SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- ProQuest ABI/Inform
- Notice Date
- 9/7/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, MICC, MICC - Fort Lee, 1830 Quartermaster Road, Bldg 7124, Fort Lee, Virginia, 23801-1606, United States
- ZIP Code
- 23801-1606
- Solicitation Number
- 0010971604
- Archive Date
- 9/28/2017
- Point of Contact
- Tawana K. Brown, Phone: 80047344570
- E-Mail Address
-
tawana.k.brown.civ@mail.mil
(tawana.k.brown.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A Special Notice ONLY. The U.S. Government currently intends to award a contract for ProQuest ABI/Inform Subscription on an SOLE SOURCE basis. The proposed sole source, firm fixed price contract to ProQuest, LLC. for ProQuest ABI/Inform Subscriptions for the Army Logistics University Library. The statutory authority for the sole source procurement is FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), for purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT), only one source reasonably available, urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand name, or industrial mobilization. ProQuest ABI/Inform is a subscription that provides researchers with the capability to access multiple collections over a secured platform enabling an encrypted, more secure way to communicate between browsers and services. It is a comprehensive and diverse business database online that provides scholarly and non- scholarly content based on feedback from business researchers. The ProQuest ABI/Inform collection offers full text format of key journals, influential business news, cutting-edge thinking accessing more than 450K working papers from research papers, comprehensive collection of relevant literature and expert market information. ProQuest has over 40 million company records, 50 years of actual and forecasted economic data and thousands of business cases and case studies. It covers all disciplines and the diverse content types needed by researchers. Assess is on an unlimited basis to unlimited users on multiple platforms. This notice does not constitute a Request for Quote (RFQ) or a promise to issue an RFQ in the future. This notice does not commit the U.S. Government to contract for any supply or service. Further, the U.S. Government is not seeking quotes at this time and will not accept unsolicited proposals in response to this special notice. The U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this notice. Submittals will not be returned to the responder. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. However, if a competitive solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the Government-wide Point of Entry. It is the responsibility of potential offerors to monitor the Government-wide Point of Entry for additional information pertaining to this requirement. The NAICS codes is: 519130 - Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals If you feel your company can meet the needs of the requirement, please provide the following: 1. Name of the firm, point of contact, phone number, email address, DUNS number, CAGE code, identify business size (large business or a small business), and if applicable, a statement regarding small business status (including small business type(s)/certifications(s) such as SDB, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.) and the corresponding NAICS code. 2. Identify whether your firm is interested in competing for this requirement as a prime contractor or not. Identify subcontracting, joint ventures or teaming arrangement that will be pursued, if any. 3. Information in sufficient detail regarding previous experience (indicate whether as a prime contractor or subcontractor) on similar requirements (include size, scope, complexity, timeframe, government or commercial), pertinent certifications, etc., that will facilitate making a capability determination. 4. Identify any condition or action that may be having the effect of unnecessarily restricting competition with respect to this acquisition and identify alternatives or solutions. Also contact the MICC Advocate for Competition, Scott Kukes, at scott.d.kukes.civ@mail.mil or 210-466-2269, if you believe that this action is unreasonably restricting competition. Include the subject of the acquisition, this announcement, and the MICC POC information from the Sources Sought Synopsis. Provide the specific aspects that unreasonably restrict competition and the rationale for such conclusion.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Army Logistics University, Fort Lee, Virginia, 23801, United States
- Zip Code: 23801
- Zip Code: 23801
- Record
- SN04666652-W 20170909/170907232738-612a6f3282b9e383cfa2b7653c190583 (fbodaily.com)
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