D -- Electronic Access to the Leadership Library Database

This is a Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source contract to Leadership Directories, Inc. located at 104 5th Ave., 3rd Floor, New York, NY, 10011 in the amount of $54,476.36 (base year) and a total of approximately $255,538 for four option years under the authority of FAR 6.302-1.The Internet search platform for the Leadership Library is unique. The database is not available on this platform from any other known publisher. No other source, such as electronic resource providers, may deliver the contents of the databases without acquiring access from the publisher. The above publisher is the only source determined capable of supplying the national Agriculture Library?s (NAL) requirements for electronic access via the internet for all USDA users to the Leadership Library. The Government requires a database that is updated daily, which contains unique personnel contact information of the institutional leadership of the United States. The requirement will be used by NAL, USDA locations, employees worldwide, contractors, cooperators and volunteers performing work on behalf of the USDA and are considered as authorized premises and users of the databases. The publisher, Leadership Directories, Inc., will make the database accessible twenty-four (24) hours per day via the Internet. Authorized users will be granted access to the databases through the IP recognition authentication process without any impediments, with rights to use content during the term of subscription.