SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- State Net Sole Source Notice of Intent
- Notice Date
- 4/30/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- NB210030-A-04125
- Archive Date
- 5/25/2010
- Point of Contact
- Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
-
keith.bubar@nist.gov
(keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division, on behalf of the NIST Standards Services Division, intends to negotiate with State Net.; Sacramento, CA, on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR Subpart 13.106-1 (b), Soliciting from a Single Source, to provide a specialized legislation and regulations information service. In order to comply with NIST counsel recommendation (May 2004) and in order to fulfill the United States' World Trade Organization (WTO) Member obligation under the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement (TBT), NIST-NCSCI (acting in its capacity as the U.S. WTO TBT Notification Authority) is required to notify the World Trade Organization of changes in U.S. technical regulations and conformity assessment rules at the Federal and sub-Federal (State) level. To fulfill this obligation, NCSCI proposes to purchase a specialized legislation and regulations information service, StateNet, to monitor, process, and transmit proposed State regulations from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Market research has shown that State Net is the only known capable provider of a tool that can satisfy the needs of NIST. The following specifications/features of the "State Net" tool make it the only capable solution for state-level monitoring: -Capable of monitoring over 60 websites daily. Although some states provide electronic access to regulatory information, over 60 websites would need to be monitored daily for state regulatory information. - Provides a vendor consultant for daily systematic review, identification and updates on the most important issues to the user agency. - Capable of monitoring all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Register -Service is Internet-based with unlimited access - Contains full texts of all regulations - Updated daily - Is searchable - Offers customized issue screening and reporting. Customized issue screening and reporting is required due to the volume of materials required for review. It is more cost effective for NCSCI to procure the screening and reporting services than to have NIST staff perform the work. Based on recent market research, State Net is the only known tool that can provide a legislative and regulatory service that currently provides the required screening and reporting services, in addition to customer access to the database that meet the required specifications. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 519130 with a Small Business Size Standard of 500 employees. NIST anticipates negotiating and awarding a firm-fixed-price purchase order to State Net for this requirement. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements in full listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Information submitted in response to this notice will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Keith Bubar at keith.bubar@nist.gov.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02137728-W 20100502/100430235857-fa0de7a42b98fb0da537b6adae482025 (fbodaily.com)
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