SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Online legal services for WestLaw.
- Notice Date
- 10/25/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- NBC - Acquisition Services Directorate 381 Elden Street, Suite 4000 Herndon VA 20170
- ZIP Code
- 20170
- Archive Date
- 10/25/2011
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- Description
- Solicitation Number: D11PX18796 Title: West Law subscriptions Agency Contact Information:Acquisition Services DirectorateNational Business CenterDepartment of the Interior381 Elden Street, Suite 4000Herndon, VA 20170 Place of Performance: Washington, DC and other locations. The Government intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, a firm-fixed-price (FFP) acquisition for West Law Subscriptions. This non-competitive action is being issued by the Acquisition Services Directorate under the authority of the Department of the Interior Franchise Fund on the behalf of the United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC)Description of Requirement: OSC require private sector goods and services to fill in existing requirement of West Law Subscriptions for the OSC geographical locations which includes Headquarters office, located at 1730 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 and three Regional Offices (located in Dallas, Detroit, Oakland, and Washington, D.C. (co-located with the Headquarters Office) The OSC is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency of approximately 110 full-time equivalent employees, established on January 1, 1979. The mission of the OSC is to safeguard the merit system in federal employment by protecting covered employees and application from prohibited personnel practices, especially reprisal for whistle-blowing. The agency also supports covered federal employees and applicants by providing a secure channel for disclosures by them of wrongdoing in government agencies; enforces and provides advice on Hatch Act restrictions on political activity by government employees; and enforces employment rights secured by USERRA for federal employees who serve and protect the country in the National Guard or Reserves. The OSC professional staff currently using on-line legal and other database services on a routine basis includes staff attorneys and legal counsel, as well as other administrative staff. West Law Subscription benefits are: "All federal case law from the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, and other more specialized courts, such as the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; "All federal statutory and regulatory materials, including legislative history, U.S. Code, U.S. Code Annotated (or equivalent annotated version of the U.S. Code), Public Laws, Code of Federal Regulations (current version - including regulation history and case annotation), and the Federal Register; "All federal and state agency administrative and other administrative materials (e.g. Board of Contract Appeals Decisions, Civilian Personnel Law Manual, Comptroller General Decisions, EEOC material, Federal Travel Regulations and Joint Federal Travel Regulations, OSC material, FSIP material, MSPB material etc.); "All state materials for all states, including but not limited to Supreme Court, Superior Court, Commonwealth Court, Common Pleas Court, Statutes, Codes (administrative regulations), Attorney General Opinions, Court Rules, Court Orders, and Local Court Rules; "Reported appellate decisions from all states; "Federal dockets (e.g., Court Links); "Citation Services for prior and subsequent history and all citing references; "Alert Services that monitors the status of our case or other authority and automatically sends updates at the frequency, and for the duration specified about information changes; "All court brief databases;"All secondary materials (e.g.,: American Jurisprudence; Pleading and Practice; Matthew Bender, CCH Labor and Employment; PA Transaction Guide, Rules of Evidence, Law Reviews, PA Jury Instructions, ALR, CJS, Moore's Federal Practice, Colliers, Chisholm, Restatement of the Law, Weinstein's Evidence, CCH, Mealeys) and all legal journals and periodicals, and law journals; "All legislative information, including but not limited to full text of bills, congressional/legislative history, bill tracking, hearing transcripts, committee reports, Congressional record, etc. This action is being processed in accordance with FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source, and solicited in accordance with FAR 13.5, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. West Law currently provides these types of subscriptions. No other organization is known to provide these types of subscriptions. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities regarding this requirement by submitting a capabilities statement by the date specified herein. The period of performance for this effort will be one year. The Government will consider all capabilities statements received by 12pm EST, Thursday, Novemeber 4, 2010. Please be advised that it is the offeror's responsibility to assure the Government receives your submission on or before the specified due date. Submissions shall be sent electronically to Shavonne King, at shavonne.king@aqd.nbc.gov This is NOT a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed action based upon responses to this announcement is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received is solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive acquisition. The Government reserves the right to issue a Request for Quote (RFQ) as a result of this announcement. Please be advised that this announcement may constitute the only notice that will be posted for this acquisition, based on the review of any responses to this notice.
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