In accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b), the National Science Foundation (NSF) intends to award a simplified acquisition, sole source purchase order with Digital Science/ÜberResearch for a one-year license subscription of "Dimensions for Funders."   

Digital Science/ÜberResearch is the only source that can provide the services for the following reasons:

•1.      Uniqueness: Dimensions for Funders by the Digital Science/ÜberResearch is the only one product out on the market that offers integrated databases of research grants, publications, citations, and patents that cover a broad landscape from both national and international major research resources. This unique database coupled with on-site customer training will enable ENG to perform holistic and cutting edge research and analyses.

•2.      Comprehensive: Dimensions for Funders by the Digital Science/ÜberResearch has a wide range of use cases for ENG, including:

•·        Researching Proposals-Novelty, Duplication, Trends, and Relevance - with its shared database of grant awards and Natural Language Processing ("NLP") tools we can view a global landscape of related research to a submitted proposal.

•·        Reviewer Identification and Matching - leveraging over 3 million researcher profiles with publications and awarded grants, Dimensions identifies relevant Reviewers and presents conflicts of interest indicators.

•·        Portfolio Analysis and Categorization - Dimensions allows everything from the quick analysis of topics and peers to portfolio reporting on highly-defined categories.

 

Item	Supplies/Services	Quantity	Unit	Unit Price	Total Price
0001	Digital Science/ÜberResearch Software Subscription	1	USD	$98,401.00	$98,401.00

 
Potential offerors that believe they can fulfill the NSF's need should submit a capabilities statement to ponit of contact listed in this announcement.