SOLICITATION NOTICE
76 -- Congressional information services
- Notice Date
- 9/19/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Mobility Command, 6th Contracting Squadron, 2606 Brown Pelican Ave., MacDill AFB, FL, 33621-5000, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 33621-5000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-F2VVCC7214A002
- Response Due
- 9/24/2007
- Archive Date
- 10/9/2007
- Point of Contact
- Russell Beasley, Contract Specialist , Phone 813-828-4729, - Alyson Bartol, Contract Specialist, Phone 813-828-0486,
- E-Mail Address
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russell.beasley-02@macdill.af.mil, alyson.bartol@macdill.af.mil
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a commercial supply and/or service 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; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will NOT be issued. This is a Request For Quote (RFQ) and the solicitation number is F2VVCC7214A001. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-16 effective 22 March 2007, DFAR DCN 20070426, and AFFAR AFAC 20070314. United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), 7115 South Boundary Blvd, Tampa, FL 33621, requires access to a computer system that allows tracking of U.S. Congress bills and committee meetings and additional items described below from September 26, 2007 through September 25, 2008. Interested parties may e-mail russell.beasley-02@macdill.af.mil or fax 813-828-5111, Russell Beasley, not later than Thursday, 24 September, 2007; 10:00 a.m. EST. The North American Industry Classification System code (NAICS) is 519190, All Other Information Services. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) is 7375, Information Retrieval Services. A firm fixed price contract will be awarded. All interested parties must bid on all items. Award will be made to the quotation which offers the best value to the government. The Government reserves the right to make no award at all. DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT -Forward-looking articles on all-important activities schedule for that day plus a comprehensive wrap-up of all the previous day?s news. -Clear, unbiased perspective of how legislation is shaped, who is shaping it and how the process could affect our interests. Full text available and searchable before the magazine goes to press, with archives back to 1983. The ability to browse stories from the current issue by topic, via online subject index. Related links alongside the text of stories shall include sidebar stories and links to create custom alerts based on bill numbers or subject areas within the story, view profiles of members mentioned in the story, create a related bills chart, and access related documents selected vendor editors. -Vendor shall contact every committee every day and provide the most detailed listings on all scheduled floor, committee and subcommittee actions. Including dates, times, locations, agendas, contact information and witnesses. Service shall allow searching of schedules by subcommittee detailing witness information, committee/subcommittee and sends updates and additions via e-mail automatically through alert function. Including archives back to 1987. -Transcriptions. Vendor shall provide verbatim transcripts of speeches, press conferences, and news events with particular emphasis on the President and the Executive Branch, Congress, the State Department, Pentagon, and Department of Justice. Transcripts shall include interviews of key government officials on various TV talk shows, including NBC's "Today Show," CBS's "Early Show," ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "American Morning," CNN's "Live Today", ABC's "This Week," and more. -Tracking of Bills. Detailed, comprehensive chronologies of actions on bills with links to additional information in the service database. Full chronology shall include descriptions of all amendments in committee and during floor debate, as well as identification of related bills, and citations to members? statements on bills in the Congressional Record, indicating the tenor of their remarks. Links shall be available for Congressional Record references, yea-nay vote tallies, coverage of committee markups, hearings, and related bills. -Bill Reports. The ability to choose the information on each bill from a list of major milestones to a detailed legislative history. Use a personal list of bills to quickly create a bill status report. -Allow subscribers to keep track of appropriations bills through a status chart providing links to related stories, floor and committee amendments, votes, committee and conference reports and related/companion bills. Updated in order to keep the user informed in the latest developments. -In-depth analysis of bills, including overview, background, highlights and outlook. Users may request specific analysis of a bill to be done within 24 hours. -Full Text of all bill versions. Each bill should be keyword searchable and also include links to a PDF version of the bill from the US Government Printing Office (GPO) Web Site. This feature should be updated one to two days after the bill?s introduction. Users shall be able to search for bills using personalized lists, or by words or phrases, bill numbers, member names, committees, chamber, stage in the legislation process, bill version date or date the bill is introduced. -Text comparison. Shall allow users to compare bills back to the 104th Congress, including by section. -Vendor shall provide same day news coverage on all open markups and some that are closed including summaries of amendments, roll-call vote breakdowns and voice vote outcomes. Comprehensive committee votes coverage shall be available available within 24 hours of the markup. This feature should also include listings of past hearing and meetings, with witness lists included. Markup coverage provided back to 1989 (101st Congress). -Vendor shall provide access to committee reports to allow users to narrow search by word, committee, chamber, publication date simultaneously; with archives back to the 101st Congress. -Vendor shall provide a method for users to request that hearings be covered via on-line request form, with coverage available 24-48 hours after hearing; and all transcripts. -Vendor shall provide a searchable database of the Congressional record. It shall be searchable by word, member, bill number, chamber, page number, specific categories and publication date; all data can be run against alerts. Data archives back to 101th Congress. -Vendor shall provide reports showing what?s due up on the House floor, including likely amendments by day and by week. Vendor shall provide summary sheets detailing the provisions of major bills and key points of debate. This shall include conference reports, detailing, in advance of House floor debate, the content of Conference Committee reports on bills and floor summaries, recapping what happened during House floor debate. -Vendor shall provide summary of scheduled and potential Senate action, providing essential details about legislation and leadership decisions. -Vendor shall provide high-level summaries of each day?s Congressional Record with links to the full text. -Vendor shall provide a tool that allows users to see how pending legislation would affect existing laws and the U.S. Code. This must enable users to search by bill number, code cite, statute-at-large number, word in act name or word in public