SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE PURCHASE ORDER
- Notice Date
- 7/18/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511110
— Newspaper Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Office of Acquisition and Grants Services, Mail Stop 50, West Bldg, 3rd Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTFR53-14-P-00034
- Archive Date
- 8/12/2014
- Point of Contact
- Devona Spivey,
- E-Mail Address
-
devona.spivey@dot.gov
(devona.spivey@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC, intends to award a Sole Source, Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) purchase order to Politico for Politico Pro electronic subscription. This source possesses highly detailed, rapid-fire reporting on the politics affecting the transportation industry among others. The value of the purchase order is expected to be $19,950.00. The proposed contract action, for which the Government intends to solicit to only one source under authority of FAR 6.302, is for online and mobile Federal policy news service. The service will provide readily available accurate, in depth Federal policy news via the internet and smartphone. Also, the following requirements are required: •a) Rapid morning, noon and evening daily updates accessible online and via mobile devices. •b) Comprehensive morning newsletters by 6 a.m., Whiteboard posts as news happens in real-time and thorough transportation topics throughout the day. •c) Calendar of day to day events outing the issues, who, where and time events. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. Respondents must provide a quote for electronic subscriptions. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. Interested parties with the capability of meeting the proposed requirements are requested to provide an E-mail to the FRA point of contact, Ms. Devona Spivey, ( Devona.spivey@dot.gov ) not later than 1:00 p.m. EST July 28, 2014. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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- Record
- SN03430941-W 20140720/140718235419-ce36ae348cea5589d33254d55e75db0a (fbodaily.com)
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