SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- Politico Pro Subscription
- Notice Date
- 4/28/2021 6:29:23 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- SS-OFR-21-066
- Response Due
- 5/13/2021 6:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 05/28/2021
- Point of Contact
- Cali Wesson, Erwin DeGraef
- E-Mail Address
-
purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov, purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov
(purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov, purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov)
- Description
- INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE Politico Pro Subscription #SS-OFR-21-066 The Bureau of Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service), on behalf of The Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), intends to contract with Politico, LLC, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, 8th Floor, Arlington, VA 22209, on a sole source basis for Politico Pro Subscriptions. There is no competitive vendor or regulatory agency that provides this unique journalism subscription. The proposed Contractor provides hyper-specific policy news service that offers its subscriber�s exclusive insider coverage on news stories, morning newsletters, afternoon briefings, and customized breaking news alerts on Hill votes, committee meetings, newly introduced legislation, and financial services regulations. The Office of Financial Research (OFR) requires a subscription to news covering broad financial stability issues as well as current events and commentaries for regulatory work at the Financial Stability Oversight Council, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and National Credit Union Association.� Services must include coverage on news stories, morning newsletters, afternoon briefings, and customized breaking news alerts on Hill votes, committee meetings, newly introduced legislation, and financial services regulations as well as allow users to track laws and regulations of interest. An equivalent journalism subscription must distribute content through its website, television, physical newspapers, radio, and podcasts. Its coverage in Washington, D.C., includes the U.S. Congress, lobbying, media and the presidency. An equivalent must also deliver Congressional Research Service reports and maintains a congressional directory and a calendar of public policy events. Under the current Politico subscription, each user is provided with fourteen (14) subscription credits they can attribute to any of Pro�s 22 policy areas to fully customize the news alerts receive they receive based on their individual needs and policy focus as well as full access to legislative regulatory tracking tools: the team�s subscription also includes full access to Pro�s federal and state legislative tracking tool along with a newly built out federal and state regulatory trackers for monitoring the federal and state rule making process. Users also have access to a homepage dashboard that optimizes workflow by displaying team members� customized news stories, bill and regulatory tracking, and calendar all in one place and functionality that allows users to collaborate with one another by organizing and compiling content across the platform in one workflow tool, streamlining group work and further consolidating aspects of your team�s work that can be completed within the platform. The OFR uses the proposed contractor�s brand name product for the continuing mission to deliver an annual assessment of the state of the United States financial system, as required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Any proposed equivalent subscription must match and/or exceed the specifications listed in this notice. The period of performance for the purchase order is anticipated to be a twelve (12) month base period with four (4) options periods of twelve (12) months each. The total estimated value of this purchase order will exceed the simplified acquisition threshold. NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE. �A request for more information, or a copy of the solicitation, will not be considered an affirmative response to this Special Notice. Telephone responses or inquiries to this Special Notice will not be accepted. Fiscal Service will consider written responses received no later than 05/13/2021. Responses must be submitted electronically to purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov, Politico /Attn: CW � ED. Responses must include sufficient evidence that clearly shows your company is capable of providing the content described in this notice. Responses received will be evaluated; however, a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. If no written response is received by the aforementioned deadline that clearly demonstrates an ability to meet all requirements and is more advantageous to the Government, Fiscal Service will make award on a sole source basis to Politico, LLC. Qualified Contractors must provide the following: 1. The name and location of your company, contact information, and identify your business size (Large Business, Small Business, Disadvantaged Business, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, HUBZone, etc.). �Please ensure contact information includes the name of the point of contact, email address, and telephone number, should the Government have questions regarding individual responses. 2. DUNS Number. 3. Specific details of the product(s) that your company offers in regards to this notice. 4. Whether your content is available through a Government contract vehicle or Open Market. 5. A brief capabilities statement (not to exceed 5 pages) that includes a description of your company's standard line of business, as well as a list of customers to whom your company currently provides the specific required content. Additionally, a sample size of the data may be requested if it is determined to be an equal to the above provided information.� Failure to provide any of the requested items above will constitute a non-responsive submission and will not be considered. The following file extensions are not allowable and application materials/data submitted with these extensions cannot be considered: .bat, .cmd, .com, .exe, .pif, .rar, .scr, .vbs, .hta, .cpl, and .zip files. Microsoft Office and Adobe compatible documents are acceptable. No other information regarding this Special Notice will be provided at this time. The Bureau of the Fiscal Service may consider information �received no later than 12:00 p.m. EST on Thursday, May 13, 2021, submitted to purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov, Politico / Attn: CW - ED.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, DC, USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN05985357-F 20210430/210428230115 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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