SOLICITATION NOTICE
76 -- SUBSCRIPTION TO CONGRESSION QUARTERLY FOR A ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION
- Notice Date
- 11/14/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, FISC Pearl Harbor, N00604 FISC PEARL HARBOR 1942 Gaffney Street, Ste 100 Bldg. 475-2, Code 200 Pearl Harbor, HI
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N0060409T0069
- Response Due
- 11/20/2008
- Archive Date
- 12/5/2008
- Point of Contact
- JAMES D. FAVORS 808-473-7504
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Regional Contracting Department, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC), Pearl Harbor Hawaii intends to negotiate an unrestricted contract for Online access to electronic databases by the Legislative Affairs offices of US Pacific command, US Pacific Air Force, US Pacific Fleet, and US Army Pacific for up to 12 users. The proposed contract action is for commercial services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 13.501(a)(1)(ii). Solicitation No.N00604-08-T-0069. The Government intends to purchase/renew a subscription to CQ Online Database and Research Service. Due to unique legislative research and analysis capabilities offered by Congressional Quarterly, this is a one of a kind solution to meet Government 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). In order to allow potential vendors a fair opportunity to propose a similar or like item, interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for a competitive quote. However, the government will consider all quotes received within FIVE (5) DAYS after date of publication of this synopsis. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Award will be conducted under the provisions of FAR Part 12 Commercial Item and FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The NAICS Code is 519130 and the small business size standard is 500 employees. Pursuant to FAR 11.104, proposals must meet the following salient characteristics of CQ Online Database and Research Service with an "equal" item to be acceptable for award. The Regional Contracting Department, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii requests responses from responsible sources for products with the following: Daily News: Forward-looking articles on all-important activities scheduled for that day plus a comprehensive wrap-up of all the previous day's Hill News. Congressional and Executive news must be provided seven days a week and when Congress is in session or during recess. Weekly Digest: Provide a clear, unbiased perspective of how legislation is shaped, who is shaping it and how the process could affect your interests. Full text to be available and searchable, with archives dating back to 1983. Capability to browse stories from the current issue by topic, via the online subject index. Related links alongside the text stories include sidebar stories and links to create custom alerts based on bill numbers or subject areas within the story, view profiles of members mentioned in the story, create a related bills chart, and access related documents. Committee and Subcommittee Schedules: Provide the most detailed listings on all scheduled floor, committee and subcommittee action by committee by day. Include dates, times, locations, agendas, contact information and witnesses. Allow search of schedules by subcommittee detailing witness information, committee/subcommittee and sends updates and additions via e-mail automatically through alert function. Include archives back to 1987. Newsmaker Transcripts: Provide 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. Bill Tracking: Provide a detailed, comprehensive chronology of actions on bills, with more links to additional information. Full chronology to include 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 to be available for Congressional Record references, yea-nay vote tallies, coverage of committee markups and hearings, and related bills. Customize Bill Reports: Provide the ability to choose the information needed to see on each bill, a chart of major milestones to a detailed legislative history. Provide the ability to quickly create a bill status report using a personal list of bills. Budget Tracking: Allows subscribers to keep track of appropriations bills through a special status chart providing links to related stories, floor and committee amendments and votes, committee and conference reports and related/companion bills. Provide special Traffic Alerts, updated real-time, of latest developments relating to budget. Bill Analysis: Provide original in-depth analysis of bills, including overview, background, highlights and outlook. Essential to be able to provide the capability to request specific analysis of a bill to be done within 24 hours. Bill Text: (1987-present) - Provide the capability to keyword search for the full text of all bill versions. Include links to a PDF version of the bill from the US Government Printing Office (GPO) Web Site. Update provided between 8am-10am one or two days after the bill's introduction. User to be able to 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. Bill Text Comparisons: Allow users to compare bills back to the 104th Congress, including by section. CRS Bill Digest: Integrate into Bill Tracking process and allow users to run alerts against them. Committee Coverage: 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 to be available within 24 hours of the markup. Include listings of past hearing and meetings, with witness lists included. Update within hours of the event. Markup coverage to be provided back to 1989 (101st Congress). News stories to be online within hours of the markups; all data can be run against alerts. Committee Rosters: Provide key staff information updated as new information becomes available. Committee Reports: Provide enhanced Committee Reports to allow users to narrow search by word, committee, chamber, publication date simultaneously; with archives back to the 101st Congress. Congressional Transcripts: User to be able to 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.House Action Reports: Daily report, showing what's due up on the House floor, including likely amendments; Weekly report showing what's due up on the House floor for the coming week; 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.Senate Watch: Summary of scheduled and potential Senate action, providing essential details about legislation and leadership decisions. Record Scanner: Provide high-level summaries of each day's Congressional Record with links to the full text. Legislative Impact: Show users how pending legislation would affect existing laws and the U.S. Code. Legislative Impact enables users to search by bill number, code cite, statute-at-large number, word in act name or word in public law text. Display how laws have been amended over time or would be amended by pending legislation. Custom e-mail alerts to notify users when bills are introduced that would amend existing laws in their interest areas.U.S. Code: The complete text of the U.S. Code, to be the most current version available. Each section updated as new laws are passed. Users can create custom e-mail alerts that will notify them when bills are enrolled that would change specific sections of the code. Public Law Text: The complete text of public laws, dating to