SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- The Congressional Quarterly Roll Call Subscription - Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition (JFOC)
- Notice Date
- 9/23/2016
- Notice Type
- Justification and Approval (J&A)
- NAICS
- 511110
— Newspaper Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, Acquisitions Management, Contracts, & Grants (AMCG), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR), Department of Health and Human Services, 330 Independence Ave. SW, G640, Washington, District of Columbia, 20201, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20201
- Solicitation Number
- HHSO100201650009A
- Archive Date
- 10/23/2016
- Point of Contact
- Ashlie N. Evans,
- E-Mail Address
-
ashlie.evans@hhs.gov
(ashlie.evans@hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- HHSO100201650009A
- Award Date
- 9/23/2016
- Description
- Redacted Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition (JFOC) The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in support of the Office of Financial Planning and Analysis (OFPA) has a requirement for Congressional Quarterly Roll Call Inc's, subscription to an online service with multiple log-on accounts that provide ASPR/OFPA staff to track budget issues on Capitol Hill. This subscription should assist the staff with coverage of legislative process, including reporting from the House and Senate floors, subcommittee markups, and conference negotiations. The ASPR is aware of no other source that can provide the above. Therefore, it intends to make an award to Congressional Quarterly Roll Call, Inc., unless it is contacted by any vendor who believes they obtained similar technical expertise and can provide the same service. Vendors are invited to contact the Contract Specialist, Ashlie Evans (ashlie.evans@hhs.gov) no later than 12:00 PM ET, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 with an affirmative answer. The ASPR considers employee signatures to be Personal Protected Information, and therefore all employee signatures have been redacted. By posting this document, the Contract Specialist attests all appropriate signatures have been obtained. SOLE SOURCE JUSTIFICATION STATES THE FOLLOWING PART: The mission of the OFPA is to monitor, track, and to provide time critical responses to Congressional inquiry, public request for information, and to support the mission essential of the ASPR. CQ Roll Call Inc is the only media source that tracks every bill before Congress and provides same day coverage of open markups and committee hearings, making it easy to follow legislative actions, vote tallies and speeches before both the House and Senate. CQ Roll Call Inc provides more committee coverage than any other source. Its comprehensive profiles of every member of Congress provide background on the members, helpful contact information, committee assignments, vote studies, key votes and election results. CQ Roll Call is the only media source that that provides a comprehensive package of services necessary to track legislation, markups, committee hearings, votes, speeches, and other actions by the U.S. Congress. All other researched sources (Thomas, individual Senate and House members' websites) provide at least one database that includes similar information, but cannot offer the comprehensive and up to date requirement as CQ Roll Call. In addition, none of the other sources provide the tracking database that CQ Roll Call provides. The CQ Roll Call database is a mission critical information resource for OFPA. It is utilized daily by OFPA staff to track real-time congressional legislation, budget tracking, and speeches by members of Congress that impact APR/OFPA mission requirements and decision-making. The program office and contracting office conducted market research and was unable to identify a product or vendor, other than Congressional Quarterly Roll Call that could provide Online legislative tracking and support that meets the agencies requirement.
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- Record
- SN04286150-W 20160925/160923235024-648d6fdb1835fa7a1310cb443bb72729 (fbodaily.com)
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