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D -- ACCESS TO BUSINESS BEST PRACTICES DATABASE SOL N00104-99-Q-Q327 DUE 081399 POC Greg Mohn, (717) 605-3786 E-MAIL: Gregory L Mohn, Gregory_L_Mohn@icpmech.navy.mil. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items in accordance with FAR 12.6. A written solicitation will not be issued. REQUIREMENT Principal Award Factor -- The Assistant Secretary of the Navy's (ASN/RDA) Acquisition Reform Office (ARO), Washington DC has a requirement for 12 months access to a Business and Industry Best Practices Database to be used by Program Managers as a library of business's successful methods and processes. The database must encompass a wide range of business related topics and maintain substantial and current information on these topics. Most topics must be accompanied by written expert analysis, discussion of the benefits and the risks associated with proposed business actions, and examples of successful use and application of business practices. The ARO office shall be the primary licensee of the database which will authorize approximately 10 persons named as principal users. These users shall act as a conduit to the database for the wider Naval community. Information will be used by the Government for individual projects, in the classroom, and for group projects. The license must allow information to be accessed at a minimum by the principal users, who must be able to duplicate and/ or paraphrase database information for distribution, either verbally or in writing, to larger audiences. Award will be based on the Greatest Value to the Government considering price and the technical factors provided in this notice. Award will be based principally upon your description of the scope and usefulness of the proposed database solicited above. Secondary award evaluation factors, each of equal importance, are listed below. Price becomes more important as the range of offerors technical scores narrow. Secondary Factors -- Access to the complete database must be immediate and continuing (24/7) for the designated users throughout the licensed period (12mos). Initial award of a purchase order is anticipated by mid August 1999. -- Describe the limitations placed upon the primary and secondary users by a resulting license. -- Identify the training included with the database for primary users. -- Identify the technical support included to meet any user questions or technical problems with the systems used to access the database. -- Provide an illustration of what information will be found by a search of the database for the term "Activity Based Costing". Count the number of hits in the database, provide a synopsis of each hit, and any known authorship of each hit. Offerors having an interest in this procurement must submit a quote to the attention of Greg Mohn using the following: FAX (717)605-4600, or email Gregory_L_Mohn@icpmech.navy.mil, or by mail Attn: Code M0272.9 Offers must quote a FFP as CLIN 0001___________________________for the 12 month access to the database and any and all supporting services and supplies. FAR clauses 52.212-1 and 52.212-4 apply to this procurement. Posted 08/03/99 (W-SN362423). (0215)

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