Sources Sought Cengage Learning Inc. Gale Multi Database
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
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- Solicitation number
- FA8604-20-Q-5041
- Agency
- AFLCMC Wright Patterson AFB Lifecycle Management Center, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 519130 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- PSC
- 7630 Newspapers And Periodicals
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This pre-solicitation notice seeks information from potential offerors for a multi-year subscription to the Gale Multi-Topic Database package to be procured by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The database package must include Gale published eBooks, reference collections, and various topic databases covering subjects such as business, health, and history. It must also provide National Geographic content from 1888 to present across databases, videos, images, and books. Responses are requested by September 3rd to determine whether to pursue a full and open competition or small business set-aside. Responses should address the offeror's size status and ability to meet requirements.
There is no set-aside designated for this requirement. The current contractor providing these services is Cengage Learning Inc. The database package would be for fiscal years 2020 through 2024. Key requirements include access to DoD reference eBooks, backfiles, unlimited simultaneous users, individual and aggregated database searching and browsing, notes/highlighting features, and a mobile application.
Notice text
Sources Sought Synopsis
Product description: Gale Multi-Topic Database package. Tools feature 160 million full-text articles from leading books, journals, magazines, newspapers and primary sources, multimedia assets including videos, podcasts, tutorials and images, daily updates of new content. These databases cover subject matter with a specific focus on business practices, literary resources, environmental studies, and world cultures. The information is provided in a simple user interface that allows users to search an individual database or the entire collection. Gale Cengage users can browse by topic or preform detailed searches. They can also use the Access My Library mobile application that is customizable app that allows users to save article, citation, and links.
Product characteristics an equal item must meet to be considered:
- Must provide Gale published eBooks - 25 tiles from pick list
- Must provide Gale in Context: Biography, Gale General OneFile with Collections & Health Reference Center Academic
- Gale General OneFiles - Agriculture, Business, Business Economics and Theory, Communication and Mass Media, Criminal Justice, Culinary Arts, Diversity Studies, Environmental Issues and Policy, Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture, Gender Studies, Home Improvement, Hospitality, Tourism, Leisure, Information Science, and Library Issues, Insurance and Liability, Nursing and Allied Health, Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine, Pop Culture, Popular Magazines, Professional, Psychology, Religion and Philosophy, U.S. History, Vocations and Careers, War and Terrorism.
- Must provide National Geographic Kids, National Geographic People, Animals, World, & National Geographic Current to 1888 databases
- Must provide National Geographic produced content of videos, images, maps, books and magazines from 1888 to present
- Must provide access to DoD owned Gale published Reference eBooks in databases searches and topic finder for customer usage
- Must include backfiles and unlimited simultaneous access to content by users.
- Must be able to provide peer reviewed material and articles
- Must be able to provide material on all subjects listed above and specific content provider/publisher
- Needs to be able to provide searches by all database or by individual databases
- 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
Attachments
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Sources Sought.pdf |
Notice history
| Notice | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| J&A Cengage Learning Inc. Gale Multi Database | Limited / Sole Source Justification | |
| Intent to Award Sole Source Cengage Learning Inc. Gale Multi Database | Pre-Solicitation | |
| Sources Sought Cengage Learning Inc. Gale Multi Database | Pre-Solicitation |
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