NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE 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 for the 2018 calendar year, 1/1/18-12/31/18. DOE intends to award this requirement as a sole source to IOP with a one (1) base year and two (2) 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. 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 required list of journals are as follows: 1. 2D Materials 2. Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 3. Applied Physics Express 4. Astrophysical Journal, The 5. Astrophysical Journal Letters, The 6. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, The 7. Biofabrication 8. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 9. Biomedical Materials 10. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics 11. Chinese Physics B 12. Chinese Physics C 13. Chinese Physics Letters 14. Classical and Quantum Gravity 15. Communications in Theoretical Physics 16. Computational Science and Discovery 17. Distributed Systems Engineering 18. Environmental Research Letters 19. EPL (Europhysics Letters) 20. European Journal of Physics 21. Fluid Dynamics Research 22. Inverse Problems 23. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 24. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 25. Izvestiya: Mathematics 26. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 27. Journal of Breath Research 28. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 29. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering 30. Journal of High Energy Physics 31. Journal of Instrumentation 32. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 33. Journal of Neural Engineering 34. Journal of Optics 35. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 36. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 37. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 38. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 39. Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics (see Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter) 40. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 41. Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instrument (see Measurement Science and Technology) 42. Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics (see Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter) 43. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 44. Journal of Radiological Protection 45. Journal of Semiconductors 46. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 47. Laser Physics 48. Laser Physics Letters 49. Materials Research Express 50. Measurement Science and Technology 51. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence 52. Metrologia 53. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 54. Nanotechnology 55. New Journal of Physics 56. Nonlinearity 57. Nuclear Fusion 58. Physica Scripta 59. Physical Biology 60. Physics Education 61. Physics in Medicine and Biology 62. Physics in Technology 63. Physics-Uspekhi 64. Physiological Measurement 65. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 66. Plasma Science and Technology 67. Plasma Sources Science and Technology 68. Proceedings of the Physical Society 69. Proceedings of the Physical Society of London 70. Proceedings of the Physical Society. Section A 71. Proceedings of the Physical Society. Section B 72. Quantum Electronics 73. Reports on Progress in Physics 74. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 75. Russian Chemical Reviews 76. Russian Mathematical Surveys 77. Sbornik: Mathematics 78. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 79. Semiconductor Science and Technology 80. Smart Materials and Structures 81. Superconductor Science and Technology 82. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 83. Transactions of the Optical Society 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 questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via e-mail to the point of contact or alternate point of contact. 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 November 21, 2017 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. 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. 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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