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THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) AND NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE. The U.S. Department of Energy?s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) intends to issue a firm-fixed 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, Institute of Physics (IOP.) This requirement is for the renewal of an online subscription providing access to journals published by IOP. The subscription period is December 1, 2019 ? November 30, 2020. DOE intends to award this requirement as a sole source to IOP Publishing with a one-year base period and three one-year option periods. The Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science (SC) has a requirement for subscription renewal of existing approved/required journals and access to the IOPscience Extra Package. Based on market research, only IOP subscriptions allows access to the IOP Historic Archives 1874-1994 journals as well as the IOPscience Extra journals published by IOP. Access is restricted to the Office of Science. DOE is provided with a direct link to the website which is listed on the OSTI.gov website under the pulldown tab labeled research tools via the SCE Journals link button. This for the Office of Science and is not publically accessible. The IOPscience Extra Package include the following 121 journals: 1. 2D Materials 2. Acta Physica Sinica (Overseas Edition) 3. Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 4. Applied Physics Express 5. The Astronomical Journal 6. The Astrophysical Journal 7. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 8. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 9. Biofabrication 10. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 11. Biomedical Materials 12. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express 13. British Journal of Applied Physics 14. Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics 15. Chinese Physics 16. Chinese Physics B 17. Chinese Physics C 18. Chinese Physics Letters 19. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20. Clinical Physics and Physiological Measurement 21. Communications in Theoretical Physics 22. Computational Science & Discovery 23. Electrochemical and Solid State Letters 24. ECS Electrochemistry Letters 25. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology 26. ECS Proceedings Volumes 27. ECS Solid State letters 28. ECS Transactions 29. EPL (Europhysics Letters) 30. European Journal of Physics 31. Flexible and Printed Electronics 32. Fluid Dynamics Research 33. Inverse Problems 34. Izvestiya: Mathematics 35. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 36. Journal of Breath Research 37. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 38. Journal of the Electrochemical Society 39. Journal of High Energy Physics 40. Journal of Instrumentation 41. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 42. Journal of Neural Engineering 43. Journal of Nuclear Energy. Part C, Plasma Physics, Accelerators, Thermonuclear Research 44. Journal of Optics 45. Journal of Optics 46. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 47. Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 48. Journal of Physics A: General Physics 49. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 50. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 51. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear and General 52. Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics 53. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 54. Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 55. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 56. Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments 57. Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics 58. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics 59. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 60. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 61. Journal of Radiological Protection 62. Journal of Scientific Instruments 63. Journal of Semiconductors 64. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 65. Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection 66. Laser Physics 67. Laser Physics Letters 68. Materials Research Express 69. Mathematics of the USSR-Izvestiya 70. Mathematics of the USSR-Sbornik 71. Measurement Science and Technology 72. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence 73. Metrologia 74. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 75. Multifunctional Materials 76. Nano Futures 77. Nanotechnology 78. Nonlinearity 79. Nouvelle Revue d'Optique 80. Nouvelle Revue d'Optique Applique 81. Nuclear Fusion 82. Physica Scripta 83. Physical Biology 84. Physics Bulletin 85. Physics Education 86. Physics in Medicine and Biology 87. Physics in Technology 88. Physics-Uspekhi 89. Physics World 90. Physiological Measurement 91. Plasma Physics 92. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 93. Plasma Science and Technology 94. Plasma Sources Science and Technology 95. Proceedings of the Physical Society 96. Proceedings of the Physical Society 97. Proceedings of the Physical Society of London 98. Proceedings of the Physical Society. Section A 99. Proceedings of the Physical Society. Section B 100. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 101. Pure and Applied Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part A 102. Quantum Electronics 103. Quantum Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B 104. Quantum Science and Technology 105. Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B 106. Reports on Progress in Physics 107. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 108. Review of Physics in Technology 109. Russian Academy of Sciences. Izvestiya Mathematics 110. Russian Academy of Sciences. Sbornik Mathematics 111. Russian Chemical Reviews 112. Russian Mathematical Surveys 113. Sbornik: Mathematics 114. Semiconductor Science and Technology 115. Smart Materials and Structures 116. Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics 117. Soviet Physics Uspekhi 118. Superconductor Science and Technology 119. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 120. Transactions of the Optical Society 121. Translational Materials Research The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 519130 - Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals, with the size standard of 1,000 employees. This notice of intent is not a request for proposals or quotes. Any vendor who believes it is capable of meeting the requirement as stated herein may submit a response, which will be considered only if received by September 16, 2019 by 5:00 p.m. EST. Responses to this posting must be in writing and submitted to [email protected] by 5:00 p.m. local time. A determination not to compete the proposed order based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. 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