National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Fort Mason, Building. 201, San Francisco, CA 94123.

D -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT FOR LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND SERVER SOL 1443RQ8520-98-001 DUE 121197 POC Point of Contact-Joel Simmons, Contract Specialist, 415-561-4505 E-MAIL: National Park Service, GGNRA, joel_r_simmons@nps.gov. The National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, Ca intends to negotiate award of a noncompetitive contract to Endeavor Information Systems, Inc., of Des Plaines, IL to provide a Library Management Software and System used to create a union catalog of the National Park Service library and bibliographic records pointing to collection holdings, research reports and other media formats managed by the National Park Service, including live links to full-text, images, and multi-media. This software will enable the National Park Service to demonstrate the utility of merging thematically oriented data sets contributed from multiple parks, augmented by hot links to external Internet resources, all searchable via one client interface complying with the international Z39.50 search and retrieval information protocol standard. This noncompetitive action is pursued IAW Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1 [41 USC 253( c )(1)]. SIC code is 7375. (0316)

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