SOLICITATION NOTICE
76 -- Subscription Service - Attachment 1
- Notice Date
- 2/1/2013
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 511110
— Newspaper Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Executive Office of the President, Office of Procurement, Office of Procurement, 725 17th Street, NW, Room 5002, Washington, District of Columbia, 20503
- ZIP Code
- 20503
- Solicitation Number
- OAS-COO-R-13-0003
- Archive Date
- 3/1/2013
- Point of Contact
- Linda Mullen, Phone: 202-395-3314, Linda Mullen, Phone: 202-395-3314
- E-Mail Address
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Lmullen@oa.eop.gov, Lmullen@oa.eop.gov
(Lmullen@oa.eop.gov, Lmullen@oa.eop.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Solicitation Attachment 1 The Executive Office of the President (EOP) has a requirement for the purchase of Congressional Print and Online Subscription Services, including training for EOP's component users. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; a quote is being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This is Request for Quote Number OAS-COO-R-13-0003. This solicitation document will incorporate provisions and clauses that are in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-64, dated 1/18/2013. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Code for this procurement is 511110 - Newspaper Publishers. This is a full and open competition. The EOP intends to establish a single Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA), in accordance with FAR 13.5, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. The total value of the BPA is a Not to Exceed (NTE) price of $1.1 Million over a five-year period. The Government estimates, but does not guarantee, that the volume of purchases through this agreement will be $1.1 Million. The Government will monitor the BPA to ensure that no additional BPA Calls are placed once the ceiling threshold is reached. The BPA requirements are as follows: Congressional News, Events, Analysis and Specialty Legislative Services: • Forward looking daily news publication that covers important congressional action, floor activity, all open markups, hearings, and conference committee negotiations with a wrap-up of the previous day's Congressional activity. Coverage should be objective and non-partisan. The daily news publication must provide updates throughout the day via an online platform with email alerting at least twice a day and for breaking news stories, and it must include a searchable archive of stories dating back to 1985. • Non-partisan weekly report focusing on the people and institutions influencing the Congressional policy-making process with integrated access to the status of appropriations, vote charts, sidebar stories, profiles of members coded in the story, bill status charts, and related documents. The publication must have a searchable archive of past stories dating back to 1985. Event information for past, current, and future events including the House of Representatives, the Senate, the White House, Federal departments and agencies, Federal courts and leading policy groups. Event listings must include dates, times, locations, agendas, contact information and witnesses when available. The publication must be available both as a weekly print publication and in an online version. Vote charts must include all recorded votes for the previous week's Congressional actions, and numbered the same as the official numbering in the Congressional Record. The publication must include an annual report summarizing major legislation by broad subject area, and an annual vote study covering Presidential support, party unity, and floor vote participation for each member of Congress. • All event listings must integrate with electronic calendars and have an automatic email feature alerting users of any changes to selected events (i.e. date, time, location). • News articles, event listings, and analysis reports must be coded and/or indexed by bill numbers, committees, subcommittees and members so they are searchable and alert-able based on those fields. • Customizable bill charts that outline the statuses of selected bills with integrated links to relevant content (i.e. markup reports, floor votes, etc.). • Searchable database of bill analysis reports for major legislation with archives dating back to 1995. Analysis must include a synopsis of the bill, key highlights, background information and an outlook. Subscribing offices must be able to make up to six (6) custom requests per contract term for bill analysis reports to be created by the vendor (at no additional cost). • Daily report and/or newsletter and integrated online services that specifically tracks and analyzes the Federal budget and appropriations process. Bill statuses must be updated in real-time as they move through Congress and include information on the president's budget request and the agencies' response. The service must centralize all news, information and analysis, government documents, charts, transcripts, markup coverage, and event information as it pertains to the budget and appropriations process. The online platform must have dedicated pages for each appropriation bill including archived access dating back to 2004. • Issue specific specialty legislative services that provide unique news and analysis as it pertains to Congress. Coverage topics should include budget tracking, health care, energy and climate, banking, finance, homeland security, defense, transportation, agriculture, and more if available. Legislative Tracking Services: • Real-time legislative tracking tool that follows every action of every federal bill (introduction through passage). Capabilities must allow for real-time alerts to be sent to users based on keyword(s), bill