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NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) AND NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE. Response Date: December 12, 2018 5:00 pm (EST) The Department of Energy (DOE) intends to issue a Firm Fixed Price award to a single source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(i)(ii), Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services will Satisfy Agency Requirements, Optical Society of America (OSA). DOE intends to award this requirement as a sole source to OSA with a base year and a one-year option period. OSA is the sole provider for access to the required online journals. The incumbent contractor shall provide the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science (SC) an online journal subscription for online access to the Optical Society of America Journals listed below. Subscription is by calendar year. Access is restricted to the Office of Science. DOE is provided with a direct link to the website which is listed on the OSTI.gov website under the pulldown tab labeled research tools via the SCeJournals link button. This for the Office of Science and is not publically accessible. Subscription period is for the 2019 calendar year with a one-year option period. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 519130 - Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals, with the size standard of 1,000 employees. This notice of intent is not a request for proposals or quotes. Any vendor who believes it is capable of meeting the DOE-OSTI?s requirement as stated herein may submit a response, which will be considered only if received by December 12, 2018 by 5:00 p.m. EST. Responses to this posting must be in writing and submitted to [email protected]. A determination not to compete the proposed order based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Please note that any prospective offeror must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov prior to award in accordance with FAR part 4.11. List of journal titles associated with the OSA subscription: ? Advances in Optics and Photonics ? Applied Optics ? Applied Spectroscopy ? Chinese Optics Letters ? Journal of Lightwave Technology ? Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy ? Journal of Optical Communications & Networking ? Journal of Optical Technology ? Journal of the Optical Society of America A ? Journal of the Optical Society of America B ? Optics and Photonics News ? Optics Letters ? OSA Continuum ? Biomedical Optics Express ? Current Optics and Photonics ? Optica ? Optical Materials Express ? Optics Express ? Photonics Research Contracting Office Address: US Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information P.O. Box 62 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Government Point of Contact: Tammy Payne Phone: (865) 576-0247 FAX: (865) 576-3589 EMAIL: [email protected]

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