SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Application Design Services - Solicitation and Attachments
- Notice Date
- 6/2/2015
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Library of Congress, Contracts Services, Contracts Services, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC, 20540-9411
- ZIP Code
- 20540-9411
- Solicitation Number
- LCLSB15Q0010
- Archive Date
- 7/1/2015
- Point of Contact
- Arneen F Dozier, Phone: 202-707-0406
- E-Mail Address
-
adoz@loc.gov
(adoz@loc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The solicitation and Attachments 1.0 BACKGROUND 1.1 Business Need The Library of Congress is in need of Applications Services to assist in the creation of a Consolidated Traffic Manager (CTM). The CTM will be an application with a common platform for the Electronic Cataloging in Publication (ECIP) Traffic Manager and the new automated systems of the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Program. The CTM will take the existing ECIP Traffic Manager and re-engineer it to provide needed upgrades and add new functionalities. Additionally, a separate module for ISSN functionalities will be created. The current ECIP Traffic Manager Application is a collection of several different components that have been merged together to work as a single application. Although the current application is serviceable it needs to be upgraded into a more modern programming environment and re-engineered into a robust application to avoid the potential of catastrophic failure in the future. Additionally, the Library of Congress requires the creation of an application to support the U.S. ISSN Center activities. The Library of Congress has assessed the two initiatives and performed a Cost Benefit Analysis which has determined that the most cost effective solution is to combine the ECIP Traffic Manager upgrade and the creation of the ISSN functionality into a single initiative. Background information on ISSN, ECIP and its component parts is provided below. 1.2 International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) One of the programs within the Library of Congress's Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate is operation of the U.S. ISSN Center, which is responsible for assigning ISSN (International Standard Serial Numbers) to U.S. serial publications. The U.S. ISSN Center assigns approximately 7,000 ISSN per year, a number that is likely to grow in coming years. As many as 10,000 email queries (including ISSN requests) can be received in a given year, some of which will be referred to other ISSN centers throughout the world. ISSN requests can be received singly, in pairs (one ISSN for a print version, another ISSN for an online version) or in batches that in unusual circumstances can range up to 100 titles. U.S. ISSN Center staff members are primarily located in the ISSN Section of the U.S. Programs, Law, and Literature Division (USPRLL), the division that also houses the Cataloging in Publication Program (CIP). Other staff assigning ISSN are located in several LC divisions. Some staff telework for one or more days a week. As noted above, the contract for the Consolidated Traffic Manager will upgrade the existing ECIP Traffic Manager and provide a comparable system for managing ISSN requests and processes. The U.S. ISSN Center is part of the ISSN Network which has 88 ISSN centers worldwide coordinated by the ISSN International Centre (ISSN IC) located in Paris. The U.S. ISSN Center can only assign ISSN to serials and other continuing resources published in the United States. Requests for ISSN are received primarily from publishers but also from libraries, the U.S. Postal Service, other ISSN centers, and vendors such as subscription agencies, aggregators of serials content, and digitizers. The U.S. ISSN Center is part of the CONSER program, a component of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) and uses the OCLC WorldCat database to create or update records with ISSN and the metadata needed to support ISSN assignments. Records created or updated by the U.S. ISSN Center are made available weekly by ftp to the ISSN IC for addition to the international ISSN Register, the central database of ISSN assignments worldwide. The ISSN component of the Consolidated Traffic Manager will automate manual processes in the U.S. ISSN Center in order to handle ISSN requests more efficiently. The U.S. ISSN Center currently lacks an integrated system for receiving, tracking, and processing requests for ISSN, a workflow that includes communicating with requestors and interoperating with OCLC WorldCat and the LC Voyager ILS. Only two components of the existing ISSN workflow are currently automated and these are both stand-alone systems. One system, the CONSER ISSN Web Form, is used by CONSER libraries to request needed ISSN. It is a database that was developed by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office ca. 2000. The Automated ISSN Register (AIR), a system that manages blocks of ISSN allocated by the ISSN International Centre and allocates the next available ISSN when basic ISSN metadata is input, was developed by the Library of Congress Information Technology Services unit and put into production in August 2009. It is intended that the ISSN component of the Consolidated Traffic Manager incorporate the functionality of the CONSER ISSN Web Form and either interoperate with, or replace, the Automated ISSN Register. All questions are due on June 5, 2015 at 2:00pm with answers posted by June 10, 2015. No questions will be accepted after June 5. All response are due on June 16, 2015 at 2:00pm. All questions csn be done by email to adoz@loc.gov. Attached is a copy of the solicitation and Attachment I and II.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: The Library of Congress, Library Services/acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, 101 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20540, United States
- Zip Code: 20540
- Zip Code: 20540
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