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General Information The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) annually prepares a report on federal agency technology transfer. Requirements The vendor shall produce annual metrics on ... General Information The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) annually prepares a report on federal agency technology transfer. Requirements The vendor shall produce annual metrics on the number of patents, publications, and citations, organized by Federal agency. Specifically, the following indicators are required: • Full and fractional counting of patents, both overall and by technological field of the patent. • Full and fractional counting of peer-reviewed publications, both overall and by field of science. The fields of science shall be determined following the choice of the classification of science retained for the study. • Full and fractional counting of references from patents to the peer-reviewed publications published by the federal agencies, both overall and by field of science in which the publications appear. The contractor’s data shall cover the fiscal year 2012 until the most recent year available. The analyses shall consider references from all patents from Elsevier’s Scopus database, including but not limited to patents filed by the Federal agencies included in the data pull. Publications data shall be pulled from Elsevier’s Scopus database. Patent data shall be pulled from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Publications shall be classified copying the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators report series. This means that the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) Taxonomy of Disciplines (TOD) classification shall be used. The annual deliverable shall contain all of the computed data. Contracting Office Address Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B121, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640 NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large, foreign, and small businesses. Small businesses are defined under the associated NAICS code for this effort, 541611, as those domestic sources having $16,500,000.00 in sales. Please include your company’s size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. Instructions to Responders: Interested parties that have the capabilities to meet the Government’s basic requirements are requested to email capabilities statement of no more than 5 pages double sided describing their abilities to robert.singman@nist.gov no later than the response date of May 28, 2020 at 12:00pm for this sources sought notice. The report should include relevant information to your capabilities including any requirements that cannot be met or is deemed close to but not meeting an identified requirement. Also, the following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: Name of company(ies), their addresses, and a point of contact for the company (name, phone number, fax number and email address) that provide the services for which specifications are provided. Indication if the company(ies) are small business and social economic category(ies). Indication of whether the services required are currently on one or more GSA Schedule (i.e. Multiple Award Schedules [MAS]) contracts and, if so, the GSA MAS contract number(s). Indication if the company(ies) can provide all, or some, of the services. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in developing its minimum specifications and finalizing its market research.