Taylor and Group eBooks

Naval Supply Systems Command San Diego hereby gives NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE to Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., for their eBook collections for this purchase and include: Military & Strategic Studies [AND] Security Studies 2018-2022 and Routledge Handbooks Online 2020, 2021, 2022. Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, is the sole supplier/ manufacturer of these collection of eBooks. Content is proprietary to Taylor and Francis Group, LLC., and these collections include scholarly content on topics including intelligence, international relations, security, terrorism, and counterterrorism, warfare, political extremism, and peace and conflict. Access to these eBook collections will strengthen, broaden, and deepen research capabilities at NPS. Market Research identified as Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, as the only source able to fulfill the requirement. 

Delivery Date:  30 SEPTEMBER 2022

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 511130, Book Publishers.

This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the Government. The Government will consider responses received within 3 days of issuance of this notice. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a full and open competitive procurement or a small business set aside competitive procurement. The Government will not pay for any information received in response to this announcement.

There will be no written solicitation issued. This is an intent to purchase a sole source procurement under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. This will be a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract utilizing Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures.

The contractor needs to be registered in the DoD System for Award Management (SAM).  Register via the SAM website https://www.sam.gov, and also be eligible to process invoices through Wide Area Workflow (WAWF).  Register via the WAWF website https://wawf.eb.mil.

Those capable of meeting the requirement IAW the SOW are requested to provide the following information in their response:  1) Current capability that demonstrates your company's ability to meet the above requirement, 2) Company name, point of contact, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, type of business and size, Cage Code and Unique Entity ID. 

IMPORTANT NOTES: 1) Information submitted will not be returned to the respective respondents. Oral submissions of information are not acceptable and will not be accepted in response to this notice. 2) Respondents may respond via e-mail no later than 26 AUGUST 2022, 5:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time (PST) to patricia.castillo26.civ@us.navy.mil 

If no responsible, responsive offers are received by the above date, a sole source contract will be issued to Taylor and Francis Group LLC., under the authority of FAR 6.302-1.