Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Wiley Published E-books

Added:Apr 23, 2019 1:17 pm The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) located in Gaithersburg, MD intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to acquire access to the Wiley-published e-book collection. The number of researchers (users) is 1800 at the Gaithersburg campus and 300 at the Boulder campus.The Wiley series is proprietary to John Wiley & Sons. See details in Attachment I - Statement of Work (SOW).This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Subpart 13.106-1 (b) Soliciting from a single source, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements in conjunction with FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items. The FAR as supplemented by the Commerce Acquisition Regulation (CAR) will be used to evaluate the quote and award this requirement. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 511120,

Periodical Publishers, and has a size standard of 1000 employees.This is NOT a solicitation for quotations, quotation abstracts, or a request for competitive quotations and there is no solicitation package available; however, all responses received by the close date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract action based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. If no affirmative responses are received to determine whether a qualified source is more advantageous to the Government, the order will be issued to I John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The Contracting Officer for this requirement is Ms. Monica Brown. All questions or concerns relating to this notice shall be submitted by e-mail to monica.brown@nist.gov