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The Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) seeks to acquire access to the Digital Science online resource on a sole source basis to enhance its ability to track and analyze metrics associated with scientific research products. NCER funds cutting-edge extramural research aimed at improving the scientific understanding of national environmental issues and currently manages several funding programs, including STAR, P3, GRO Fellowships, and SBIR, which support this goal. The EPA aims to use Digital Science's unique capabilities to showcase the impact of its funded research, ultimately supporting increased usage and support for these scientific endeavors. Digital Science offers three distinct advantages over other vendors: it compiles metrics from both traditional scholarly sources (such as citations and impact factors) and non-traditional sources (including news outlets, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, downloads, and policy documents); it generates comprehensive metric scores for each research product along with an overall comparative score which NCER can customize for its scientific outputs; and it provides a commercial Application Program Interface (API) that can be embedded into NCER's existing databases for seamless data mining and metric analysis. The EPA requires contractors to demonstrate these capabilities without the need for manual comparison of scores and invites capable parties to submit a capability statement of up to ten pages by March 26, 2019, via FedConnect. The procurement does not currently include a Request for Quotations, and no phone inquiries will be accepted.

General Info

EPA NCER seeks sole-source Digital Science access to track, analyze, and showcase research impact metrics.

Agency

Environmental Protection Agency → Headquarters Acquisition Division (hqad)

NAICS

541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

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PostedMar 14

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyEnvironmental Protection Agency → Headquarters Acquisition Division (hqad)

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OfficeWASHINGTON, DC, 20460, USA

Organization / AgencyEnvironmental Protection Agency → Headquarters Acquisition Division (hqad)

Office AddressWASHINGTON, DC, 20460, USA

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Full Description

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning on purchasing access to the Digital Science online resource to track and collect metrics on a sole source basis. EPA¿s National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) supports funding for high-quality research by the nation¿s leading scientists and engineers that will improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues. NCER supports leading edge extramural research in exposure, effects, risk assessment and risk management by managing funding competitions through the agency¿s Science to Achieve Results (STAR), People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3), STAR and Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships, and Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) programs. The goal is to showcase impacts to help increase support for and usage of research. There are three unique characteristics offered by Digital Science that are not offered by any other vendor. First, Digital Science uses compiled metrics from traditional (citations, impact factors) and non-traditional sources (news outlets, twitter, Facebook, downloads and policy documents). Other services only collect data from non-traditional online sources. Second, this product generates metric scores for each research product and provides an overall score which can then be compared across products. This functionality allows NCER to create a customized altmetric score for each NCER scientific product. Third, Digital Science provides a commercial Application Program Interface (API) to embed into NCER¿s already developed databases. This will allow NCER to analyze and showcase the metrics for each scientific product. This programming language can be incorporated into programming language and databases that NCER is developing to showcase metrics on its research products. All contractors interested in this procurement must have an online research capability that provides a commercial API that can be embedded into NCER¿s already developed databases that is has the capability for NCER to mine the data. Additionally, a contractor's online resource must be able to aggravate the metric scores for each research product to provide an overall score which can then be compared across products. These scores help NCER management determine which research product is of most interest to the scientific community and the broader public. The overall score develop must not require manual comparison since that is time consuming and prone to error. The EPA is not issuing a Request for Quotations at this time. Any interested party believing it has the capability to meet the stated requirements must submit a capability statement that adequately demonstrates the ability to satisfy all of them. The capability statement shall consist of ten (10) pages or fewer and be submitted via FedConnect on or before March 26, 2019 at 2 pm EDT. No phone call will be accepted or responded to.