the First Congress, in 1789. Public Law Text includes margin annotations. The text is fully searchable since the 104th Congress. PDF versions are also available.Top Documents: Provide access to the full text of CRS reports, draft bills, GAO and CBO documents, Statements of Administration Policy, and other key government documents. Users also can receive daily notification of all documents gathered during the previous 24 hours and request specific documents that are not yet in the Top Docs database."Documents on request" service: Essential requirement that if document not in database and archives, service must be able to locate it.Federal Register: This is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules and notices of federal agencies as well as executive orders and other presidential documents from 1997 to present. Available each morning by 9 a.m., with full text, searchable by keyword, date, agency or item type.Archives: Bill Text back to the 100th Congress, Committee Reports back to 101st Congress, Congressional Record back to 100th Congress; Bill Tracking back to 99th Congress, Committee Coverage back to 101st Congress, Floor votes back to 98th Congress, Weekly Digest back to 1983, Daily Report back to 99th Congress, and Congressional Transcripts back to 101st Congress. Member Profiles: Provide in-depth political biographies of all members of Congress, with studies on each member's voting record. Member profiles archived back to 104th Congress. Essential requirement is to provide a narrative background analysis of Congress members and their membership on key committees. Floor Votes: Provide a useful summary of every vote on the House and Senate floors, the outcome of the vote, the vote tally by party, a list of the members and how they voted, and the president's position, if known. Updated within two hours of the vote. The archive dates to the 102nd Congress. Floor Debate Video: Includes comprehensive, searchable database of over 9,500 hours of floor debate dating to the 107th Congress. Users can search by member name, congressional session and keywords to access video clips of member's floor statements..ReCap-video coverage of House and Senate floor action. Provides keyword-searchable and alertable transcripts of all floor debate..ReClip-allows congressional offices and media organizations to select video segments and post them to their Web site.Custom E-Mail Alerts: Ability to 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. 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. Advanced Search: Provide 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 information on Bill and Public Laws from news, committee stories, schedules, committee vote descriptions, and Bill Analysis documents. Reference Files: Available and updated when necessary, Reference Files include: the status of major legislation; past appropriations and authorization bills; the recess schedule for the current Congress (PDF format); lists of governors, Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, Congress by the numbers (sessions and years); links to the Code of Federal Regulations; and the latest bills introduced. The prospective contractor must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Lack of registration in the CCR database will make an offeror/quoter ineligible for award. This is a COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION for commercial items prepared in accordance with the information in FAR Subpart 12.6 using Simplified Acquisition Procedures as supplemented with the additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This combined synopsis/solicitation SHALL be posted on both FEDBIZOPPS and NECO (http://www.neco.navy.mil/). All prospective quoters are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of amendments (if any) or other information pertaining to this solicitation. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisitions Circular's 2005-19 an d 2005-20, effective 9 Sep! and 6 Sep 2007 respectively; and DFARS Change Notice 20070913. It is the contractor's responsibility to be familiar with the applicable clauses and provisions. The clauses may be accessed in full text at the following addresses: www.acqnet.gov/far and http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfars/. This requirement is for a Firm fixed price contract for subscription to access CQ.com for four (4) offices with 11 users. The subscription period is one year from date of award. Proposals shall be emailed to james.d.favors@navy.mil no later than 12:00 pm (non) HST, 19 November 2008. The Contracting Officer shall evaluate each offer based on price, past performance and the previously listed required functional salient characteristics "equal" to CQ in accordance with FAR 11.104, FAR 12.602 and FAR 13.106. Facsimile quotes will be accepted at (808) 473-3524. The provisions at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to offerors-Commercial items; Far 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-commercial Items; and DFARS 252.212-7000, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items apply to this requirement. Offeror shall submit a completed copy of the provisions listed above with its offer. The following clauses are applicable by reference: FAR 52.212-4, Contact Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items; FAR 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated By Reference; FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders-commercial Items; FAR 52.232-18, Availability of Funds; and DFARS 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of commercial Items. The following clauses under FAR 52.212-5 apply to this requirement: FAR 52.219-21-Segregate Facilities, FAR 52.222-! 26 Equal Opportunity (E.O. 11246), FAR 52.222-36 Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities (29 U.S.C. 793); FAR 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration (31 U.S.C. 3332). REVIEW OF AGENCY PROTEST (FISCPH) (NOV 2004) (a) The contracting activity, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Pearl Harbor (FISCPH), will process agency protest in accordance with the requirements set forth in FAR 33.103 (d). (b) Pursuant to FAR 33.103 (d)(4), agency protests may be filed directly with the appropriate Reviewing Authority or a protester may appeal a decision rendered by a Contracting Officer to the Reviewing Authority. (c) The Reviewing Authority for FISCPH is the Director, Regional Contracting Department (Code 200A), Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Pearl Harbor, at 1942 Gaffney Street, Suite 100, Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-4549. Agency procurement protests should clearly identify the initial adjudicating official, i.e., the Contracting Office! r or Reviewing Official. (d) Quoters should note this review of the Contracting Officer's decision will not extend GAO's timeliness requirements. Therefore, any subsequent protest to GAO must be filed within 10 days of knowledge of initial adverse agency action. All prospective quoters interested in submitting a proposal for this solicitation shall include your name, address, telephone number and point of contact, fax number, e-mail address and commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code.
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