SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- NEW SCHOOL BLDG CONSTRUCTION DATA
- Notice Date
- 7/30/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Procurement and Property Management, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 1830, Washington, District of Columbia, 20212
- ZIP Code
- 20212
- Solicitation Number
- DOL07302013
- Archive Date
- 8/17/2013
- Point of Contact
- Joan Gantt, Phone: 2026916043, Lasondia Chaney, Phone: 202-691-6044
- E-Mail Address
-
gantt.joan@bls.gov, chaney.lasondia@bls.gov
(gantt.joan@bls.gov, chaney.lasondia@bls.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE The US Department of Labor, Bureau Of Labor Statistics intends to award a sole source contract to R.S. Means Company, LLC, 700 Long Water Drive, suite 102, Norwell, MA, 02364-3008. The statutory authority permitting the acquisition of this requirement by other than full and open competition is 41 USC 254©(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, Only one responsible Source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirement. The Bureau of Labor Statistics intends to purchase new school construction data. R.S. Means Company, LLC. provides quarterly construction cost updates for new school building models. These updates provide the BLS and Producer Price Index (PPI) with current information on the costs and quantities of labor, material, and equipment inputs required to construct the specified school building models. The data are needed to ensure the continued calculation and publication of several monthly Producer Price Indexes measuring inflation in the nonresidential building construction sector. RS Means is uniquely qualified to provide updates to building models developed in the Uniformat cost estimation style. Other contractors of sufficient size and scope follow alternative cost estimate styles to its client that are not compatible with Uniformat style of the school building models for which BLS requires updates. RS Means has been providing data in the Uniformat style to its clients for over 30 years and has achieved marketplace acceptance. Its products are used widely by firms in the building construction industries. The products are deemed reliable and have earned widespread application throughout the industry and across many governmental and non-governmental users. If the BLS does not receive the information by the specified time, the PPI will have to cease publication of critical inflation measurement data. These data are important, objective, and unique measures of nonresidential building construction price inflation which are used by numerous public and private-sector customers. A vital data user, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which uses the PPI information as a price deflator for Gross Domestic Product (GDP), will be forced to find a substitute for the defunct PPI data series. BLS has searched extensively for alternative data sources to meet its needs via the World Wide Web, discussions with industry trade associations, academic researcher, and past public notices. These searches have not identified a vable laternative to the selected cantractor for providing the necessary data at the best value to the BLS. This is a sole source notice published for informational purposes only and not a request for proposals. Therefore, no solicitation documents exist for this requirement. However, all responsible parties interested in responding to this notice are invited to submit a capability statement including costs by 12:00pm EST by August 2, 2013 that provides sufficient details for consideration by the Government, via e-mail transmittal to gantt.joan@bls.gov. The determination not to compete the contract based on the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All questions or comments regarding this notice shall be addressed in writing Joan Gantt, Contract Specialist at gantt.joan@bls.gov.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOL/BLS/WashingtonDC/DOL07302013/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: THE BUREUA OF LABOR STATISTICS, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, 20212, United States
- Zip Code: 20212
- Zip Code: 20212
- Record
- SN03131282-W 20130801/130730235531-8545a82358cf972662cda595ec3a54bc (fbodaily.com)
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