SOURCES SOUGHT
T -- Editorial Service - Statement of Work
- Notice Date
- 9/23/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 561410
— Document Preparation Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Acquisition Management (AQM), 250 E Street, SW, Mail Stop 4-13, Washington, District of Columbia, 20219
- ZIP Code
- 20219
- Solicitation Number
- 092313Editorial
- Archive Date
- 10/15/2013
- Point of Contact
- Thomas Fout, Phone: 2026495595
- E-Mail Address
-
thomas.fout@OCC.treas.gov
(thomas.fout@OCC.treas.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Capabilities Questionnaire Statement of Work, Editorial Service SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) charters, regulates, and supervises about 1,900 national banks and federal savings associations and 47 federal branches of foreign banks in the United States, accounting for more than two-thirds of the total assets of all U.S. commercial banks (as of December 2012). Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the OCC has four district offices plus an office in London to supervise the international activities of the institutions we supervise. The OCC was established in 1863 as a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The OCC is headed by the Comptroller, who is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate for a five-year term. The Comptroller is also a director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and NeighborWorks America. The OCC's nationwide staff of examiners conducts on-site reviews of national banks and federal savings associations (collectively, banks) and provides sustained supervision of bank operations. The agency issues rules, legal interpretations, and corporate decisions concerning banking, bank investments, bank community development activities, and other aspects of bank operations. The OCC's mission is to ensure that national banks and federal savings associations operate in a safe and sound manner, provide fair access to financial services, treat customers fairly, and comply with applicable laws and regulations. The OCC is currently seeking a contractor to perform non-personal editorial service support. This includes writing, rewriting, copy editing, substantive editing, proofreading, formatting, and editorial production (collectively, editing) for such publications as: • Handbooks, issuances, manuals, legal and accounting publications, and other supervisory guidance. • Reports. • Newsletters. • Brochures. • Special presentations. The editorial service will require the contractor to edit content in accordance with the OCC Style Manual, Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, and the Chicago Manual of Style. In order to facilitate this endeavor, the OCC is seeking industry sources with demonstrated capabilities to provide editorial services to achieve the requirements outlined in the attached DRAFT Statement of Work (SOW). The DRAFT SOW in its current form provides respondents the minimum requirements of the OCC. It is the OCC's intent to use the information gathered in response to this Sources Sought Notice to assist the Government in its market research to determine whether to, in accordance with applicable law, set- aside, restrict competition, or solicit offers from all responsible sources. Furthermore, the responses obtained will enable the OCC to refine the strategy for the development of this requirement in order to structure a program that will mitigate cost, schedule, and performance risks. To assist the OCC in identifying potential sources that possess the specific expertise, capabilities and experience to meet the requirements of the SOW, the attached Capabilities Questionnaire has been developed. Respondents to this notice shall provide a written capabilities statement, which includes and addresses the questions outlined in the questionnaire and any relevant information that specifically addresses the company's capabilities to provide the services outlined. Capabilities Statements shall be no longer than 10 pages (not including a price estimate). It is particularly important for the government to understand the cost model for an entity to provide the support as described in this Notice. Therefore, respondents are encouraged to provide a rough order of magnitude (ROM) for the requirements described. The Government believes industry feedback is important, and is receptive to any and all ideas from industry, which would result in sound requirements, realizing cost savings, or highlighting potential technical, or contractual problem areas associated with this effort. The Government reserves the right to reject in whole or in part, any industry input as a result of this Notice. Failure to provide sufficient documentation may result in the Government being unable to adequately assess your capabilities. When submitting responses, vendors shall clearly identify any information it considers sensitive or proprietary. All information received in response to this Notice that is marked ‘proprietary' will be handled accordingly. Responses to this Notice will not be returned. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated and incurred by submitting a response. Eligibility to participate in a future acquisition is not predicated on a response to this Notice. Please submit responses via email to Thomas Fout, Contract Specialist, at thomas.fout@occ.treas.gov no later than 10:00 A.M. EST on September 30, 2013. DISCLAIMER AND IMPORTANT NOTES: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in this response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD, United States
- Record
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