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R -- EXTENSION TO LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS, INC.(BIOSIS) DATA FOR TOXLINE COMPONENT POC Sharon Cummings, Contract Specialist 301/496-6546 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract specialist via, sharon_cummings@nlm.nih.gov. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to conduct negotiations on a sole-source basis under the authority cited in 41 USC 253(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-(1) with Biological Abstracts, Inc. (BIOSIS) of Philadelphia, PA, for a six (6)-month extension of contract NO1-LM-7-3522 which provides a License Agreement and reimbursement of royalty charges covering the use of data from BIOSIS databases including BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts in its online information retrieval services, TOXLINE and TOXLINE65. Also included is the assignment of Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Numbers to the BIOSIS citations used in these NLM files. 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 BIOSIS. The proposed project will provide the BIOSIS license agreement and CAS Registry Number assignment for six (6) additional months through December 2000. This notice of intent is not a Request for Proposals (RFP) nor is an RFP available. Substantial duplication of costs and unacceptable delays make competition for this six-month extension unfeasible. See Numbered Notes 22 and 26. Posted 05/16/00 (W-SN455309). (0137)

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