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? > >Thanks. -- Marcia Talley > > >On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Marcia D Talley wrote: > >> >> Subject: Integrated Library System Maintenance >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 1. Would you like Fedlink to offer transfer pay ILS contract maintenance >> services? Yes____ No ____ >> >> 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 ______________________________________________________ >> ____________________________________________________________ >> >> 3. If ILS contract maintenance services were available from Fedlink >> through transfer pay, would you contract for such services through >> Fedlink? Yes ____ No ____ >> >> 4. If Yes, at what projected dollar level? $_______________ >> >> 5. If No, why not? >> >> 6. What ILS do you use? ___________________ >> >> 7. Other comments: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + >> | Marcia D. Talley, Systems Librarian | >> | Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy | >> | 589 McNair Rd. | >> | Annapolis, MD 21402-5029 | >> | 410-293-6905 (v); 410-293-3853 (f) | >> | [log in to unmask] | >> + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + >> >> >> >> >> >> > >