SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR JOINT VENTURE PARTNER

Notice Date

October 20, 2000

Contracting Office

National Institute of Standards & Technology, Acquisition & Assistance Div.,100 Bureau Drive Stop 3572, Bldg. 301, Rm B117, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3572

ZIP Code

20899-3572

E-Mail Address

Elaine Stober, Product Management and Marketing Specialist (estober@ntis.fedworld.gov)

Description

DESC: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service located at 5285 Port Royal Road, Room 1006, Springfield, VA 22161. REQUEST FOR JOINT VENTURE PARTNER. POC Nancy Collins, Director for Product Management. The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the Department of Commerce, seeks to enter into a joint venture with one or more partners to produce and distribute the Statistical Abstract 2000 and provide copies for the NTIS sales program. Under the terms of the joint venture: 1) NTIS will provide an electronic form of the printed version of the Statistical Abstract to the partner in order to print copies for sales to the public through the partner's distribution program and NTIS's distribution program. 2) The joint venture partner and NTIS will share in revenues that will be negotiated as part of a joint venture agreement. 3) It is expected that NTIS will work with the joint venture partner for successive editions of the Statistical Abstract. Response Requirements: 1) Please prepare a description of your company's capabilities and experience in producing, promoting, and selling business, educational, and/or scientific publications to national wholesale and retail distributors. 2) Please include the cost per copy for printing 1,800 cloth and 2,100 softcover editions of the Abstract. Please send your descriptions within 15 days of the date of this announcement to the attention of Nancy Collins. This is not a procurement. NTIS will enter into joint venture partnerships in accordance with the authority granted to NTIS in the National Technical Information Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 3704b) and in accordance with the guidelines published in the June 13, 1989 Federal Register. Joint ventures do not involve procurements using government funds. NTIS has for more than fifty years fulfilled its mission of acquiring and disseminating information obtained from both government and private sector sources worldwide in response to the needs of government agencies, authorized agents and subcontractors and the general public. As a self-supporting government agency, NTIS operates a clearinghouse for the information it collects, delivering bibliographic databases, and content selected by consumers in paper and electronic format, and also able to support the fulfillment needs of users for the delivery of historic or archived materials produced in print-on-demand paper, demand microform or CD-ROM, or via on-line electronic access. If you have any questions, please send them via an e-mail to estober@ntis.fedworld.gov, or by telephone at (703) 605-6526, FAX (703) 605-6742. EMAILADD: estober@ntis.fedworld.gov EMAILDESC: <A HREF="mailto:estober@ntis.fedworld.gov">Elaine Stober, Product Management and Marketing</A> Specialist

Web Link

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20001024/SPMSC001.HTM (W-294 SN5048C6)