FLICC/FEDLINK
FY98 Budget & Fee Questionnaire

The FLICC Budget and Finance Working Group would like your input into FEDLINK's FY98 budget and fee planning. Your answers to this brief questionnaire will help us project whether there are likely to be any significant changes in the way members use the FEDLINK program. With this information, we will be better able to project FEDLINK's costs and revenues and to set the transfer pay and direct pay fees fairly.

Please respond by April 30. The FY98 budget and fee proposal will be presented at the semi-annual membership meeting in May and will be mailed to members for formal comment in June. Thank you for your help.

FEDLINK ID:
Name:
Phone:
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1. Do you expect your funding for FEDLINK services to change significantly in FY98?
No, it will stay about the same
Yes, it will increase.
Yes, it will decrease.
2. Do you plan to buy new services through FEDLINK in FY98?
No.
Yes, new transfer pay: Books
CD-ROM
Document Delivery
OCLC

 Online
Serials
Technical Processing
Other
Yes, new direct pay: Books
CD-ROM
Document Delivery		 Online
Serials
Other
3. In FY98, do you plan to have your agency do its own contracting, or to use a government credit card, instead of contracting through FEDLINK?
No.
Yes, for: Books
CD-ROM
Document Delivery
OCLC		 Online
Serials
Technical Processing
Other
4. Do you plan to change from transfer pay to direct pay or vice versa for any services in FY98?
No.
Yes, from transfer pay
      to direct pay for:		 Books
CD-ROM
Document Delivery

 Online
Serials
Yes, from direct pay
      to transfer pay for:		 Books
CD-ROM
Document Delivery		 Online
Serials
5. It may be necessary to raise the direct pay fees for FY98.   If you currently have direct pay services, what would you do under the following scenarios?
a. If the base fee per direct pay service were raised from $850 to as much as $1,350, I would:
Stay a direct pay customer (no change).
Switch to transfer pay.
Have my contracts office do the procurement in-house.
b. If the fee for direct pay services over the $100,000 simplified acquisition threshold were raised from 0.5% to as much as 0.75%, I would:
Stay a direct pay customer (no change).
Switch to transfer pay.
Have my contracts office do the procurement in-house.
6. Do you have any comments? Suggestions for FEDLINK services?
  
FLICC/FEDLINK, ATTN: FY98 Budget
Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20540-4930
voice: (202) 707-4800; fax: (202) 707-4818; tty: (202) 707-4998; email: flicc@loc.gov
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