number(s), committee(s), sponsor(s), co-sponsor(s), change, legislative stage, and date introduced. Every action of every bill must be delivered to the end user within twenty-five minutes of that action occurring. Database must include an archive of all bills and actions since 1995 with integrated content to other relevant information such as amendment text, markup coverage, news stories, analysis, government documents, etc. News articles and reports are not an appropriate substitute for this type of coverage. • In-the-room coverage of every House and Senate open committee and subcommittee markup including analysis on the debates and discussions as well as amendments offered, roll call vote breakdowns, links to the amendment text and voice vote outcomes. New markup reports must be published to platform within twenty-four hours of the markup concluding and the database must be searchable and alert-able by keyword(s), bill(s), member(s), committee(s), subcommittee(s), subject(s), committee type, event/action date, and appropriation bills. Must include an archive of content dating back to 1995. • Detailed reports focusing on floor activity and actions in the House of Representatives, which must include a daily report that provides a forward-looking projection of what is going to happen on the House floor the following day and outline any amendments and motions that are expected to be offered. This also must include a forward-looking weekly report that provides summaries and analysis of every bill scheduled for floor consideration for the upcoming week with supplements being made available for major changes throughout the week. Floor and Conference summary reports also must be made available, a detailed report on any major bill on the House floor that includes background information, cost estimates, and fact tables. An archive of information must be available going back to 1995. • Daily and forward-looking report of scheduled and expected Senate floor action for the following day, which must include a daily email alert with updates throughout the day as they become available. • Database of all floor votes that is searchable and email alert-able. The information must clearly list how every member votes on the House and Senate floors since 1991 and include an overview of each vote, the vote count, and final outcome including members who abstained. Votes must appear within two hours of each vote concluding in the respective chamber. • Access to a tool that allows the user to compare any set of votes since 1991 and any set of members in the House or Senate, and the ability to pull together custom reports showing the positions of those members on those votes. • In-depth biographies of every member of Congress including information on their states and districts, voting and electoral histories, committee assignments, legislative priorities, recent news, and detailed fact files. Users must be able to create custom member reports for select members and sections of said profiles. Profiles of members must include government contract, grant, and largest company data organized by district and / or state. • Accurate database of Congressional staffers including staff for personal, committee and leadership offices. This feature must allow users to create custom staff lists, input notes on each staffer and office, send customized mass emails, run reports, access town hall meeting data, and run analytics reports. The information must be linked to the biographies of every member of Congress. • Access to streaming and searchable videos of everything that has happened on the House and Senate floors since the 108th Congress (2003). Users must be able to select and view video clips of floor action moments after the words are spoken (and hours before the Congressional Record is published). The database must be searchable and alert-able. • Verbatim transcripts of Congressional, financial, newsmaker and regulatory hearings and testimony, such as witness statements for the record, and including the ‘Questions and Answers' (Q&A) between members and agency private sector interest group witnesses. Transcripts must be full text searchable and alert-able by keyword, bill number, member, committee, event/action date, committee type, publication date, appropriation bills, and fiscal year with an archive of content back to the 104th Congress (1995). • Tool allowing users to access segments of transcripts as they are being uploaded to the web site platform including the ability for users to request transcripts not planned for coverage. • Daily email outlining which events will be transcribed for the day and which are set for future coverage. • Platform allowing users to track state-level legislation and regulations across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The service must allow for full text searching based on keywords, phrases, sponsors, bill numbers, and legislative stage. Bills and regulations must allow for annotations to be made by the user and for the users to setup custom email alerts to be notified of new bills and/or regulations that match their interests. The service must provide update statuses every 24 hours and include access to committee hearings and filter news articles. Enhanced Government Documents, Directories & Tools: • Databases of every Congressional Research Service (CRS) report published since 1993 to include updated versions and newly released reports that are available, searchable and alert-able in full text. The database must be searchable and alert-able by keyword(s), bill(s), publication date, report category, report number, appropriation bills, and fiscal year. New reports must be made available within five (5) business days of being published by the CRS. • Comprehensive database of government