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Sole-Source Justification for My Talking Books (RealSAM) Dialog Licenses

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS › CONTRACTS SERVICES

Response deadlineSep 30, 2026 5:00 PM EDT

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Response deadline: Sep 30, 2026 5:00 PM EDT
Posted: Sep 24, 2026 12:00 AM EDT
Notice type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
Set-aside: No Set aside used
NAICS: 541511 — Custom Computer Programming Services
PSC: 9999 — Miscellaneous Items
Place of performance: Washington, District of Columbia
Current status: Closed

Notice details

Official status: Closed
Normalized group: Bid opportunity
Notice ID: b157b435b869474ab93f3a21d53fd6b8
Solicitation number: 2027-NLS-0066

Description

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Amendment 0002 - The purpose of this amendment is to: 1. Provide Attachment J4 - 030ADV26R0047 QA_ 20260924 (pp. 13), which contains answers to the offeror's questions 2. Remove Section C.6. See Section C. 3. Remove LC52.227-1. See Section I. 4. Add LC52.227-3. See Section I. 5. Update LC52.227-14 to the base form of the clause. See Section I. 6. Provide Attachment J2 - My Talking Books (RealSAM) Components v2, which has been updated Apart from these changes, no other changes are made. ----------------------------------------- Amendment 0001 - The purpose of this amendment is to: 1. Extend the deadline for proposal submission from 5:00pm ET on 09/18/2026 to 5:00pm ET on 09/30/2026. 2. Remove LC52.239-2 SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE. Please see Section H for further details. 3. Update 52.216-18 ORDERING by inserting dates. Please see Section I for further details. Apart from these changes, no other changes are made. ----------------------------------------- This is a solicitation forRealSAM Dialog licenses and services required to operate the system in production for the My Talking Book Smart Speaker project, while meeting all IT information-system security requirements as required by the Library of Congress. This is a sole source. A signed J&A was previously posted for this solicitation and referenced herein. This is not open for competition. All other related and pertinant document are attached herein.

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Contacts

James Robinson

Primary

jarobinson@loc.gov

Nikolas Wellstead

Secondary

nwellstead@loc.gov

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