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R -- LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL ABSTRACTS SOL NLM 97-212/MLM POC Lynn Montalvo, Contract Specialist/Patricia S. Page, Contracting Officer/(301) 496-6546 The National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), Bethesda, Maryland, for a continuation of a License Agreement and reimbursement of royalty charges covering the use of data from their International Pharmaceutical Abstracts database in its online information retrieval services, TOXLINE and TOXLINE65. ASHP is the sole owner of the copyrighted database. It also has the requisite knowledge and experience to continue delivering the needed information from already existent databases. Data from the Contractor for 1965 through the present is already in the TOXLINE files, and NLM would experience an unacceptable delay and substantial duplication of costs should another source be used to reproduce the data collection already in place at ASHP. The proposed contract term is for one year, with options to extend the term for two additional one-year periods. Authority 41 USC 252(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1(b)(2). See Numbered Note 22. (0205)

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