SOURCES SOUGHT
99 -- Television Program Listings Support
- Notice Date
- 3/4/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Media Activity, DMA Acquisition and Procurement CA, 23755 Z Street, Riverside, California, 92518-2031, United States
- ZIP Code
- 92518-2031
- Solicitation Number
- HQ0028-FY15-0003
- Archive Date
- 4/2/2015
- Point of Contact
- Kathryn Maurais, Phone: 9514132502, Susan M. Madrid, Phone: 951-413-2371
- E-Mail Address
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kathryn.maurais@dma.mil, susan.m.madrid.civ@mail.mil
(kathryn.maurais@dma.mil, susan.m.madrid.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- HQ0028-FY15-0003 SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT TELEVISION PROGRAM LISTINGS SUPPORT FOR AMERICAN FORCES NETWORK The Defense Media Activity (DMA) is seeking authorized sources to provide television and radio program listings support for online listings and listings/hardware support for the GFE scrolling passive program guides. Program listings support includes the listings origination of all AFN-TV program schedule and selected AFN radio channels. Listings data are currently delivered to a world-wide audience through two scrolling program guides, Atlantic and Pacific, and the ZAP2IT web based TV listings guide and is available for download into Windows Media Center computers and TIVO systems. CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS: DMA Contracting Office - West 23755 Z Street, Bldg. 2730 Riverside, CA 92518-2031 INTRODUCTION: This is a Sources Sought Synopsis to determine the availability and technical capability of small businesses (including the following subsets, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, HUBZone Firms; Certified 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses and Woman Owned Small Business) to provide the required products and/or services. The American Forces Network - Broadcast Center (AFN-BC) is seeking 12- month contract for the following items. CLIN 0001: Television program listings data origination and distribution service for 8 unique AFN television channels, distributed to two regional scrolling program guide players and 3 of the 11 channels are simple time zone shifts of the data, and 6 AFN Radio channels: 3 to each region. 3 of the radio channels are unique to AFN. All other channels are used to support at least one other program guide customer. Vendor will retrieve the AFN Program Listings Data from a publicly accessible AFN web page. AFN has 8 channels of unique data. The data are repeated to support multiple regional feeds. The primary channels with unique program listings data are as follows. AFN Family/Pulse is a unique channel in that it is programmed for families for 14 hours a day and programmed for teens for 10 hours a day. The program guide only lists either Family or Pulse. It does not list both except during the transition. When transitioning, both Family and Pulse are listed on separate lines on the program guide. - AFN News - AFN Sports - AFN XTRA - AFN Prime Pacific - AFN Prime Atlantic - AFN Spectrum - AFN Family/Pulse - AFN Movie Name Brand: Gracenote "Listings Distribution Services" service or equal. CLIN 0002: Provide Listings data support for the web and GFE Zap2it electronic program guides that were acquired through Tribune Media Services. Guide data to be uploaded to the program guide servers for the AFN Atlantic (CET time zone) and Pacific (Japan/Korea time zone) services once a day. Raw programming data are made available for retrieval on an AFN public server. It is the Vendor's responsibility to coordinate and/or reach agreement with Gracenote, formally Tribune Media Services, regarding the specific data format and data delivery to the Government furnished Zap2it program guides. The virtual channel listings by region are listed below by name, call letters on the guide and the primary channel listings (in parenthesis) that are used for the channel. Regional time offsets are listed where necessary. Channels are television unless specifically identified as radio. Pacific Guide Listings 1) AFN Sports-Japan - SPTS-J (Sports) 2) AFN Prime Atlantic - ATL (Prime Atlantic) 3) AFN Spectrum - SPEC (Spectrum) 4) AFN Pacific Japan - PAC-J (Pacific Prime) 5) AFN News - NEWS ( News) 6) AFN Xtra - XTRA (XTRA) 7) AFN Program Guide - AFNPRG ***no programming data are listed for channel 7. It is the program guide channel*** 9) AFN FAMILY/PULSE - 10) AFN Movie - Movie (Movie) 11) AFN Sports HD - SPTS-HD (Sports) 21) AFN Sports-Korea -SPTS-K (Sports) 22) AFN Prime Pacific-Korea -PAC-K (Pacific) 31)AFN Radio - AFN-R ***Radio Channel*** 32)AFN Talk Radio - TALK ***Radio Channel*** 42)NPR - NPR-R ***Radio Channel*** Atlantic Guide Listings 1) AFN Sports - SPORTS (Sports) 2) AFN Prime Atlantic -PRIME-A (Prime Atlantic) 3) AFN Spectrum - SPECT (Spectrum) 4) AFN Pacific Japan - PRIME-P (Pacific Prime) 5) AFN News - NEWS ( News) 6) AFN Xtra - XTRA (XTRA) 