SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Renewal of Bloomberg Online Financial Subscription Service
- Notice Date
- 4/30/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), Division of Procurement, Avery 5F, 200 Third Street, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26106-5312, United States
- ZIP Code
- 26106-5312
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-BPD-09-0033
- Archive Date
- 5/21/2009
- Point of Contact
- Jacob Oberlin,, Phone: 304-480-7180, Keri Moore,, Phone: 304-480-7167
- E-Mail Address
-
PSB2@bpd.treas.gov, PSB2@bpd.treas.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Request for Information Subject to final approval, The Bureau of the Public Debt, Administrative Resource Center, Division of Procurement, intends to negotiate a sole-source procurement, in accordance with FAR 6.302-1, to Bloomberg Financial L.P., 731 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022 for the renewal of Bloomberg Online Financial Subscription Service, for a base and four option years. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTATION. The Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD) is currently utilizing the Bloomberg Online Financial Subscription Service, and is in need of the renewal of this service for 2009 in order to ensure continued performance. A sole source is intended for this order; no other source is known that is fully capable and available to provide the required services. Bloomberg Online Financial Subscription Service is used by Treasury Auction participants, U.S. Treasury policymakers, and debt managers to access historical and prevailing data on U.S. Treasury securities such as real-time pricing, issue information, and WI rates. The data provided by Bloomberg is proprietary data. It is absolutely critical that BPD have access to this specific service so that they may monitor and verify the information provided by Bloomberg to auction participants and to ensure the integrity and efficiency of the auction process. Bloomberg also provides news and historical data used by offices at BPD to analyze and monitor fixed-income markets. BPD's staff has been trained by Bloomberg personnel on the use of the Bloomberg terminal. Interested respondents shall demonstrate the capability to provide the same level of service and provide user training as cost effectively as renewing services with Bloomberg. BPD will consider all affirmative responses received no later than 5 days after publication of this notice. Affirmative responses shall be accompanied by sufficient documentation to clearly show how it would be advantageous to the government to switch providers for this requirement, etc. software cost, training for employees, contingencies, professional environment, and government securities regulations, (GSRS). A request for more information will not be considered an affirmative response. No solicitation document is available. If no affirmative written response is received that clearly demonstrates the ability to meet all the requirements and that it is more advantageous to the Government, we intend to negotiate a sole-source award to Bloomberg Financial. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The intended period of performance for this requirement is 12 months from date of award, plus four option years. Responses to this request must be submitted no later than 2:00 p.m. ET on May 6, 2009, and must be submitted electronically to PSB2@bpd.treas.gov to the attention of Jacob Oberlin. 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 compatible documents are acceptable.
- Web Link
-
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 200 Third Street, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26106, United States
- Zip Code: 26106
- Zip Code: 26106
- Record
- SN01805677-W 20090502/090430220651-b3e50f466db12b0b24854157fcf6820e (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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