NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771

B -- CITATION ANALYSIS OF THE NASA PATENT PROTFOLIO SOL W-10-89862 DUE 110397 POC Gary G. Borda, Patent Service General Counsel, Phone (202) 358-2038, Fax (202) 358-4341, Email gborda@hq.nasa.gov -- Barbara J. Scott, Simplified Acquisition Specialist, Phone (310) 286-6717, Fax (301) 286-0357, Email Barbara.J.Scott.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/HQ/date.html#W-10-89862. E-MAIL: Gary G. Borda, gborda@hq.nasa.gov. NASA/HQ issues this annoucement as a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for citation analysis of the NASA patent portfolio (patents assigned to NASA) from 1987 to the present. This annoucement is the RFQ, no other printed request will be issued. NASA/HQ intends to purchase the items from CHI Research, Inc. Only one responsible source 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) or 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). CHI is the proprietor of a complete database of all U.S. issued patents, and a special proprietary software that can perform the citation analysis for the desired subset of NASA patents (U.S. patents issued between 1987 and present -- approximately 1,200-1,400 patents). NASA is not aware of any other company with this unique combination of database and software, and the capability to do these citation analyses efficiently. CHI's software also cross references companies, when sold or merged, and will identify new names assignment of the patents. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP). The contractor shall provide a citation analysis of the NASA patent portfolio (patents assigned to NASA) from 1987 to the present. The NASA patent porfolio for the included dates consists of approximately 1200-1400 patents. The analysis shall cover the U.S. patent system, with possible later extension to European Patent Office. For NASA patents issued since 1987, the analysis will identify valuable patents using citation analysis; identify clusters of patents from which future potentially valuable inventions might spring; identify inventors with past successful patents; and identify potential licensees. The contractor shall supply a final report of the study, characterizing the intramural NASA patent portfolio, including tabular and graphical data and a written explanation of the data, as well as a complete diskette data base covering all citation data. The contractor shall provide a list and a diskette of all NASA patents issued since 1987. For each NASA patent, the data shall contain at a minimum: U.S. PatentNumber; Issued Date; U.S. Patent Classification; Patent Title, Name of the Inventor(s), Number of Patents cited in each NASA patent(cited patents); Number of Non-Patent References(NPR) cited in each NASA patent; Technology Cycle Time (TCT indicates the median age of cited patents for each NASA patent); Total Number of later patents citing earlier NASA patents (cited patents); Citation Percentile (most highly cited patents are in the zero percentile, patents not cited are in the 100th percentile); and for the most recent five year period, the Current Impact Index (CII measures how often NASA patents are cited compared to citations to all other patents in equivalent technologies in the same year). For all NASA Patents cited more than ten times, the contractor shall provide a specific citation diagram, identfying citing patents by year and the assignee company of the citing patents. The contractor shall provide detailed listings of citing patents, corresponding to the citing patents identified above. The data shall include at a minimum: Patent Number; Issue Date; Patent Classification; Patent Title; Name of Inventor(s); and Name of Assignee. The Name of the Assignee will be provided in a standardized form that identifies the current owner of the citing patent. That is, parent companies and their subsidary companies will be reported under a standardized company name and any reassignee of the citing patent (by reassignment of the patent because of merger/acquisition or purchase of a technology) will be identified such that the current owner of the citing patent is identified. For all NASA patents, the contractor shall provide both printed and diskette lists, which will include at a minimum: Patent Number; Issue Date; Patent Classification; Title; Name of Inventor(s); and Name of Assignee. For all NASA patents cited more than ten times (or for patents in technology areas of high interest as determined by NASA in consultation with the contractor), the contractor shall provide a diagram, indicating the companies that most highly cite the earlier NASA patent. For patents in technology areas of high interest (as determined by NASA in consultation with the contractor), the contractor shall provide a diagram identifying very productive NASA inventors (NASA inventors with multiple patents). The contractor shall identify clusters of NASA inventors (and/or NASA contractor inventors where the patents have been assigned to NASA) who are working together to produce patented inventions and provide digrams of such clusters. The contractor shall provide the identified deliverable within a three to five month time frame from issuance of the acquisition. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 22. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nnotes.htm. Interested firms have 15 days from the publication of this synopsis to submit in writing to the identified point of contact, their qualifications / capabilities to perform the services sited above. Such qualifications / capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Responses received after the 15 days or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered. A determination by the Government to not compete this proposed effort on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. (0290)

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