NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) AND NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE.  The Department of Energy (DOE) intends to issue a Firm Fixed Price award to a single source under the authority of FAR 13.106 Soliciting Competition, Evaluation of Quotations or Offers, Award and Documentation.  DOE intends to award this requirement as a sole source to the Springer Nature.  Springer Nature 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 Springer Nature 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 2026 calendar year.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 513120 - Periodical Publishers 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 January 6, 2026 by 5:00 p.m. EST.  Responses to this posting must be in writing and submitted to barnettn@osti.gov.  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.

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: Natalie Barnett 

Phone: (865) 241-3526 

EMAIL: barnettn@osti.gov 

The Springer Nature subscription includes the following journals:

1. Springer Journals Continuing Access
2. Nature Biotechnology
3. Nature Chemical Biology
4. Nature Chemistry
5. Nature Climate Change
6. Nature Energy
7. Nature Geoscience
8. Nature Materials
9. Nature Methods
10. Nature Nanotechnology
11. Nature Photonics
12. Nature Physics
13. Nature US Edition
14. Scientific American
15. Nature Plants
16. Nature Microbiology
17. Nature.com Complete