SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- RESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS DATA - JOFOC
- Notice Date
- 4/10/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541910
— Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, U. S. Census Bureau, Suitland, Acquisition Division, Room 3J438, Washington, District of Columbia, 20233
- ZIP Code
- 20233
- Solicitation Number
- BEA17-00076
- Archive Date
- 5/9/2017
- Point of Contact
- pamela a miller, Phone: 301/763-3547
- E-Mail Address
-
pamela.a.miller@census.gov
(pamela.a.miller@census.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Census Bureau, on behalf of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), intends to award a purchase order on a sole source basis to JD Power and Associates, 2625 Townsgate Road, Suite 100; Westlake Village, CA 91361, under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1 (a)(2) which states that "When the supplies or services required by the agency are available from only one responsible source, or, for DoD, NASA, and the Coast Guard, from only one or a limited number of responsible sources, and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements, full and open competition need not be provided for." The Census Bureau, BEA, intends to solicit and negotiate with JD Power and Associates, Inc for Residential communications Services Data for Measuring the Digital Economy. It is important that BEA continually strives to develop new and improved source data to develop improved deflators used in the national accounts to obtain estimates of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that are used to obtain a large and growing segment in the national accounts. Product innovation in ICT goods and services pose special challenges in constructing those deflators. Telecommunication services (both wired--cable, telephone and broadband--and wireless) provided to households by telecommunications carriers is a large and growing segment of Personal Consumption Expenditures and an area where the price deflators that we use are thought to be deficient. The objective of this procurement is to obtain data that may be used to estimate the dollar value of improvements in telecommunication services to households in order to construct new deflators for the national accounts. The data are survey responses from two surveys administered by two instruments Section 3 - Scope of Work The contractor shall provide the following data, it must include: A. Individual responses from participants in surveys called "Wireless Carrier Study" B. US Residential Wireline Provider Survey." Features of the survey data to be delivered 2015 2016 Wireless Carrier Study Number of files 2 SPSS Files: 1. January-June 2015 2. July-December 2015 2 SPSS Files: 1. January-June 2016 2. July-December 2016 Number of observations 1. January-June 2015 - 45,039 2. July-December 2015 - 43,820 1. January-June 2016 - 31,342 2. July-December 2016 - 31,528 Time period fielded 1. January-June 2015 2. July-December 2015 1. January-June 2016 2. July-December 2016 Time period fielded Nov-Dec 2014, Feb 2015, Apr-May 2015, Jul-Aug 2015 Nov 2015, Jan-Feb 2016, Apr-May 2016, Jul-Aug 2016 JD Power and Associates has been identified as the only source that can provide the measure of expertise, independence, objectivity, and audience acceptance necessary to meet the program requirements of BEA. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, interested parties may identify their interests and capability to respond to this requirement by 2:00 PM, EST, April 24, 2017 by email to pamela.a.miller@census.gov. Phone calls will not be honored. A determination by the Census Bureau not to compete the proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Census Bureau.
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