SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Major News Stories Reviews - NEWSCLIPS
- Notice Date
- 7/3/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, OCPO, Administration Support, Office of Admin Support, NO, 451 7th Street S.W., Washington, DC, 20410, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- R-OPC-23172
- Response Due
- 7/25/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number is R-OPC-23172 and is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). This solicitation is a 100% small business set-aside. The NAICS Code is 519190 and the small business size standard is $6,500,000.00. Quotations from vendors that are not small business concerns under NAICS Code 519190 will not be evaluated. This is a proposed Firm Fixed-Price (FFP) contract for a period of performance from September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2008. The contract line items are as follows: 001 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? September - 2007 $__________ 002 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? October - 2007 $__________ 003 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? November - 2007 $__________ 004 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? December - 2007 $__________ 005 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? January - 2008 $__________ 006 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? February - 2008 $__________ 007 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? March - 2008 $__________ 008 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? April - 2008 $__________ 009 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) ? May - 2008 $__________ 0010 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) - June - 2008 $__________ 0011 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) - July - 2008 $__________ 0012 Major News Stories Review (NEWSCLIPS) - August - 2008 $__________ Technical Capability Narrative and Past Performance Data: Vendors must submit a written technical capability narrative that concisely describes their ability to completely satisfy all elements of the statement of work. Additionally, vendors must provide evidence of past performance experience for similar or exact work as described in the statement of work including points of contacts and telephone numbers for these clients (Federal government clients are preferred for past performance references). Statement of Work: To provide the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and key staff members with a comprehensive review of the day?s major news stories from sources including national and local television, national and local newspapers, news wires, Internet publications, magazines, legal journals, radio, and specialty press. As the nation?s housing authority, it is critical that the HUD Secretary remain aware of the current issues and events relevant to the public and private housing sectors. Specific requirements: (1) Provide a news summary which summarizes the day?s news while eliminating redundancy in providing a master edit of the news articles; (2) Provide a clips package which gives the full length version of news articles outlined in the news summary; (3) The news summary and clips should cover the following topics: the Administration and Congress; Housing and Urban Development; HUD; Homelessness; Section 8; Affordable Housing; Predatory Lending; Sub Prime Lending; Housing; Homeownership; Urban Renewal; Faith Based Initiative; Housing Authority; Public Housing; Low income Housing; Fair Housing; Housing vouchers; FHA; Ginnie Mae; Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act (RESPA); Community Planning and Development (CPD); Alphonso Jackson; Roy Bernardi; Home foreclosures and Housing starts. (4) Other items to be included are the day?s Washington schedule, including congressional hearings, special events and the headlines from major newspapers and television networks; (5) The summary will be organized by story and subject including a customized index divided by subject matter; At a minimum, the categories should be HUD News; Homeownership; Homelessness; PIH/FHA; Affordable Housing; Fair Housing and National News. (6) The final product should contain the summary, clips, and the index and be in a printable format for unlimited distribution in hardcopy. HUD must retain the right to further make unlimited distribution of the final product electronically or in hardcopy for internal agency use only; (7) Must be sent electronically in Word format to a principal staff list each day, Monday to Friday, by 7:00 a.m. EST; (8) Must cover weekends and holidays. Monday?s product should contain the news for Saturday and Sunday; (9) A dedicated web page, maintained on an external site accessible to HUD people, will be part of the service to provide access to the day?s clips via the Internet and contain an archive covering the previous 30 days; and (10) Secured access to the web page shall be made available through IP protection and the contractor should provide for one or many discrete or contiguous blocks of IP addresses. [End of Statement of Work] FAR Subpart 12.602, streamlined evaluation of quotes: The Government anticipates the award of a commercial item contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible contractor whose quotation conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate all quotes: (i) past performance; (ii) technical capability of the quote offered to meet the Government requirement; (iii) price; and, (iv) contractor?s current status as a small business. The above evaluation factors are in descending order of importance. The provisions/clauses at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items (SEP 2006); 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (FEB 2007); 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (NOV 2006) apply to this action. The following HUD clauses also apply to this solicitation: 2452.237-70 Key Personnel; 2452.237-75 Access to HUD Facilities; 2452.237-77 Observance of Legal Holidays and Closure of HUD Facilities; 2452.239-71 Information Technology Virus Security; and, 2452.246-70 Inspection and Acceptance. QUOTATIONS: Quotations are due Wednesday July 25, 2007 by 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Submit your quotations in three (3) hard copies to the attention of Contract Specialist, Sandy Burton at the U.S. Department Of Housing & Urban Development, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, 451 7th St. SW, Washington, DC 20410. Any questions, please contact Sandy Burton via email at Sandra.S.Burton@hud.gov No hard copies will be mailed. The solicitation and any amendments, updates, questions and answers, and changes to the posted information will be available at the following websites: FEDBIZOPPS:http://www.fedbizopps.gov/, and the HUD Current Contracting Opportunities Website: http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpo/contract.cfm
- Place of Performance
- Address: U.S. Department Of Housing & Urban Development, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, 451 7th St. SW, Washington, DC 20410
- Zip Code: 20410
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20410
- Record
- SN01333721-W 20070705/070703220450 (fbodaily.com)
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