Special NoticePosted Aug 7, 2026·Responses due Aug 14, 2026

Notice of Intent to Sole Source Copyright Licensing Services for the Library of the Marine Corps

Navy and Marine Corps · COMMANDER

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
519290
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
None
Set-aside
No Set aside used
PSC
Not stated
Place
VA, USA
Contact
Leticia Thomas (Leticia.m.thomas.civ@usmc.mil)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

This notice has no solicitation number, so earlier and later notices cannot be tied to it.

Early notice
  • Aug 7, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Oct 18, 2026 to May 19, 2027, middle of the range Jan 7, 2027.
Measured from 3964 past early notices at Dept of the Navy that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 7, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

The Library of the Marine Corps (LoMC) requires an Annual Copyright License Agreement for Higher Education. This service will provide collective licensing services of copyrighted materials for 2,432 academic users. This service will be used to grant Marine Corps University (MCU) non-exclusive rights for its students, faculty, and staff to use copyrighted materials for curriculum development and delivery in an academic environment. Uses will include reading assignments, course packs, resident and remote classroom instruction, and within AI systems.

Who won similar work

5 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Navy and Marine Corps), same NAICS 519290.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
Allium US Holding LLC2$10.1MSep 29, 2026
COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER, INC.2$56KAug 21, 2026
CLARIVATE ANALYTICS (US) LLC · $CLVT1$516KJun 30, 2025

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 3 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 1 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 1 insider buys and 1 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.