SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Westlaw Online Subscription Services
- Notice Date
- 10/31/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of Procurement, P. O. Box 1450 - Mail Stop 6, 600 Dulany Street, MDE, 7th Floor, Alexandria, Virginia, 22313-1450
- ZIP Code
- 22313-1450
- Solicitation Number
- PTO-1400002
- Archive Date
- 11/7/2013
- Point of Contact
- Teresa A. Kelley, Phone: 571-272-3262
- E-Mail Address
-
teresa.kelley@uspto.gov
(teresa.kelley@uspto.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) intends to issue a commercial item contract to West Publishing Company, 610 Opperman Drive, Saint Paul, MN, for a subscription to its online legal, business, and news content on an unlimited use basis. The price of the subscription and the unlimited access will be a fixed monthly price. The contract will contain a base year and four one-year options with an estimated total price, base and all options included, of $3,792,964.44. Period of performance for the base year is 1 November 2013 through 31 October 2014. Market research indicates that West Publishing Company is the only source of USPTO-required data bases and therefore, most likely to successfully meet the agency's needs. Westlaw is the only known source for consolidated intellectual property and legal content that uses a master classification system of U.S. laws. The WestlawNext platform provides a Google-like search page and enables a full search across all included content, ensuring a comprehensive set of results. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statues, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, intellectual property content, journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources. As a result of USPTO's exemption from the Competition in Contracting Act, the subject requirement is being procured using the Alternative Competition Method in accordance with the Patent and Trademark Office Acquisition Guidelines (PTAG) and the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act, 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(4)(A).
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/PTO/OPDC20220/PTO-1400002/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia, 22313-1450, United States
- Zip Code: 22313-1450
- Zip Code: 22313-1450
- Record
- SN03225977-W 20131102/131031234714-073d5fe5ea51c3a7f7bbc80a7263cbf4 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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