SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- Electronic Access to American Society for Microbiology
- Notice Date
- 12/16/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519120
— Libraries and Archives
- Contracting Office
- Agricultural Research Service - National Capital Region Business Service Center
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- AG-32SB-C-14-0006
- Archive Date
- 12/27/2013
- Point of Contact
- Marian Dixon-Durham, Phone: 3015041700
- E-Mail Address
-
marian.dixon-durham@ars.usda.gov
(marian.dixon-durham@ars.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) requires electronic access for all USDA users and public on-site users to journals of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). The contractor shall provide NAL electronic access via the internet to ASM journals, including content published on or after January 1, 2014, for use by all USDA employees and authorized public on-site users. All USDA locations worldwide are to be considered as authorized premises. USDA employees and individual employees of contractor companies, cooperators, and volunteers performing the work on behalf of USDA and acting within the scope of their relationship with USDA are considered authorized users of the database. •- Authorized users may browse, search, retrieve, display, and view an ASM Journal Online, and may download, store, or print out single copies of individual articles, or discrete items or portions of such articles, from an ASM Journal Online solely for their own use. •- Interlibrary Loan: Licensee may download and print individual articles that are faxed, mailed or hand=delivered, or scanned and transmitted electronically, to a requester under Licensee's interlibrary loan procedures, so long as the requesting institution is a noncommercial library located in the same country as Licensee. No other form of electronic transmission or forwarding of material is permitted. The contractor shall use reasonable efforts to make online access available on a continuous basis. Availability will be subject to periodic interruption and downtime for server maintenance, software installation or testing, loading new files, and reasons beyond the control of the contractor. The contractor shall provide ASM journals in accordance wit the following terms and conditions: The authorized users shall have the right to use the database content during the term 9of the subscription. The contractor shall provide USDA with limited technical support with regard to subscription activation. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 519120 Libraries and Archives In accordance with FAR 6.302-1 and 41 USC 25(c)(1), the service needed by the USDA is available from only one responsible source and no other type of service will satisfy the needs of the USDA. This notice is not a request for competitive quotations. No solicitation document is available and telephone requests will not be honored. Any firm that believes it can provide the services listed above may submit substantiating documentation in writing to the identified point of contact. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. The Point of Contact for this action is Marian Dixon-Durham and any response must be emailed to Marian.Dixon-Durham@ars.usda.gov. Verbal responses are not acceptable and will not be considered. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement no later than December 26, 2013.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USDA/NAL, 10301 Baltimore Avenue, Room G-13-C, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, United States
- Zip Code: 20705
- Zip Code: 20705
- Record
- SN03252582-W 20131218/131216234939-1a1dcd0471497ca97bf1ad225971a7d6 (fbodaily.com)
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