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R -- OPERATION/MAINTENANCE OF FOREIGN SCIENCE LIBRARY SOL F33657-95-R-0063 POC Tianda M. Sherrell (513) 255-3273/Contracting Officer, Patricia E. Blakely, (513) 255-3273. The National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC), Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio is contemplating a five year, single award contract for the operation and maintenance for five years of Foreign Science Library (FSL). The Foreign Science Library has a collection of over 116,000 volumes of books, monographs and reference works and approximately 6000 titles of journals and newspapers, which occupy approximately 13,600 linear feet of shelf space. The FSL will be housed on a government facility on Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The majority of the collection is in foreign languages and consists primarily of information on the subjects of science and technology, medicine, and military systems and forces. Also included are reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, catalogues, product brochures, and guidebooks for specific countries and cities. This contract will also require the acquisition of foreign, scientific and technical publications in accordance with the Government's stated requirements, forwarding selected publication to various agencies for data base input processing, providing document and information acquisition services to NAIC, document deliver and interlibrary loans, library collection management, inventory control, and other services, and conducting specialized information research and limited translation activities. This requirement was advertised in the 11 April 1995 edition of the CBD as sources sought synopsis. This is the presolicitation notice for a 100 % small business set aside acquisition. The formal RFP will be released approximately 15 days after publication of this announcement. Offerors will then have 30 days in which to respond to the RFP. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Col Robert C. Helt at (513) 255-1427. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have been previously brought to the attention of the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. (0107)

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