documents including but not limited to: draft bill text, "Dear Colleague" letters, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports, briefs and cost estimates, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Government Accountability Office (GAO) documents, Congressional press releases, White House documents, Statements of Administration Policy, Agency and Judicial documents. The database must include a searchable archive of documents dating back to 1999, and must be searchable and email alert-able by keyword(s), bill(s), member(s), committee(s), document type, issuing agency, subjects, and publication type. Users must be able to make custom requests for specific documents at no additional cost. • Full-text searchable and email alert-able archived databases of enhanced government publications including Bill Text (current and prior text), Amendment text (Committee and Floor), Committee Reports (converted report tables for earmark tracking), the Federal Register, Committee Testimony (prepared), the Congressional Record (with hyperlinked table of contents), CRS Bill Digest, Public Law text and the United States Code. All databases must have archived content dating back to 1995 with daily updates for new information as it becomes available and searchable charts. • Bill comparison reports allowing users to compare the language found in two different versions of the same bill, in two different bills, or in selected sections of any two bills. Must include an archive of bills since 1995. • A tool that allows the user to automatically link the text of a bill to the section of the public law and/or U.S. Code it would modify should that bill be enacted into law. An email alert system also must be available to alert users when bills are introduced that might impact laws of interest. • Hard-copy directories that include information on Congress and the Executive Branch that includes brief member biographies, staff listings, address information, member photos, vote studies, etc. • Hard-copy of annual Congressional Almanacs detailing all major bills brought before Congress, and including narrative descriptions of legislative action by subject area and comprehensive roll call votes. • Executive Briefings to include Defense, Transportation, Energy & Climate, Banking & Finance, and Agriculture & Food. Searching, Alerts and Platform Features: • Platform must allow each user to save custom lists within the online system. Changes to custom lists must automatically update and reflect everywhere that list has already been used. It is required that custom lists can be built by keywords and phrases, bill lists, law lists, member lists, vote lists, and committee and subcommittee lists. • Platform must allow each user to create custom email alerts so that they can receive new information pertinent to their interest areas based on their delivery preferences to include real-time. At a minimum, alert options must include setup by keywords, bills, committees, subcommittees, and members based on indexing and meta-tags. • Platform must allow each user to annotate documents, create folders, save specific documents, and add notes for future reference. • Vendor must provide unlimited training and support at no additional cost. This shall include but is not limited to in-person trainings, webinar trainings, access to telephone hotline, access to live chat, and a detailed help index with video tutorials. Separate BPA Calls will be issued for each EOP component (users range from 1 to 75 per component). The BPA Calls will provide a separate Statement of Work to identify the following: • Subscription(s) required • Required format (on-line and/or print) • Number of users • Note if training services are needed and in what format • Component point of contact (name, phone, and email address) • Period of performance for the subscription(s) The period of performance for the BPA will be for a 6-month base period and 4 12-month option years, effective 4/1/2013 through 9/30/2017. The place of performance will be in the Washington, DC area. The following provisions are incorporated by reference: 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items (FEB 2012); and 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (JAN 2013). The following clauses under Paragraphs (b) and (c) of 52.212-5 will apply: (b) - FAR 52.203-6, 52-204-10, 52.209-6, 52.209-9, 52.209-10, 52.219-8, 52.219-28, 52.222-3, 52.222-21, 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, 52.222-40, 52.222-54, 52.223-18, 52.225-13, 52.232-33 and (c) 52.222-53. The full text of a FAR clause may be accessed electronically at http://www.acqnet.gov/far. Copies will be provided upon request. Attachment 1 includes Contract Administration Information, Specific EOP Terms and Conditions, and additional applicable FAR clauses in full text, such as, 52.212-1; 52.212-2; 52.217-8; 52.217-9; 52.232-18; and 52.239-1. The EOP intends to issue firm-fixed price BPA Calls against the BPA. The Government will award the BPA resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose quote conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors will be used to evaluate quotes: Technical, Past Performance and Price. Any questions must be received not later than 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on February 12, 2013. Submit questions to Linda Mullen at lmullen@oa.eop.gov and copy solicitations@oa.eop.gov. Quotes are due by 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on February 22, 2013, to: Linda Mullen at lmullen@oa.eop.gov and copy solicitations@oa.eop.gov.
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- Address: Washington, District of Columbia, 20503, United States
- Zip Code: 20503
- Zip Code: 20503
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