USACE, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) intends to issue a source award to Springer Science + Business Media, LLC., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013-1522 for access to the Springer eBooks Collections. Springer is the sole publisher and licensor of these titles. The Government intends to procure from only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. Interested parties shall submit their capabilities and qualifications or proposals to provide the titles in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 15 days from the date of this notice. Such capabilities and qualifications will be evaluated solely for determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed acquisition on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. No RFQ/RFP will be issued based upon this Notice of Intent. Interested parties may submit any information for consideration by the Government to
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