SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- D-Web of Science Subscription
- Notice Date
- 1/5/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511120
— Periodical Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Mountain Region Acquisition Division, 325 Broadway - MC3, Boulder, Colorado, 80305-3328
- ZIP Code
- 80305-3328
- Solicitation Number
- NAAJ1540904870DT
- Archive Date
- 1/16/2009
- Point of Contact
- Doris P Turner, Phone: 303-497-3872
- E-Mail Address
-
doris.p.turner@noaa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOAA's Acquisition & Grants Office, Mountain Region Acquisition Division, intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with Thomson Scientific Inc., 3501 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-2785 to renew the subscription for access to Thomson's Science Citation Index Expanded database of Web of Science (WoS). The sole source determination is based on the NOAA's Information Resources Division's requirement for an annual subscription to the Web of Science (WoS) - Science Citation Index (SCI) expanded database. Web of Science software is a proprietary product of the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) which was acquired by Thomson Scientific in 1992. The WoS provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high-impact research journals in the world. WoS also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. This technique adds a unique capability to the WoS database and is also copyrighted and is not available from another source. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles. This acquisition is a renewal for a subscription service that the Boulder Labs Library has provided for NIST and NOAA scientists and researchers. Market research indicates that WoS is the only multidisciplinary database that covers all the sciences in which NIST and NOAA staff performs research. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation package is available. However, firms that believe they can provide equipment that fully meets the Government's requirements may submit substantiating documentation in writing to the identified point of contact within 10 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.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado, 80305, United States
- Zip Code: 80305
- Zip Code: 80305
- Record
- SN01726712-W 20090107/090105215043-6da94e69e3216729e2fa2eefaa1f1105 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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