SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- SciFinder Web-Based Access Subscription - Notice of Intent to award to Sole-source
- Notice Date
- 8/13/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 511120
— Periodical Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, Maryland, 20857-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20857-0001
- Solicitation Number
- FDA-SOL-14-1132120
- Archive Date
- 9/11/2014
- Point of Contact
- Jacqueline L Warren, Phone: 240-402-7557, Linda Giles, Phone: 240.402.7522
- E-Mail Address
-
jacqueline.warren@fda.hhs.gov, linda.alexander-giles@fda.hhs.gov
(jacqueline.warren@fda.hhs.gov, linda.alexander-giles@fda.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Notice of Intent to award to Sole-source The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland intends to award a firm-fixed priced contract for Online Web Access to SciFinder Chemical Research Database, to the American Chemical Society (doing business as Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)) at 2540 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus, OH 43202-1505. There are no set-aside restrictions for this procurement, and date of delivery is anticipated to be 09/30/2014. American Chemical Society offers a product with capabilities that are not available from any other vendor, and controls all propriety rights for this product: 1. The FDA Biosciences Library intends to purchase subscription access to the SciFinder web based databases. The subscription includes unlimited access to the following databases: CAS Registry, CAPlus, CASReac, ChemList, ChemCats, MARPAT, all of which are solely owned by The American Chemical Society. 2. The CAS Registry database includes information on 134 million substances, including synonyms, molecular formulas, ring analysis data, structure diagrams, experimental and predicted property data and ILiterature references. 3. CASReac database includes 48 million single and multistep chemical reactions. This includes structure diagrams for reactants and products, CAS Registry Numbers for all reactants, products, reagents, solvents, catalysts, detailed reaction conditions and experimental procedures. 4. Other features include 2 billion predicted property values, 3 million experimental properties, 966,000 searchable Markush structures, 296,000 inventoried or regulated chemicals, journal article references from 10,000 major scientific journals. Patent records from the major patent offices are available within 2 days of patents issuance. Links to electronic full-text articles and patents are featured, as well as commercial chemical suppliers for ordering purposes. 5. All resources are searchable through a single web-based interface. The interface is hosted on CAS servers, and accessible 24/7 with user ID/password. CAS offers online tutorials, webinars, and or in person training as needed. The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of FAR 6.302-1. Interested entities may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice is not a request for proposal and a solicitation will not be issued in conjunction with the notice of intent. Any vendor that believes it can provide the stated supplies/equipment can provide supporting documents demonstrating their products capability and specifications statement. The FDA will review all responses received; however, the Government retains the sole discretion not to further compete the proposed acquisition based on responses to this notice. Information can be sent to Jacqueline Warren at Jacqueline.Warren@fda.hhs.gov. No telephone or facsimile requests will be accepted.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/FDA/DCASC/FDA-SOL-14-1132120/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20993, United States
- Zip Code: 20993
- Zip Code: 20993
- Record
- SN03464197-W 20140815/140814000512-4e9d758927a295fb156150bc2fe35cb4 (fbodaily.com)
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