SPECIAL NOTICE
U -- OCLC Access to Cataloging & Loan Services
- Notice Date
- 5/10/2021 6:01:21 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- DEPT OF COMMERCE NOAA SEATTLE WA 98115 USA
- ZIP Code
- 98115
- Solicitation Number
- NRMA00002100584CM2
- Response Due
- 5/24/2021 12:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 05/25/2021
- Point of Contact
- Casey Morris, Phone: 3034974973
- E-Mail Address
-
casey.morris@noaa.gov
(casey.morris@noaa.gov)
- Description
- ***NOAA's Acquisition & Grants Office, Western Acquisition Division-Boulder, Central & Regional Libraries Offices, intends to negotiation, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with Online Computer Library Center, Inc (OCLC), to purchase cataloging and interlibrary loan subscription access services for 3 NOAA libraries. ***The sole source determination is based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requirement that OCLC is the only library can provide the scope and breadth of materials and participating libraries. It is the single resource used by all types of libraries to provide these services from public to academic to government research libraries. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. WorldCat has holding records from public and private libraries worldwide. The OCLC database for cataloging and searching purposes uses the Connexion computer program. OCLC services are used to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, and preserve library materials. The OCLC database contains records in Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format contributed by library catalogers worldwide who use OCLC as a cataloging tool. These MARC format records are then downloaded into the libraries� local catalog systems. This allows libraries to find and download records for materials to add to their local catalog without the lengthy process of cataloging each individually. Titles not available in WorldCat can be added by member libraries for use by all in the system. The NOAA Library and Information Network which comprises of over 20 NOAA libraries around the country have been using OCLC and its services for over 40 years. The main OCLC services are cataloging and interlibrary loan. There is no other company that has the resources available to provide the services required by NOAA. Subscription from July1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. ***THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS AND NO SOLICITATION PACKAGE IS AVAILABLE. HOWEVER, FIRMS THAT BELIEVE THEY CAN FULLY MEET THE GOVERNMENT'S REQUIREMENTS MAY SUBMIT SUBSTANTIATING DOCUMENTATION IN WRITING TO THE IDENTIFIED POINT OF CONTACT WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION OF THIS SYNOPSIS. SUCH DOCUMENTATION WILL BE EVALUATED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT TO CONDUCT THIS PROCUREMENT ON A COMPETITIVE BASIS. A DETERMINATION BY THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO CONDUCT A COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT, BASED UPON RESPONSES TO THIS NOTICE, IS SOLELY WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE GOVERNMENT. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE IN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE.
- Web Link
-
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN05996529-F 20210512/210511201419 (samdaily.us)
- Source
-
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