# Elsevier Knovel e-Journal Subscription

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/n0018925q0423

- Solicitation number: N0018925Q0423
- Notice type: Combined synopsis and solicitation
- Status: Awarded to Elsevier Inc.
- Department: Department of the Navy
- Agency: Department of the Navy
- Contracting office: NAVSUP FLT Log CTR Norfolk (N00189)
- NAICS: 513210 Software Publishers
- Product or service code: 7A21 Business Application off-the-shelf software delivered by perpetual license, which also encompasses enterprise level software enabling mission capability and business operational support.
- Place of performance: Annapolis, Maryland
- County: Anne Arundel County (FIPS 24003). https://abierto.us/counties/anne-arundel-county-md-24003
- City: Annapolis. https://abierto.us/cities/annapolis-md-2401600
- First posted: August 1, 2025
- Last posted: August 6, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/65c4e83de2c24a738b236a5346a3678c/view

## Description

The Contracting Department, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Norfolk, VA, 23511-3392, intends to solicit and award a commercial firm-fixed-price, sole source purchase order for the procurement of e-Journal Subscription Services for the United States Naval Academy (USNA), under FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures.

The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source, Elsevier, Inc. The authority for use of other than full and open competition is FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

In order to sustain Library performance, support and advance the educational mission of the Academy, and provide the necessary resources to sustain faculty research agendas, the Nimitz Library must subscribe to key scholarly databases that provide engineering data and scholarly articles. These database subscriptions must provide the unique intellectual property necessary for the Academy’s specific educational and research needs. See the attached Description of Supplies for additional details. This procurement is to renew the current e-Journal Subscription services. Attachments are as follows:

Redacted Sole Source Justification Amendment N0018925Q0423-P0002 extends the solicitation from 05 August 2025 - 12 August 2025.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Elsevier Inc. (UEI S9UYLMMXE6X8)
- Contract: N0018925P0531, purchase order
- Obligated: $53,833.49
- Competition: Not Competed, 1 offers received
- Link: solicitation number N0018925Q0423 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office N00189 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N0018925P0531_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- August 1, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due August 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT. Notice 32e6485de9ac4e25acd4e933049064ed. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/32e6485de9ac4e25acd4e933049064ed/view
- August 6, 2025: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due August 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT. Notice 65c4e83de2c24a738b236a5346a3678c. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/65c4e83de2c24a738b236a5346a3678c/view

## Points of contact

- Trumeka King, trumeka.c.king.civ@us.navy.mil

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