SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- News Distribution Service - RFI Draft Statement of Need
- Notice Date
- 5/9/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541840
— Media Representatives
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, U. S. Census Bureau, Suitland, Acquisition Division, Room 3J438, Washington, District of Columbia, 20233
- ZIP Code
- 20233
- Solicitation Number
- RFIODLT003
- Archive Date
- 6/1/2012
- Point of Contact
- Dawn L. Tucker, Phone: 301-763-3470, Lizannette L. Velez, Phone: 301-763-1824
- E-Mail Address
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dawn.lenore.tucker@census.gov, lizannette.velez@census.gov
(dawn.lenore.tucker@census.gov, lizannette.velez@census.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- RFI Summary Information Sheet RFI Draft Statement of Need U.S. CENSUS BUREAU REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT NEWS DISTRIBUTION SERVICES The NAICS Codes used for this RFI are: 541840 - Media Representatives 541860 - Direct Mail Advertising In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations Part 10, the following Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for Market Research purposes. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a commitment to issue a Request for Proposal by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau is not accepting offers at this time nor will the information provided be evaluated or considered as an offer. The Census Bureau is not responsible for any administrative cost incurred by a vendor in response to this announcement. Although answers to this RFI are optional, the Census Bureau will appreciate and encourages companies to submit responses based on their expertise in the field of communications. Based on the information provided, and as part of its ongoing market research, the Census Bureau may contact individual respondents for additional information. All information provided will be kept confidential and will be utilized for market research purposes directly related to this effort. Any price or technical information submitted in response to this RFI will not be evaluated by the government. BACKGROUND: The information hereby requested is intended to assist the U.S. Census Bureau (Census Bureau) to learn more and assess the availability of news distribution service(s) that would allow the Census Bureau to gauge the effectiveness of its work in the media and keep abreast of new developments that require additional attention. Please see attached draft statement of need for further information about the requested product and services. INSTRUCTIONS: The following information shall be provided in response to this request for information: Section I - Business Information Please provide: 1. Company name, address, and Web site. 2. Contact person's name, position, email and phone number. The contact person shall have the authority and technical knowledge to clarify responses with government representatives. 3. Brief description of the organization, business size (i.e. large, small, small disadvantaged, woman-owned, certified 8(a), veteran, and/or service disabled veteran owned business), products, principal markets, and geographical areas serviced. 4. Complete the attached RFI summary information sheet. 5. Licensing and/or Subscription Information: Respondents to the RFI shall provide a copy of any Licensing Agreement information and/ or its Subscription information, and any additional product(s) information that may assist the Census Bureau to assess the availability of commercial products / software that could satisfy its requirements as described in the attached draft Statement of Need. 6. Customer Information: Vendors are encouraged to include contact information of current customers using their products, preferably federal government agencies, including name of agency, Point of contact, title, phone number and email address. Section II - Product Technical Information Please provide a written statement addressing technical capabilities of vendors' product(s) and services that could meet all government needs for a news distribution service, as described in the attached draft Statement of Need. Marketing information (e.g. sales brochures) about product capabilities are encouraged to be submitted. In addition, please provide the following information, if applicable to your services. If any of the items below is not applicable, please state so in your response. 1. Are package options available that bundle multimedia capabilities? 2. Describe your company's approach to web optimization. 3. Describe storage capabilities including any limitations, both amount of storage and any time limitations. 4. Describe reporting access. 5. Provide information regarding the impact or usefulness of multimedia add-on's used for media pick-up. 6. Provide information regarding the impact of pick-up for your service distributions. Section III - Product Pricing Please provide price information for your company's product and service described in the previous section. This information shall be based on quantity of licenses for yearly service (e.g. 50 licenses/year, etc.), and level of access to information. • Access to the product/service for 50 users and the pricing for additional users if available. • Technical Support - Is there an additional fee for technical support or is it included in the base price? If additional fees, include the fee structure. • Electronic News Distribution - News Distribution pricing for English releases (250, 500, 750, and 1,000) and Spanish releases (250, 500, 750, 1,000) yearly. • Social Media Enabled - provide pricing for video, photos, graphics, hyperlinks, attachments, and key word optimization. • Placement - What are the prices associated with placement and storage/archiving? • Targeting Capabilities/ Optional Service - Provide materials that list the different languages and the prices associated with targeting additional different languages over and above English and Spanish, i.e. ethnicities, geographic locations/distribution, designated market areas/ distribution, type of media, media focus, translation fees, proofing fees, and metrics? The price may be current catalog pricing or a price estimate. The submitted information will be used by the government to develop an estimate of the lifecycle cost of procuring the software. This information does not constitute nor shall it be considered a proposal to the government. Point of Contact The following government representatives may be contacted on matters relating to this RFI: Dawn L. Tucker, Contract Specialist at dawn.lenore.tucker@census.gov (301) 763-3470 Lizannette Velez, Contracting Officer at lizannette.velez@census.gov (301)763-1824 Submission of Information Responses shall be submitted to the above government representatives at the indicated email address no later than 11:59 p.m. (EST) on May 17, 2012. The submissions shall be submitted in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat formats.
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