ProQuest Subscription - CDC Library

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE Project Title: Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library - ProQuest Subscription The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (CSELS) hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source, firm fixed price contract to ProQuest, 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, P.O. Box 1346. This commercial contract is for a specialized, proprietary multidisciplinary database with over 20,000 full text scholarly journals, newspapers and books. ProQuest Central includes 30 databases like ProQuest ABI Inform, ProQuest Family Health, ProQuest Health and Medical Complete and ProQuest Sociology. The period of performance for this effort will be from date of contract award through 31 December 2016. The total estimated value of the procurement is $65,000.00. This sole source contracting action is conducted pursuant to the authority under 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 - only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. North American Classification System Code (NAICS) is 511120 with a standard business size of 500 employees. Due to the proprietary publication content and publishing rights, ProQuest is the only source with access and rights to provide these products. Responses to this notice must demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government, would not be cost or time prohibitive, and would not hinder the mission objective of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Stephen B. Thacker Library. The determination not to compete this proposed contract action is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Government will not be responsible for any costs incurred by responding to this notice. This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals; however, the Government will consider any responses from capable sources received within 15 days after date of publication of this notice. Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be directed to the Contract Specialist, Ms. Sherrie Blackmon, at contact@example.gov via e-mail only (no phone calls/voice mail messages regarding questions will not be accepted and will not receive a response). Please indicate in the subject of your email: Notice of Intent Question Submission - 2016-Q-64687