SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Professional Services for Indexing
- Notice Date
- 8/14/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- 03-201KS
- Response Due
- 8/29/2003
- Archive Date
- 9/13/2003
- Point of Contact
- Kala Shankar, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 496-6546, Fax (301) 402-0642, - Karen Riggs, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 496-6546, Fax 301 402-0642,
- E-Mail Address
-
shankak@mail.nlm.nih.gov, kr33v@nih.gov
- Description
- It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to procure professional services on a sole source basis with Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), Beijing, China, under authority of FAR 6.302, to provide indexing of Chinese journals. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is responsible for indexing life science journals for Index Medicus (IM) and MEDLINE. The purpose of the procurement is to provide a continuing stream of indexed foreign articles from biomedical journals for inclusion in IM and MEDLINE. The contractor will index life science journal articles by applying Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) describing the content of each article, following procedures and policies contained in established NLM guidelines, including the NLM indexing manual, MeSH annotations, and other NLM generated indexing aids such as Technical memoranda. The major effort involves the intellectual analysis of the article for subject content and the application of appropriate subject headings, publication types and qualifiers drawn from MeSH. The staff of the Institute of Medical Information, CAMS has for twenty years performed indexing for MEDLINE of biomedical journals published in China. They are uniquely qualified to perform this indexing because of their knowledge of the Chinese language, knowledge of Chinese medicine, and proximity to the place of publication of the biomedical journals. The Period of Performance is anticipated to be for a base year period of September 30, 2003 to September 30, 2004, and one additional one-year option period. This service will be procured under FAR Part 13 ? Simplified Acquisitions. This is not a Request for Quotations (RFQ), nor is an RFQ available, however, all responsible and responsive sources may submit a proposal that will be considered by the NLM. Firms interested in responding to this notice must be able to provide the professional technical services as specified above. Responses should demonstrate the firm's ability to meet the Government's requirements. Responses are required within 15 (fifteen) calendar days from the publication date of this notice. NLM synopsis No. 03-201/KS shall be noted on all correspondence to this announcement. Inquiries regarding this procurement may be made to Kala Shankar, Contract Specialist (301) 496-6546 or Karen Riggs, Contracting Officer, (301) 496-6127.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Panjianyuan Chaoyang District, P.O.Box 2258, Beijing
- Zip Code: 10021
- Country: China
- Zip Code: 10021
- Record
- SN00401328-W 20030816/030814214056 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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