U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Administrative and Finanical Management, Procurement and Property Branch, 5601 Sunnyside Ave., Mail Stop: 5118, Beltsville, MD 20705-5000

R -- LIBRARY ABSTRACTING SOL pdr8821009205010 POC Point of Contact: Pamela D. Rogers, Contracting Officer, 301-504-1741 The USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Agricultural Library seeks a contractor to index/abstract and process library materials in various published formats and media in agriculture and related sciences. The processing activities include searching manual and automated files, journal evaluation and selection, selection of articles to be indexed, descriptive indexing, subject analysis, creation of records, optical scanning of abstracts, quality control, maintenance and publication of reference/working tools, and participation in the development and maintenance of the two major international agricultural thesauri. This is a 100% small business set-aside. Interested parties should submit a written request with 4 self-addressed mailing labels to the point of contact identified in this notice. Written RFQ's will be used. Telephonic requests will not be honored. The estimated award date is June 15, 1998. (0131)

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