D--Notice of Intent to Sole Source Award to Serial Solutions

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center intends to sole source award to Serial Solutions access to a proprietary searchable database of unique scientific literature delivered thru a web based interface. NCTC Conservation Library and the FWS Literature Search Service requires a federated search tool so that users can search all databases from one interface. The following are the functions required by this interface: Clustering of results XML/Z39.50 connections De-duping of results Full-text filtering Results handling, which shows article title, journal, holding dates, and source Provides seamless integration of database results with licensed full text content. Supports Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES); Search results provide direct links to full-text (where available) so users quickly get to content. Can narrow the search to only include full-text; Build Boolean queries and limit searches to specific metadata fields like author, title, and abstract across all databases; Automatically de-duplicates on the fly.