SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Annuity Payment Services for Foreign Applications/Patents
- Notice Date
- 5/11/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Acquisition and Property Division, Acquisition Branch (MD), 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Building 3, Mailstop: 5116, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705
- ZIP Code
- 20705
- Solicitation Number
- AG-3K06-P-11-0229
- Archive Date
- 6/16/2011
- Point of Contact
- Marcos A. Ocadiz, Phone: 301-504-1749
- E-Mail Address
-
marcos.ocadiz@ars.usda.gov
(marcos.ocadiz@ars.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), USDA, ARS, the Forest Service (FS), and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) intends to award on a sole source basis the services to docket, track, and report quarterly on the status of foreign patents including the payment of annuities, taxes and maintenance fees to maintain existing patents in force to Computer Packages Inc., (CPI), 414 Hungerford Dr, 3rd Floor, Rockville, MD 20850 Vendor shall provide docketing, tracking, payment and reporting services for non-domestic (foreign) applications/patents. Vendor shall maintain a current case docket to ensure that fees for annuities and taxes are paid on a timely basis. Vendor shall enter information in its docketing system from Government-furnished and publically available records to effect the payment of annuities, taxes, and maintenance fees. Vendor shall have a computerized docketing, tracking, and payment database system with the capabilities to calculate and administer different country by country patent regulations in regards to payment of annuities, taxes, and maintenance fees. Safeguards are in place to reduce or eliminate errors are a requirement, without the need of restorations. CPI sh all provide the use of patent office electronic data to verify data. Vendor shall provide paperless (online) annuity management. Patent annuity services shall include electronic due diligence audit of patents and due diligence audits. Vendor shall provide online electronic management which allows the Government to monitor costs, and Vendor shall guarantee the exchange rate. CPI is the only vendor that has the required level of safeguards and security necessary to protect intellectual property rights. CPI is the only vendor that can pay annuities and also offer data verification, online management system, electronic cleansing of data, update of missing data in client's records with patent office data, and data audits. Anticipated Date of Award: June 2, 2011
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/ARS/CB/AG-3K06-P-11-0229/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, United States
- Zip Code: 20705
- Zip Code: 20705
- Record
- SN02445123-W 20110513/110511234404-9026b7de67e75c71d0065faf591de212 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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