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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 01, 2003 FBO #0704
SOLICITATION NOTICE

99 -- Electronic Financial Information System

Notice Date

10/30/2003
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

Contracting Office

Securities and Exchange Commission, Procurement and Contracts Branch, Procurement and Contracts Branch, 6432 General Green Way, MS 0-20, Alexandria, VA, 22312
 

ZIP Code

22312
 

Solicitation Number

SECHQ1-04-Q-0002
 

Archive Date

11/5/2003
 

Point of Contact

Debra Chapman, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 942-4994, Fax (703) 914-9226, - Debra Chapman, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 942-4994, Fax (703) 914-9226,
 

E-Mail Address

chapmand@sec.gov, chapmand@sec.gov
 

Description

This solicitation is being issued as Intent to Award on a sole source basis to Bloomberg L.P., 499 Park Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY, 10022-1420 for the purchase of an electronic financial information system via T1 lines to Bloomberg dedicated terminals and through the Internet to SEC-owned portable computers in accordance with FAR Part 12, Commercial Acquisition Procedures, for 800,000.00. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires access to a interactive financial information system that includes a continuous data feed delivering real time and delayed current and historical, domestic and international information. The system shall include news, analytics, research, and pricing for the following market sectors: corporate, mortgage, money market, municipal, preferred, equity, commodities, indices, currencies, and derivatives. Information shall include company data, issue/issuer, and historical prices/yields from the date of the company?s inception to the present, along with ten years of fundamentals and earnings data. The service shall include an indexed business news archive from 1992 to present, along with an historical archive of leading economic indicators, including consumer price index, producer price index, and information related to inventories. The service shall include Exchange and External Information that provides access to leading news wire services for domestic and international news stories on business, commodities, and financial issues. The news wire service shall provide access to Bloomberg Business News and other leading news wire services. The news wire service shall provide the full text of stories and articles. The service shall provide access to domestic and international exchanges. The system shall provide Analytical and Financial Analysis Programs with the capability to access real-time and historical market data analytical programs. The system shall have adjustable (vertical and horizontal) display and analytical capabilities such as bar charts, point and figure charts, moving average charts, and multiple graphs displayed simultaneously. The service shall provide the SEC with market, financial, and transaction information. The service shall include real-time current and historical transaction data on debt instruments and related derivative products. Required data shall include the following: last-sale price, net-change, bid and size, ask and size, open, high, low, volume, and last-sale time. The service shall include the following: a) Yield analysis, duration risk factor, horizon analysis, yield equivalents and futures hedging. b) Interest rate swap analytics, U.S. Government securities yield curves and Dealer Prepayment Estimates. c) Indicators, including advances, declines, up volume, down volume, and ticks along with access to the full text of stories, business and financial information and access to information concerning holders of individual securities. d) Merrill Lynch bond information service. The information shall be received on dedicated terminals through an on-line, high speed electronic communication link to the service facilities, as required. The service personal computer portables shall have the capability to access the Internet to provide the financial information. The service shall include printer capability on SEC owned equipment. Interested parties are advised that no solicitation is available for this acquisition. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement or to submit a capability statement. The period of performance shall be for one year. Accordingly the SEC intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source, Bloomberg L.P.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 540 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC,

Zip Code: 20549

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00462429-W 20031101/031030213435 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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