In accordance with The FAA Acquisition Management System (AMS), Section 3.2.2.4, Single Source, the purpose of this announcement is to inform industry of the basis for the FAA's decision to enter into a contract on a single source basis with Allium US Holding LLC (Accuris) for an engineering and constructions industry standards subscription. The contract is for a base year. The FAA Air Traffic Organization (ATO) Technical Operations Services (TOS) in AJW has a requirement for a subscription for online access to the latest industry standards for engineering and construction for all FAA personnel. In order to meet FAA mission requirements, it is necessary for the FAA to have online access to the latest industry standards for use in design and construction of FAA facilities, and installation of FAA electronic equipment. At a minimum, the FAA requires the capability to view and download standards from the following organizations: FAA Standards and Orders National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) American Society for Quality (ASQ) International Code Council (ICC) 2009 Architectural/Engineering/Construction Collection Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) American National Standards Institute (ANSI) In order for the FAA to ensure compliance with Military and Federal policies and other requirements as stated above, the ATO-AJW Engineering Services Group requires a product which can meet the following minimum requirements: A. Provide a bibliographic records search – The ability to search existing industry standards and specifications, whether or not the documents are part of a FAA paid access subscription. For any documents not part of the FAA paid access subscription, the product must provide the capability for the user to purchase these additional documents. • Online search capability and indexing of at least 90% of the industry standards development organizations (estimated to be over 450 such organizations). • Online search capability and indexing of over 350,000 military and federal standardization documents. • Keyword searches made using words found in the document titles and abstracts. • Document number searches using the full document number, or part of a number. • The name, address, and contact numbers for all originating organizations will be included. Organizations can be identified by either their acronym or full name. • Document summaries (bibliographic records) will provide full document titles including revision, supplement, addenda, errata indication, and cross referencing to superseded material, document number, number of document pages, publication date, indication of ANSI approval, DoD adoption, whether the document is new or has been revised since the previous update, abstracts (where available), and any additional information available. • Provide priority document lists that can be generated by the user for quick document access and automatic update notification. B. Provide a paid-access subscription – A subset of most often used industry standards and specifications of which the FAA has paid for full access to and allows qualified users to: • Use the same bibliographic records search as stated in section A. • Open the full text of the document online from the search results. • Download a copy of the document to the user’s local hard drive. • Print the document from the online version or the local hard drive copy. • All document files are printable at a minimum of 300 d.p.i. (dots per inch) resolution. These images can be accessed using Adobe Acrobat Reader through a standard Internet browser. Adobe’s Page handling capabilities when viewing will include: • The ability to enlarge (zoom), multiple times if required, any portion of the page. • The ability to turn a page through 360 degrees in 90-degree increments. • The ability to print an enlarged portion of a page, single page, range of pages, or the entire document to paper. • The printed page will include the name of the copyrighting organization. The index will use the search and retrieval software to facilitate access to document summaries or document pages via a number of different search paths including: • Document Number • Keywords from document titles and abstracts • Organization name or acronym • ANSI Approved documents • DOD Adopted documents • Documents recently new or revised • Federal Supply Class • Document Type (Military Drawings, NATO documents, etc.) C. Provide a custom collection of industry standards and specifications – In order for the FAA to effectively use available funding, the vendor must provide the ability to create custom standard collections based on individual standards from various standards developing organizations and not wholesale access to entire sets of standards from any specific standards developing organization. Accuris is the only provider capable of meeting these requirements. Accuris is the only known source that can meet the full range of the FAA’s engineering and construction standards access requirements, to include the provision of a searchable database with indexing power and image handling capabilities. Any questions or comments about this announcement may be directed to the Contracting Officer, Timothy Thannisch, at
[email protected] by 5:00 PM ET on October 22, 2024.