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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 FBO #1031
SOLICITATION NOTICE

B -- Historical Securities Rebate Data

Notice Date

9/20/2004
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

523999 — Miscellaneous Financial Investment Activities
 

Contracting Office

Securities and Exchange Commission, Procurement and Contracts Branch, Operations Center, 6432 General Green Way, MS 0-20, Alexandria, VA, 22312-2413
 

ZIP Code

22312-2413
 

Solicitation Number

SECHQ1-04-Q-0139
 

Response Due

9/24/2004
 

Archive Date

10/9/2004
 

Description

This is a notice of Intent to award a Sole Source contract for service under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 to Quadraserve. The scope of work includes an Securities and Exchange Commission (?SEC?) requirement for access to historical rebate rate data and current rate data that provide price transparency to the stock loan industry. Price transparency shall enable SEC?s analysts to determine whether lending agents are lending mutual fund securities at a fair and competitive price. The SEC requires an electronic real-time price feed to all domestic and international stock loan transactions, originally obtained from several sources that are major participants in the stock loan industry. These sources shall include broker dealers, insurance companies, mutual funds, bank agent lenders, third party agent lenders and hedge funds. SEC requires a one-year subscription to a service that shall provide historical rebate rates on all domestic and international securities, as well as real time access to current rebate rate data provided throughout the trading day. Historical rebate rates data shall be available back to April 2002. The data shall be available via FTP on a daily basis. The services are being procured under FAR Part 13. The above named vendor is believed to be the only source for this service. This notice of intent is NOT a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for competitive quotes. Interested contractors may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing by fax or e-mail to Debra Chapman no later than 9:00 AM on Friday, September 24, 2004. The contact information is as follows: FAX: (202) 942-4994; EMAIL: chapmand@sec.gov. Capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination not to compete this proposed procurement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 540 th Street, NW, Washington, DC

Zip Code: 20549

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00677860-W 20040922/040920235637 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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

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