SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Commerce and Finance Data
- Notice Date
- 3/3/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Security Service, Headquarters, Russell-Knox Building, 27130 Telegraph Rd., Quantico, Virginia, 22314, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22314
- Solicitation Number
- HS0021-15-N-0030
- Archive Date
- 3/27/2015
- Point of Contact
- Shawna Mitchell, Phone: 5713056548, Willie B. Greene, Phone: 5713056338
- E-Mail Address
-
shawna.mitchell@dss.mil, Willie.Greene@dss.mil
(shawna.mitchell@dss.mil, Willie.Greene@dss.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This notice serves as market research in accordance with FAR Part 10. Pursuant to FAR 52.215-3 Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes, responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED FROM THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION. This sources sought synopsis is issued solely for information and planning purposes. The purpose is to improve the Government's understanding of the current marketplace and to identify potential sources capable of performing the effort described herein. The Defense Security Service (DSS) is seeking sources to provide an all-inclusive creator, aggregator, and organizer of data, news, research, legal content focused on anything in or that drives commerce rendering useful actionable information that provides DSS the capability to deliver enhanced intelligence, threat indicators, and risk assessments, and has the following capabilities: •· Data on over 52,000 public global companies with complete financials and transparency into the Source Documents; supply chain analytics; peer, segment and risk analysis; management and board profiles with interlocking relationships; transcripts and recordings of conference calls; equity and debt ownership; corporate events and transactions; mergers, acquisitions, joint venture, divestiture deal details and private company data on over 1,5000,000 companies •· Industry and product specific data across numerous industries encompassing the following industrial groups - Defense, Material, Industrials, Technology, Energy and Utilities, Healthcare, and financial. •· Modules and access to analysts specifically focused on Defense spending for weapon system development •· Economic, agency, and industry statically releases and publications and time series data from all around the world to include global industry forecasts. •· Access to data and analysis on Department of Defense programs spending to include data on programs, agencies, and product lines •· Track orders, backlogs, and expiring contacts on an annual, quarterly basis for government contracts •· Ability to compare a defense company with its peers •· View company's Defense contract portfolio and ability to evaluate performance relative to expectations •· Training and assistant in the daily use of the platform or when changes or updates are made to the platform that require training government personnel on the use of the new capabilities The National American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this action is 519190 - Information - All Other Services, size standard $27,500,000.00. All prospective contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database to be awarded a DoD contract. The acquisition strategy has not yet been determined. Market research results will assist the Defense Security Service in determining whether this requirement will be full and open, a small business set-aside, or a sole source acquisition. Note that, if there is sufficient demonstrated interest and capability among small business contractors, a key factor in determining if an acquisition will be a Small Business set-aside is that two or more potential small business prime contractors are capable of performing at least 50% of the effort as defined in FAR 52.219-14 Limitations. If a contractor believes that they have the capability and are qualified to meet the government's requirement, please respond to this Sources Sought Synopsis with a capabilities package. The capabilities package should be brief and concise, yet clearly demonstrate an ability to meet the stated requirements. The package shall not exceed 10 pages and include the following information: 1. Name of Company 2. Address 3. Point of Contact (to include phone number and email address) 4. Recent, relevant experience in all areas should be provided. 5. Firms responding to this announcement should indicate whether they are a large business, small business, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), 8(a) certified business, Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), or Historically Underutilized Business (HUBZone) 6. Company Size and CAGE code 7. Is your company domestically or foreign owned (if foreign, please indicate the country of ownership) This is an INDUSTRY NOTIFICATION and is for information purposes ONLY. This is NOT A SOLICITATION. In accordance with FAR 15.201, this announcement shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the Government. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this notice or otherwise pay for information solicited. All submissions are requested to be made electronically by 4:00pm, local time Quantico, VA, on 12 March 2015 and emailed to Shawna Mitchell at shawna.mitchell@dss.mil. The Government reserves the right to contact the submitting parties as required, for further clarification on material provided. In addition, the Government will use its assessment of the information and other research to determine which sources appear qualified to provide the work required by the Government. Respondents will not be notified of the assessment results.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Quantico, Virginia, United States
- Record
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