This amendment to combined synopsis/solicitation QS-LOC-LSC20060013 is issued to permit the incorporation of the Statement of Work and Proposal Requirements for preparation of offers. Potential offerors may submit one comprehensive set of questions/requests for clarification not later than 26 July 2006; with the exception of questions involving proprietary/trade secret information, the Library will provide one comprehensive summary of all questions received and our responses on or about 28 July 2006 (depending on the number and complexity of the queries submitted). Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation may be transmitted on or before the closing date either electronically (in Rich Text or Microsoft Word/Excel format, pre-scanned for virus contamination) to cbar@loc.gov, or by facsimile, to (202) 707-8611. SYNOPSIS: The Serial and Government Publications Division (SER) of the Library of Congress houses approximately 55,000 serial titles, primarily in Roman alphabet languages. A major preservation function of the Division is to prepare serial issues for binding on a regular basis. After the serials are assembled into bindable units, the bindable unit is barcoded, and the Library of Congress integrated library system (LC-ILS) is updated to uniquely identify the new serial volume and to indicate its status and future location in the Library (inventory control). This contract will be for binding preparation of approximately 3,000 serial titles and serials inventory control of approximately 25,000-27,000 bindable serial units. It will be a firm fixed unit price indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for the specified services. The contract will be awarded to the offeror whose combination of technical and price proposals represents the best value to the government within the available Library of Congress resources. Work will be performed in the work areas of the Serial and Government Publications Division, Madison Building, Library of Congress. It will require a permanent, full-time on-site project manager and three to four technicians. Binding preparation consists of retrieving loose issues from the SER serials stacks, assembling and collating them into proper order, preparing binding instructions for the binder on LARS binding preparation software, quality reviewing work, and delivering work to the Binding and Collections Care Division of the Library for shipment to the contract binder. It further requires distinguishing binding styles, methods of leaf attachment, and types of cover cloth used by the Library of Congress, as well as understanding standard instructions that must be given the bindery based on pieces in hand. Serials inventory control involves barcoding bindable units, creating or editing item records in the LC-ILS, creating or updating holdings records in the LC-ILS, and suppressing reference to the loose issues being bound in the Library's online public access catalog. Item and holdings records are constructed according to national and Library of Congress standards. Inventory work is done after a batch of bindable units is prepared and before it leaves SER. The work requires working in cataloging, acquisitions, and OPAC modules of the LC-ILS, which is a Voyager product. The Statement of Work will be posted as a separate supplement to this combined solicitation/synopsis.