SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- Online Database and Research Service
- Notice Date
- 9/15/2006
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 516110
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Mobility Command, 6th Contracting Squadron, 2606 Brown Pelican Ave., MacDill AFB, FL, 33621-5000
- ZIP Code
- 33621-5000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-F2VVCC6242A100
- Response Due
- 9/21/2006
- Archive Date
- 10/6/2006
- Description
- This is a notice of intent to solicit and negotiate a sole-source order with Congressional Quarterly, 1255 22nd St NW, Washington DC, for a subscription to CQ Online Database and Research Service. The 6th Contracting Squadron intends to issue a purchase order for delivery under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Due to unique legislative research and analysis capabilities offered by Congressional Quarterly, this is a one of a kind solution to meet CDR, USCENTCOM requirements for monitoring the formulation of new legislation, assessing Area of Responsibility (AOR) impact and making inputs into the congressional process to ensure efficient prosecution of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Congressional Quarterly (CQ) is the only service presently on the market that provides the full range of current data base access products as well as proprietary assessments required to access and analyze DoD related legislation. Listed below, by data source, is why each CQ database has unique features: - Forward-looking articles on all-important activities schedule for that day plus a comprehensive wrap-up of all the previous day?s Hill News. - Provides the most detailed listings on all scheduled floor, committee and subcommittee action. Included dates, times, locations, agendas, contact information and witnesses. Allows searching of CQ schedules by subcommittee detailing witness information, committee/subcommittee and sends updates and additions via e-mail automatically through alert function. Included archives back to 1987. - Newsmaker Transcripts: CQ Transcriptions provides verbatim transcripts of speeches, press conferences, and news events with particular emphasis on the President and the Executive Branch, Congress, the State Department, Pentagon, and Department of Justice. Newsmaker transcripts also include interviews of key government officials on various TV talk shows, including NBC's "Today Show," CBS's "Early Show," ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "American Morning," CNN's "Live Today", ABC's "This Week," and more. -CQ BillTrack: (CQ Proprietary CQ Content) More detailed, comprehensive chronologies of actions on bills than offered by any other source, with more links to additional information in CQ.com. Full chronology includes descriptions of all amendments in committee and during floor debate, as well as identification of related bills, and citations to members? statements on bills in the Congressional Record, indicating the tenor of their remarks. Links are available for Congressional Record references, yea-nay vote tallies, CQ coverage of committee markups and hearings, and related bills. -CQ Custom Bill Reports: Proprietary Content-included with CQ Bill Track- Choose the information you need to see on each of your bills from a chart of major milestones to a detailed legislative history. Use a personal list of bills to quickly create a bill status report. -CQ Budget Tracker: included with CQ BillTrack-Allows CQ.com subscribers to keep track of appropriations bills through a special status chart providing links to related CQ Stories, floor and committee amendments and votes, committee and conference reports and related/companion bills. Through special Traffic Alerts updated real-time, CQ editors keep you informed in the latest developments. - CQ BillAnalysis: CQ proprietary content, offers original in-depth analysis of bills, including overview, background, highlights and outlook. Users may request specific analysis of a bill to be done within 24 hours. -Bill Text-(1987-present) - Full Text of all bill versions. Each Bill is keyword searchable and also includes links to a PDF version of the bill from the US Government Printing Office (GPO) Web Site. Usually updated between 8am-10am one or two days after the bill?s introduction. Users can search for bills using personalized lists, or by words or phrases, bill numbers, member names, committees, chamber, stage in the legislation process, bill version date or date the bill is introduced. Results can be sorted by bill number, date introduced, sponsor and relevancy. - CQ Bill Text Comparisons: allows users to compare bills back to the 104th Congress, including by section. - CRS Bill Digest: is fully integrated into CQ BillTrack and users can run alerts against them. - CQ Committee Coverage: proprietary CQ content- Same day news coverage on all open markups and some that are closed including