Roundup: Ten Recently U.S Government Awarded Contracts for Information Products and Services
Here’s a roundup of 10 contracts for information products and services to U.S. Government organizations including the U.S. Military. All of these announcements were posted in the past 7 weeks and is far from comprehensive.
In the most recent complete fiscal year—FY 2014—federal spending on information commodities was $548.7 million, one of the highest annual totals in the 36-year period from FY 1979 through FY 2014.
Source: Federal Government Strategic Sourcing Of Information Products And Services: A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress Under an Agreement with the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK), Library of Congress (December 2014)
Ten Recently Awarded U.S. Government Contracts for Information Products and Services
To learn more about these contracts check the FedBizOpps.gov database which is also the source for the links provided below.
1. United States Air Force Award to Elsevier for Elsevier Science Direct and Freedom Subscription
Amount: $150,082.55
2. U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation to CQ For CQ/Roll Call
Amount: $19,860.00
3. Air Force Research Lab to Nature Publishing Group For NPG Journals
Amount: $80,264
4. Air Force Institute of Technology Library to Basch Subscriptions For Annual 2015 Subscription Renewal
Amount: $867,794.28
5. Air Force Institute of Technology Library to IEEE For IEEE Online Subscription
Amount: $158,695
6. Department of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency to Ithaka Harbors For JSTOR Subscription
Amount: $14,250
7. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Bulletin Intelligence For News Monitoring/Retrieval and Social Media Services
Amount: $944,525.96
8. Air Force Research Lab to Wiley For Wiley Reference Library
Amount: $118,642
9. United States Geological Survey (USGS) to Environment & Energy Publishing For Daily Electronic News Subscription
Amount: $16,860
10. Air Force Research Lab to Elsevier for Elsevier Engineering Village Subscription
Amount: $20,1877
Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Awards, Elsevier, Government Libraries, Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.