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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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>> | 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)    |
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