summaries of amendments, roll-call vote breakdowns and voice vote outcomes. Comprehensive committee votes coverage is available within 24 hours of the markup. CQ committee Coverage also included listings of past hearing and meetings, with witness lists included. Updated within hours of the event. Markup coverage provided back to 1989 (101st Congress). News stories are online within hours of the markups; all data can be run against alerts. - CQ Committee Rosters: Included with CQ Committee Coverage-are integrated into the CQ Members and CQ Committees database. Provides key staff information updated as new information becomes available. - CQ Committee Reports: CQ enhances Committee Reports to allow users to narrow search by word, committee, chamber, publication date simultaneously; with archives back to the 101st Congress. - Congressional Transcripts: Users may request that hearings be covered via on-line request form, with coverage available 24-48 hours after hearing; and all transcripts can be run against alerts. - Congressional Record: Searchable by word, member, bill number, chamber, page number, 18 specific categories and publication date; all data can be run against alerts. Data archives back to 100th Congress. Updated daily between 8am ? 9am. - CQ House Action Reports: Proprietary CQ content: Legislative Day, showing what?s due up on the House floor, including likely amendments; Legislative Week, showing what?s due up on the House floor for the coming week; CQ HAR Fact Sheets, detailing the provisions of major bills and key points of debate; Conference Reports, detailing ? in advance of House floor debate ? the content of Conference Committee reports on bills; and Floor Summaries, recapping what happened during House floor debate ? all integrated with CQ BillTrack, and available for use in alerts. - CQ Senate Watch: Proprietary CQ content, summary of scheduled and potential Senate action, providing essential details about legislation and leadership decisions. - CQ Archives: no other source offers the extensive archive of these government documents. Bill Text back to the 100th Congress, Committee Reports back to 101st Congress, Congressional Record back to 100th Congress; CQ BillTrack back to 99th Congress, CQ Committee Coverage back to 101st Congress, CQ Floor votes back to 98th Congress, CQ Weekly back to 1983, CQ Today back to 99th Congress, and Congressional Transcripts back to 101st Congress. - CQ Member Profiles: Proprietary content, includes in-depth political biographies of all members of Congress, with CQ's exclusive vote studies on each member's voting record. Member profiles are fully integrated into CQ.com and are archived back to 104th Congress. - Custom E-Mail Alerts: You can create a Custom Alert on any search criteria, across any combination of sources you subscribe to. Choose your own notification schedule and delivery format. Results are sent to your email account and posted to your very own personal Results Page located at the MyCQ Tab. - Personal Search List: For bills, words and phrases, members and votes. Your personal lists will always be available to you, whether you?re searching or creating Alerts or reports. Changes to your custom list will automatically be reflected everywhere you?ve used that list, making it the easiest way for you to centralize your tracking. - CQ?s Advanced Search: Provides additional search options to assist users in locating documents. Depending upon the database, options may included bill number, key words or phrases, committees, subcommittees, sponsor, stage in legislative process, words in bill title, member name, chamber, date bill introduced, public law number, pages numbers, amendment numbers, CR categories and subject. - In-Line Linking: Link to a ?baseball card? of information on Bill and Public Laws from CQ?s news, committee stories, schedules, committee vote descriptions, and Bill Analysis documents. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement NLT 1500 21 SEPTEMBER 2006. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. Delivery shall be FOB Destination to Macdill AFB, FL. NAICS Code is 516110 and small business size standard is 500 Employees. The following clauses and provisions are incorporated and in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-04, applicable FAR and DFARS clauses are 52.204-7,52.212-1, 52.212-2, 52.212-4, 52.212-5, 52-232-33,52.233-3, 52.247-34, 252,212-7000, and 252.212-7001, 252.232-7003, 252.247-7024 and provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items. Clauses and provisions are located at http://farsite.hill.af.mil. Interested parties may e-mail julie.corchado@macdill.af.mil or fax 813-828-5111, Julie Corchado.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 2606 Brown Pelican Avenue, Macdill AFB FL 33621
- Zip Code: 33621
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 33621
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