Broadcasting Board of Governors, International Broadcasting Bureau, Office of Contracts (CON), 330 C Street, SW, Room 2500, Washington, DC 20237

B -- PROPRIETARY OFF-THE-SHELF AUDIENCE SURVEY DATA SOL CON-00-0077 DUE 090100 POC Contact Point/Contracting Officer: Gloria Sweetney; Voice: (202) 619-1623; Facsimile: (202) 205-1921. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, gjsweetn@IBB.GOV. The Broadcasting Board of Governors= International Broadcasting Bureau (BBG/IBB), Office of Contracts, Simplified Acquisitions Branch (CON/SA), intents to solicit, negotiate, and award a purchase order (contract) on a non-competitive basis and subject to the availability of funds, to JMA Marketing and Research Ltd, (JMA) for the purchase of off-the-shelf audience survey data. The audience data is propriety to JMA and is only available from them. The purchase order award will be made using Simplified Acquisitions Procedures (FAR Part 13). The statutory authority permitting other than full and open competition that is applicable to this procurement is FAR Subpart 6.302-1(a)(2), 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), which states: AWhen the supplies or services required by the agency are available from only one responsible source, and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, full and open competition need not be provided for.@ This Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive price quotations. Interested firms or persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement, but due to the nature of this proprietary data no other information is available on this procurement. All such price quotations must be received by the Government by 12 Noon EST, Friday, September 1, 2000 to be considered. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed purchase order based upon responses to this Notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Any information received from interested firms/persons responding to this Notice will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Any questions regarding this Notice shall be in writing and submitted to the Contracting Officer, Ms. Gloria Sweetney, via facsimile at (202) 205-1921. This Notice is not a RFP, IFB, or RFQ. Posted 08/15/00 (W-SN486374). (0228)

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