Computer Assisted Legal Research 4 (CALR 4)

The Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Justice Management Division established Computer Assisted Legal Research 4 (CALR 4), a master IDIQ for online computerized access to legal, news, financial, public record, dockets, and related information databases with full-text search and retrieval capability, on April 1, 2012; ordering closed March 31, 2019. The vehicle is no longer active and does not accept new task orders.

The master IDIQ has been succeeded by Computer Assisted Legal Research 5, which was awarded on September 30, 2019. This vehicle is a continuation of Computer Assisted Legal Research 3 and followed the standard CALR contract family progression at DOJ.

The vehicle generated 123 task orders over its active ordering period, with peak annual activity in 2015 (23 orders) declining steadily through 2019 (1 order). The combined potential value across all task orders was $96.9 million, with $94.7 million obligated as of the last task order award in July 2019—representing 98% consumption of available value. Task-order values ranged widely, from under $5 thousand to multi-million-dollar arrangements; representative orders included $15.7 million, $15.1 million, $6.9 million, and $6.6 million ceiling values.

West Publishing Corporation and Relx Inc. were the only two prime contractors. West held 22 orders with $57.7 million in combined potential value, while Relx held 101 orders with $39.1 million combined potential value. By order count, Relx dominated; by dollar value, West held the larger share. All 123 task orders were unrestricted (no set-aside designations).

The Department of Justice Justice Management Division placed 106 orders valued at $91.6 million, capturing over 95 percent of vehicle activity. The U.S. Trustee Program issued 16 orders for $5.2 million, and the FBI Kailua Kona Field Office issued a single order valued at $19 thousand.

Place of performance spanned CONUS, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Mariana Islands, with a subset of DOJ users stationed in foreign countries in South America and Europe also accessing the systems.

The purpose of this master IDIQ is the on-line computerized access to complete legal, news, financial, public record, dockets and related information databases such as federal and state court cases, administrative decisions, statutes, regulations, legal treatises, legislative histories, and expert witness data with full-text search and retrieval capability (both within individual databases and across databases) and related support services for the DOJ on an unlimited access basis.