EBSCOHOST - Academic Search Complete

The Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, intends to award a sole source procurement with ESBSCO Information Services for the Academic Search Complete resource database. The contractor will provide acomprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,900 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,800 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,900 journals and a total of more than 12,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.. Academic Search Complete offers critical information to the Bureau of Prisons from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals. Academic Search Complete is updated daily and available via EBSCOhost. Through extensive market research, the contracting officer has determined that EBSCO Information Services is the only source available to meet the requirements of this procurement. The statutory authority is 41 U.S.C. 253 (c)(1), Only One Responsible Source. The applicable NAICS code is 511120. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Any parties interested in this award should submit their response, with proof of ability to provide the service no later that October 21, 2010. Information received will normally be considered for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future