NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE The Department of Energy (DOE) intends to issue a Firm Fixed Price award to a single source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(i)(ii), Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services will Satisfy Agency Requirements, Clarivate Analytics. The incumbent contractor shall provide a Web of Science bundle subscription access to the DOE?s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). This bundle provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, InCites, Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators, and Highly Cited Data research tools. The desired period of performance for the services described herein is anticipated to be from April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019 for one (1) one-year base period plus four (4) one-year option year periods. This is a Notice of Proposed Contract Action Synopsis. There is no solicitation available at this time. Requests for a solicitation will receive no response. This Proposed Contract Action is published to notify potential sources that the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information intends to award a sole source firm-fixed price contract to Clarivate Analytics for the Web of Science Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) subscription and InCites Journal Citation Reports, Essential Science Indicators and Highly Cited Data subscription. The Web of Science is a proprietary database that is owned and hosted exclusively by Clarivate Analytics. Web of Science is only sold directly from Clarivate Analytics LLC. There are no re-sellers and it is not available through any federal acquisition vehicle. Web of Science is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research. The Web of Science platform connects the Web of Science Core Collection to regional citation indexes, patent data, specialized subject indexes, and an index of research data sets, all in all totaling over 33,000 journals. The Web of Science Core Collection is the only resource that provides consistent controlled indexing for all authors, addresses, funding acknowledgements, and cited references, providing users with a complete view of the scholarly record. The proposed contract action is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 519130 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals. The Size Standard is 1,000 employees. The desired period of performance for the services described herein is anticipated to be from April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019 for one (1) one-year base period, plus four (4) one-year option year periods. The responses to this Notice of Intent will be used to confirm that this is a sole source requirement. This notice is not a Request for Proposals (RFP); it is a market research tool being utilized to determine the availability and adequacy of potential sources prior to awarding the contract. Any information submitted by respondents to this synopsis is strictly voluntary. The Government will not pay for any information that is submitted by respondents to this notice of proposed contract action. Contractors who believe they possess the expertise and experience shall submit a technical capabilities statement and proposal for the period of performance identified above, in writing to Tammy Payne electronically to:
[email protected]. Responses must be received no later than March 5 , 2018, 5:00 pm EST. All documentation shall become the property of the Government. Firms responding must indicate the following information: business size: small business or disadvantaged business, veteran owned small business or HUB Zone certified; the appropriate NAICS code, and DUNS #. This synopsis neither constitutes a Request for Proposal, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. This notice of intent should not be construed as commitment by the Government for any purpose other than market research. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. Please note that any prospective offeror must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov prior to award in accordance with FAR part 4.11. All technical capability statements should demonstrate how the following requirements can be accomplished: ? Must be able to provide cover to cover indexing, including full papers, editorials, and book reviews that allows searching by subject, keyword, cited reference, and author and author affiliation (including author address) searching capabilities back to the 1900?s. ? Must be able to provide access to the articles' cited references - the bibliographies or reference lists of the indexed articles (fully cited) ? Must provide citations that are compiled by hand, with quality control and consistent metadata and are publisher-independent. ? Must be able to provide an analysis of search results. ? Must have the ability to refine search results. ? Must include links to full text. ? Must offer alert services and the ability to save prior searches. ? Must be able to provide subscription access for all authorized employees via unlimited simultaneous internet access using IP authentication. ? Must be able to provide citation exporting options. ? Must be able to provide a visualization citation mapping tool that allows users to map citations by author, institution, country, subject, and more to visualize connections at a glance, discover wider relationships and to change map appearance to emphasize important relationships allowing the users to easily create a visual representation of citation relations, thus allowing the user to ?SEE? the full research picture. ? Must be able to provide data that can be used to prevent duplication of prior research, by identifying the body of work on a particular topic, and by tracking and assessing the subsequent impact the DOE's research has had on others by identifying who has cited the research. ? Must be able to provide author cited references for all full journal articles indexed from 1900-present. ? Must be able to use the dataset for performance metrics which will help to demonstrate the relevance, quality, performance, and efficiency of the DOE Research & Development's work. ? Must be able to provide metrics that can be used to estimate the scientific use of publications authored by DOE scientists and the Number of High Impact Papers. ? Must be able to provide distinctive author affiliation for all authors listed, ?organization-enhanced,? and address fields, with advanced search options for each, that are needed to identify DOE-affiliated authors. ? Must be able to provide an easy mechanism for reporting data errors and provide quick response time to correcting errors. ? Must be able to provide results with funding agency and grant number searching, with advanced Boolean searching capabilities. These all are necessary in order to identify DOE-funded publications. Data must be in formats consistent with DOE award numbers and with DOE-specified funding acknowledgements language. ? All Open Access articles must be identified at the individual article level. ? Must provide APIs that support between 30,000-120,000 calls per day, and 50 connection sessions every 5 minutes with 20 API calls per second. ? Must provide APIs via the POST HTTP request method that support query searches of at least 21KB of text, with option to expand. Contracting Office Address: US Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information P.O. Box 62 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Government Point of Contact: Tammy Payne Phone: (865) 576-0247 FAX: (865) 576-3589 EMAIL:
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