law text. Also display how laws have been amended over time or would be amended by pending legislation. System must e-mail alerts to notify users when bills are introduced that would amend existing laws in their interest areas. -Vendor shall provide the complete text of the U.S. Code, in the most current version available. -Vendor shall provide the complete text of public laws, dating to the First Congress, in 1789. -Vendor shall provide access to the full text of CRS reports, draft bills, GAO and CBO documents, Statements of Administration Policy, and other key government documents. Users also can receive daily notification of all documents gathered during the previous 24 hours and request that CQ staff obtain specific documents that are not yet in the Top Docs database. -Vendor shall provide access to the Federal Register. This is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules and notices of federal agencies as well as executive orders and other presidential documents from 1997 to present. -Vendor shall provide access to in-depth political biographies of all members of Congress, with vote studies on each member's voting record. -Vendor shall provide information on every vote on the House and Senate floors. This shall include summary of the vote, the outcome of the vote, the vote tally by party, a list of the members and how they voted, and the president?s position, if known. -Vendor shall provide floor debate video including comprehensive, searchable database. Users shall be able to search by member name, congressional session and keywords to access video clips of member?s floor statements. -Vendor shall provide an alert system where a user can create a custom alert on any search criteria, across any combination of sources to which the user subscribes to. DELIVERY ADDRESS: Items are to be procured on behalf of the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), MacDill AFB (Tampa), FL 33621. PROVISIONS/CLAUSES: The following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), provisions and clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated by reference (provisions and clauses may be obtained via the internet: http://farsite.hill.af.mil, http://www.arnet.gov/far/, or http://safaq.hq.af.mil/contracting): FAR 52.204-7, Central Contractor Registration; FAR 52.211-6, Brand Name or Equal; FAR 52.212-1, Instruction to Offerors-Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions; FAR 52.225-13 -- Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; FAR 52.247-34, F.O.B. Destination; 52.203-3 Gratuties. The following FAR clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated in full text: FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representation and Certifications-Commercial Items (Offeror must submit a completed copy of this prevision with its proposal for the proposal to be considered. See https://orca.bpn.gov/ for online submittal); FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes Or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, within FAR 52.212-5, the following clauses apply: FAR 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government; FAR 52.222-3, Convict Labor, FAR 52.222-19, Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies, FAR 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities, FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity, FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era, FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; FAR 52.225-1, Buy American Act?Supplies, FAR 52.225-13, FAR 52.232-33 Payment By Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration; FAR 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Reference. The following Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated by reference: DFARS 252-204-7004 (Alt I), Required Central Contractor Registration. The following DFARS clauses apply to this solicitation and are incorporated in full text: DFARS 252.212-7000, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items; DFARS 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial Items, within DFARS 252.212-7001, the following clauses apply: DFARS 252.225-7001, Buy American Act and Balance of Payments Program, DFARS 252.225-7012, Preference for Certain Domestic Commodities, DFARS 252.225-7021, Trade Agreements, DFARS 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests, DFARS 252.247-7047-7023, Transportation of Supplies by Sea, DFARS 252.247-7024, Notification of Transportation of Supplies by Sea. The following Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (AFFARS) clause applies and is incorporated in full text: AFFARS 5352.201-9101, Ombudsman: (a) An ombudsman has been appointed to hear and facilitate the resolution of concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and others for this acquisition. When requested, the ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The existence of the ombudsman does not affect the authority of the program manager, contracting officer, or source selection official. Further, the ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals, the source selection process, or the adjudication or protests or formal contract disputes. The ombudsman may refer the party to another official who can resolve the concern. (b) Before consulting with an ombudsman, interested parties must first address their concerns, issues, disagreements, and/or recommendations to the contracting officer for resolution. Consulting an ombudsman does not alter or postpone the timelines for any other processes (e.g., agency level bid protests, GAO bid protests, requests for debriefings, employee-employer actions, contests of OMB Circular A-76 competition performance decisions). (c) If resolution cannot be made by the contracting officer, concerned parties may contact the Center/MAJCOM ombudsman Mr. Michael R. Jackson, HQ AMC/A7K, 507 Symington Drive, Scott AFB, IL 62225-5022, (618) 229-0267, fax (618) 256-668, email: Michael.Jackson@scott.af.mil. Concerns, issues, disagreement, and recommendations that cannot be resolved at the MAJCOM/DRU level, may be brought by the concerned party for further consideration to the Air Force ombudsman, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (ADAS) (Contracting), SAF/ACQ, facsimile number (703) 588-1067. (d) The ombudsman has no authority to render a decision that binds the agency. (e) Do not contact the ombudsman to request copies of the solicitation, verify offer due date, or clarify technical requirements. Such inquiries shall be directed to the Contracting Officer. (End of clause). Also your quote must list your DUNS number, CAGE code, and Federal TIN with Company name, POC and phone number. If you need to obtain or renew a DUNS number or CAGE code, please visit www.ccr.gov. Lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror ineligible for award. DEADLINE: Offers are due on 24 September 2007 by 10:00 A.M. EST. Submit offers or any questions to the attention of Russell Beasley via email or fax. Email: russell.beasley-02@macdill.af.mil. Fax: 813-828-5111. Alternate POC is Alyson Bartol at Alyson.Bartol@macdill.af.mil. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (19-SEP-2007); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 7115 S. Boundry Blvd. MacDill AFB, FL
- Zip Code: 33621
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 33621
- Record
- SN01412012-F 20070921/070920093027 (fbodaily.com)
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