FEDLINK Services. FEDLINK also provides fiscal support to members of the cooperative. When establishing an interagency agreement (IAG) with LC to use FEDLINK services, the member agency may choose to transfer funds to LC to pay invoices for services ordered through the IAG. Under this “transfer pay” option, the contractor sends invoices to FEDLINK, where FEDLINK Fiscal Operations (FFO) staff examine them, pay the contractor electronically, and send the member a statement of account with copies of the paid contractor invoices. With transfer pay, the contractor only has to deal with one financial office and the member is relieved of the invoice processing workload. Alternately, members may choose a direct invoice/payment relationship with contractors. Terms for the transfer pay or direct pay options, information on delivery order/contracts and invoice procedures are described in Section G of this document.
FEDLINK Services. LC/FEDLINK contracts cover a broad range of commercial information services and products. These include subscriptions to online database retrieval services, gateway access services, membership in bibliographic utilities such as OCLC, subscriptions to periodicals, and the acquisition of books and other library materials. All types of libraries and other U.S. Federal offices use FEDLINK services: general and technical libraries, legal offices, training centers, public affairs offices, laboratories, researchers, and so on.