9) AFN FAMILY/PULSE - 10) AFN Movie - Movie (Movie) 11) AFN Sports HD - SPTS-HD (Sports) ***This channel is not currently listed on the Atlantic Program Guide*** 21) AFN Sports-Korea -SPTS-K (Sports) 22) AFN Prime Pacific-Korea -PAC-K (Pacific) 20) AFN Radio - AFN-R ***Radio Channel*** 24) AFN Talk Radio - TALK ***Radio Channel*** 25) NPR - NPR-R ***Radio Channel*** Namebrand: Gracenote "Listings Delivery to Zap2it Electronic Program Guides" or equal. DISCLAIMER: THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. CONTRACT/PROGRAM BACKGROUND: Contract Number: HQ0028-14-P-0085; HQ0028-13-P-0067; HQ0028-12-P-0096 Contract Type: Firm Fixed-Price Incumbent and their size: Tribune Media Services, large business Method of previous acquisition: Sole Sourced Provide Brief description of the current program/effort: Provide television and radio program listings support including program listings origination and daily posting of program listings information online and to GFE scrolling program guides. List Anticipated Time Frame: 1 May 2015 to 30 Apr 2016 List Place of Performance: NA REQUIRED CAPABILITIES: Contractor shall be authorized to provide daily listings downloads and hardware technical support for the GFE scrolling program guides that were originally acquired through Tribune Media Services web based display of the same channels and support DVR services such as Windows Media Center and TIVO. Technical support shall include remote problem diagnostic and telephone support for a minimum of 8AM - 5PM EST, Mon-Fri, excluding US Federal holidays for hardware and software. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: N/A SOURCES SOUGHT: The anticipated North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this requirement is 541511, with a size standard of $27.5M. This Sources Sought Synopsis is requesting responses to the following criteria ONLY from small businesses that can provide the required services under the NAICS Code. To assist DMA in making a determination regarding the level of participation by small business in any subsequent procurement that may result from this Sources Sought, you are also encouraged to provide information regarding your plans to use joint venturing (JV) or partnering to meet each of the requirements areas contained herein. This includes responses from qualified and capable Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Service Disabled-Veteran Owned Small Businesses, Women-owned Small Businesses, HUBZone Small Businesses, and 8(a) companies. You should provide information on how you would envision your company's areas of expertise and those of any proposed JV/partner would be combined to meet the specific requirements contained in this announcement. In order to make a determination for a small business set-aside, two or more qualified and capable small businesses must submit responses that demonstrate their qualifications. Responses must demonstrate the company's ability to perform in accordance with the Limitations on Subcontracting clause (FAR 52.219-14). SUBMISSION DETAILS: Responses should include: 1) Business name and address; 2) Name of company representative and their business title; 3) Type of Small Business; 4) Cage Code; 5) Contract vehicles that would be available to the Government for the procurement of the product and service, to include ENCORE II, General Service Administration (GSA), GSA MOBIS, NIH, NASA SEWP, Federal Supply Schedules (FSS), or any other Government Agency contract vehicle. (This information is for market research only and does not preclude your company from responding to this notice.) 6) Certification that the vendor is an authorized provider of these services including technical software and hardware support through Tribune Media Services. Vendors who wish to respond to this should send responses via email NLT 18 March 2015, 2:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) to kathryn.a.maurais.civ@mail.mil. Interested businesses should submit a brief capabilities statement package (no more than five pages) demonstrating ability to perform the services listed in this Technical Description. Documentation should be in bullet format. Proprietary information and trade secrets, if any, must be clearly marked on all materials. All information received that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned. All government and contractor personal reviewing RFI responses will have signed non-disclosure agreements and understand their responsibility for proper use and protection from unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information as described 41 USC 423. The Government shall not be held liable for any damages incurred if proprietary information is not properly identified.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 23755 Z Street, Riverside, California, 92518, United States
- Zip Code: 92518
- Zip Code: 92518
- Record
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