BPA-Books and Journals (printed medical and research materials)

IMPORTANT REMINDER ON SUBMITTING QUOTES:

All offerors shall register in the Electronic Contract Proposal System https://ecps.nih.gov/  to upload their quotes.  Allow sufficient time for uploading documents to the system.  eCPS will not accept quotes past the deadline regardless of where you are in the uploading process.  Email proposals will not be accepted.

Full Description of Requirement Attached

Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Program Category: Books and Journals (printed medical
and research materials).
The Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) creates 
NIH-wide ordering mechanisms for the delegated/ simplified acquisition community via the 
establishment of BPAs. BPA Calls, purchase orders, or the purchase card are used to place orders 
for anticipated repetitive needs for supplies and services at a pre-negotiated rate.
A blanket purchase agreement is not a contract, but a simplified method of filling anticipated 
repetitive needs for supplies or services by establishing “charge accounts” within the qualified 
sources of supply (FAR 13.03-1). The BPAs have a 12-month ordering period and are reviewed for 
possible renewal each year.
The BPA Program under the Division of Acquisition Policy and Services (DSAPS) at the NIH invites 
you to submit quotations in response to this combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items 
prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 and combined with FAR 13 Simplified 
Acquisition Procedures, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This 
announcement constitutes the only solicitation for quotes.

The solicitation number is 75N98024A-DSAPS-BPA and this requirement is issued as a Request for 
Quotations (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are
those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2023-05 published August 8, 2023.
 

The BPA Program is seeking to establish multiple, no more than 20 and up to 75% small business, 
NIH-wide BPAs under FAR 13 with vendors that can research and source domestic and/or foreign 
country biomedical literature in the form of monographs, monographic series (numbered and 
unnumbered) in print copy to all the institutes and centers at the NIH. The biomedical literature 
to be acquired is published from all regions of the world, and in various languages, by 
multinational, commercial, Governmental, and non-commercial organizations.
The world's largest biomedical library, the National Library of Medicine's at NIH is a BPA Program 
customer whose primary mission, as mandated by Congress, is to acquire and provide biomedical and 
health care literature and information - all formats and languages - to the public. The public is 
defined as the full range of users and potential users of the NLM, NIH, and Department of Health 
and Human Services (HHS) resources and services including researchers and scientists, library and 
information science (LIS) professionals, clinicians, patients, students, the educational community, 
and the public at large to meet its mandate to supply literary material related to medicine to the 
public.
Note: If an Offeror can source biomedical and health care literature and information - all formats 
and languages - from publishers in foreign countries, please provide a list of those publishers 
with your response to this solicitation. For long lists, please provide the top ten
foreign publishers.