SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Full Service News Clipping and Media Monitoring Support
- Notice Date
- 9/14/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- National Transportation Safety Board, National Transportation Safety Board, Acquisition Division, 490 L'Enfant Plaza East, SW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20594, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20594
- Solicitation Number
- NTSBQ110026
- Archive Date
- 10/4/2011
- Point of Contact
- BRYAN J. MOY, Phone: 202-314-6282, Christopher J. Blumberg, Phone: 202-314-6102
- E-Mail Address
-
bryan.moy@ntsb.gov, christopher.blumberg@ntsb.gov
(bryan.moy@ntsb.gov, christopher.blumberg@ntsb.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, AN INVITATION FOR BIDS, OR A REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS. FURTHER, IT DOES NOT REPRESENT A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY FOR COSTS INCURRED IN PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF DATA OR ANY OTHER COSTS INCURRED IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. This is a Sources Sought notice with the intent to award a sole source contract to Bulletin News LLC (Bulletin News) under the authority of FAR 6.302 based on Bulletin News' unique technical qualifications as the only known company that provides human review and analysis of news, and human-edited summary briefings rather than technology based solutions to provide news clipping and media monitoring support. Notice is provided as information to the marketplace, market research, and is an invitation for any other qualified companies to express their interest in and demonstrate their capability to provide services that perform the required work. BACKGROUND The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent Federal agency with the primary missions of investigating civil aviation accidents in the United States and significant accidents in the other modes of transportation -- railroad, highway, marine and pipeline -- and issuing safety recommendations aimed at preventing future accidents. The NTSB intends to issue a firm-fixed price seven (7) month sole-source contract to Bulletin News LLC. NTSB officials must start each day fully informed about important news printed and broadcast nationwide. This is best accomplished via an expert-edited briefing memo that weaves together only the most important elements of news stories printed and broadcast nationwide. The items must be culled from thousands of outlets daily and must be those that NTSB officials themselves would have identified as important. The NTSB has determined that only Bulletin News offers all of the following in combination as required: (1) use of human analysts to: (i) find and review articles and broadcasts from all major (and most smaller) daily newspapers, national television and cable news, most local television markets, newsweeklies, relevant magazines and journals, Internet sites, specialty press, etc.; (ii) apply its understanding of the NTSB's mission and interests; (iii) determine which aspects of each story, if any, are important to the various constituencies within the NTSB; (iv) edit out all information (not stories, but parts of stories) that is redundant or irrelevant; (v) for each topic in the briefing each day, weave the remaining (important) information together such that it reads like a single story rather than what it really is, subsets of myriad stories on the same topic; (vi) interweave news from all sources including print and television; and (vii) characterize the coverage such that the NTSB officials can quickly get a sense for how widely various story elements were run and also for the general tonality of the coverage; (3) a "national news" section suitable to the needs of NTSB officials who must be kept aware of important developments affecting the federal government broadly so they may interact with peers in the Agency and Congress; (4) links within the briefing to the original full-text versions when available on the original publishers' websites and to streaming video of important television as originally broadcast,(5) weekday delivery, except federal holidays, by 7:30 a.m. EST via (i) a secure NTSB -specific, vendor-hosted website, including Bulletin News's archive of the NTSB News Summary; (ii) email, including PDA-friendly format; (iii) emerging technologies such as Kindle and iPad; and (iv) all the while ensuring all content is fresh, with very low incidence of day-old news; (6) include a Washington Schedule section for the important events scheduled that day; (7) be available to any and all employees of the NTSB, exclusively for NTSB's internal use; and (8) be supported by exceptional customer service. Bulletin News: (i) assigns a dedicated account manager who is expert on the NTSB and its needs and is available to the NTSB 24/7; (ii) permits the NTSB to communicate with the editors preparing its service 24/7 so that its service can be customized quickly as necessary; and (iii) ensures quality by delivering copies of all written communication are delivered to the CEO of the company and to the Vice Presidents in charge of the account management and editorial functions. Bulletin News also offers the ability to have its editors score, using human judgment, the sentiment of various topics within stories and then process that data through formulas that include audience size, reputation and other factors to provide a sense for the overall tone of coverage over time. Bulletin News has demonstrated its ability to fulfill all of these requirements via its current, identical work for the White House and more than twenty federal Departments and Agencies, and also for numerous private-sector clients. The Government intends to acquire the service as a commercial item. Sources capable of fully satisfying the above requirements are invited to submit capability statements/expressions of interest providing the Government the necessary information to determine actual capability. At a minimum, this information, which must be prepared specifically in response to this notice should, must include: (1) identification of company or organization; (2) an assertion of existing, full capability to meet proposed requirements; (3) a sample of a similar service delivered to a similar client must be included in order to facilitate the NTSB's ability to judge the vendor's ability to fulfill the contract requirements. Interested organizations must demonstrate systematic capabilities, staffing, and management experience to deliver the complete service described above; (4) business/contracts/marketing office point(s) of contact; (5) notification of business size and /or special status; and (6) any additional information that may be useful to the successful procurement of the requirements, if solicited. These expressions of interest shall adhere to a no greater than 15-page submission limit plus web links and any specialized product descriptions. The statement of qualifications should include only information that clearly demonstrates the respondent's capabilities, expertise, and experience to perform the requirements described in this notice. General marketing material should not be included. The NTSB prefers that companies do not submit proprietary material. However, the Government recognizes that proprietary data may be a part of your submittal. If so, clearly mark such restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, which shall be considered by the NTSB. Parties must submit information within five (5) days of publication of this notice. NTSB will not return capability statements and the supporting documentation submitted in response to this notice. Telephone responses and inquiries will not be accepted. You may email questions regarding this notice to the issuing office to Bryan Moy via email at: bryan.moy@ntsb.gov.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Contractor's Facility, United States
- Record
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