Dear Marcia:
Are you interested in this information from a contractor's perspective?
Our company manages two air force libraries and our directors have some
thoughts on the process. If you are interested, I will have both directors
comment.
pat
At 04:16 PM 3/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Many thanks to all of you who responded to this survey! For those of you
>who haven't, or meant to but forgot, would you take a few minutes now to
>respond and let us know what you think?
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>Thanks. -- Marcia Talley
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>On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Marcia D Talley wrote:
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>> Subject: Integrated Library System Maintenance
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>> At the request of several Fedlink member librarians, the FLICC Information
>> Technology Working Group has established a subgroup on Integrated Library
>> System Maintenance. We are looking at this issue because several
>> librarians have reported major headaches working with their local or
>> regional contracting offices when the time came to renew ILS vendor
>> maintenance contracts. These problems include those associated with a
>> high turnover in contracting officers, having to write comprehensive
>> statements of work, librarians being required to re-justify continually
>> what is essentially a sole-source procurement and/or being required to do
>> it on an annual basis.
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>> Therefore, the Information Technology Working Group is interested in
>> gathering information on Integrated Library System (ILS) maintenance
>> contracts currently being offered to members by various ILS vendors. This
>> information will help the Working Group decide whether to ask Fedlink to
>> investigate the possibility of providing "transfer pay" ILS maintenance
>> contracts to members, beginning in FY99 or FY00, similar to the book and
>> serials contracts currently in place.
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>> To help us, we would appreciate your answers to the following
>> questions. Please respond directly to me: [log in to unmask], not
>> to the list.
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>> 1. Would you like Fedlink to offer transfer pay ILS contract maintenance
>> services? Yes____ No ____
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>> 2. If Fedlink were to offer such services, what services should vendors
>> provide?
>> Ongoing software maintenance ____
>> Software upgrades ____
>> Hardware maintenance ____
>> Software training ____
>> Consulting services ____
>> Other ______________________________________________________
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>> 3. If ILS contract maintenance services were available from Fedlink
>> through transfer pay, would you contract for such services through
>> Fedlink? Yes ____ No ____
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>> 4. If Yes, at what projected dollar level? $_______________
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>> 5. If No, why not?
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>> 6. What ILS do you use? ___________________
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>> 7. Other comments:
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>> | Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy |
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