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R -- PRODUCTION OF BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS SOL RFP SRS 99-026 DUE 101299 POC Philip M. King, 703-306-1242 WEB: Click here to download a copy of RFP SRS 99-026., http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/contract/sol.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the solicitation point-of-contact, pking@nsf.gov. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required by statute to submit to the President and Congress biennially a statistical report on science and engineering in the United States. This report, "Science & Engineering Indicators (S&EI)," was first produced in 1972; the latest in the series will be released in the year 2000. Responsibility for preparing the S&EI volumes rests with the Division of Science Resources Studies, which uses data from various sources, most notably its own on-going surveys of R&D funding and personnel. The S&EI contains measures of scientific output derived from scientific literature and covers bibliometric variables, such as scientific articles by field and country, sector of performance, national and international co-authorship, citations in scientific literature and patents, and relations to the GDP. Over the years, the S&EI volumes have been based largely on science literature data derived from the Science Citation Index (SCI), which is owned and compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information of Philadelphia, PA. The SCI database includes not only citations to articles, but also the articles as well, thereby enabling the possibility of quantitative impact analyses of scientific work. NSF is seeking innovative approaches to the creation of the science literature-based output indicators necessary for the S&EI volumes, and is seeking proposals for powerful, economical, and compelling characterizations of the policy-relevant variables of its choosing (further described in the solicitation). These may be realized either by continuing to work with the SCI database to improve the production process and the final products or by using different databases and creating new forms of indicators as specified in the Statement of Work. The required services are for the production of S&EI: 2002 and S&EI: 2004. All sources are invited to participate in this procurement. The applicable SIC is 7379-Computer Related Services, N.E.C., and the small business size standard is average annual receipts not exceeding $18M for the past three complete fiscal years. Small disadvantaged business (SDB) participation evaluation factors [i.e., SDB participation goals (FAR 19.1202) or SDB price evaluation adjustment (FAR 19.1101)] will be applied in the proposal evaluation process, as appropriate. RFP SRS 99-026 is expected to be released on August 30, 1999 and will be available for downloading from the NSF Web site at http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/cpo/contract/sol.htm. Prospective offerors will be required to submit its past performance information (as described in the solicitation) by September 28, 1999. Interested parties that intend to download the solicitation or otherwise participate in the procurement are strongly encouraged to provide by email or letter (addresses included elsewhere in this notice) the name, address, and telephone numbers for the company or entity and a point-of-contact. NSF intends to provide any further information pertaining to this solicitation to those entities that provide the requested information, unless a supplemetal CBD notice is warranted. Although it is intended that interested parties obtain a copy of the solicitation by downloading it from the Web site cited above, written requests for the solicitation will be honored. Telephonic requests for copies of the solicitation will not be honored. Posted 08/13/99 (W-SN367815). (0225)

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