SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Serial Subscription Support Services
- Notice Date
- 6/27/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Procurement and Property Division, Procurement and Property Branch (Beltsville), 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Building 3, Mailstop: 5118, Beltsville, MD, 20705
- ZIP Code
- 20705
- Solicitation Number
- 06-3K06-02
- Response Due
- 8/16/2002
- Archive Date
- 8/16/2002
- Point of Contact
- Kevin Clark, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-504-1744, Fax 301-504-1751, - Anthony Wimbush, Supervisory Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 504-1748/(202) 720-3998, Fax (301) 504-1751/(202) 720-3987,
- E-Mail Address
-
kclark@ars.usda.gov, twimbush@ars.usda.gov
- Description
- The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is seeking interested sources to obtain serial subscription services. NAL acquires and preserves agricultural and related literature from throughout the world in print, CD-ROM, on-line formats and in different languages. Core to its collection are publications in agriculture, food and the life sciences published worldwide by commercial, societal, and government bodies. Much of this material is sold by subscription only. At the end of FY 2001, the NAL collection stood at approximately 3.4 million items including book and serial volumes, audiovisuals and computer software packages, manuscripts, prints and photographs. During FY 2001 NAL staff processed approximately 80,000 serial issues for approximately 19,000 distinct serial copies, including numerous gift and exchange titles. In a full year approximately 2,000 serial subscriptions are acquired from the US, UK, and Canada, with 90% of the total subscriptions being renewed annually. The Contractor shall provide support for the ordering of subscriptions over the life of the contract and be responsible for ensuring delivery of all subscriptions to the correct location within the publisher's agreed-to time frames in accordance with commercial practices. The Contractor shall provide administrative services for each subscription placed until three (3) months after its expiration, or receipt of the last issue received by the library or whichever is later. The Contractor shall be able to supply a machine-readable equivalent of their paper invoices in EDI invoice message format that is certified by Endeavor, Information Systems for use in the Voyager Integrated Library System. The requested subscription term shall commence upon contract award thru the 2003 subscription year with four one-year options periods. The solicitation issuance date is expected to be on or about July 15, 2002 under NAICS Code: 511120, with the possibility of granting multiple awards. Solicitation requests should be sent to the attention of Kevin Clark (kclark@ars.usda.gov), U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Procurement & Property Division, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Mail Stop 5118, Beltsville, MD 20705-5118, or by fax to (301) 505-1751.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Service Delivery: NAL, Beltsville, MD
- Country: United States
- Record
- SN00100514-W 20020629/020627213059 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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