Amended MIDAS JA Final Redacted_Redacted.pdf

liabilities thereunder. As Tradeworx’s successor, MayStreet is solely qualified to meet this requirement and, the unique qualifications that applied to this initial procurement, remain relevant today.

5. Efforts to Ensure that Offers are Solicited from as Many Potential Sources as Practicable:

In effort to ensure all potential sources are aware of this effort, this J&A amendment will be posted to Beta.Sam.gov (Formerly Federal Business Opportunities). The original J&A demonstrated the effort to solicit as many sources practicable by addressing the posting of a Request for Information (RFI) to Federal Business Opportunities. After review of the responses to RFI, it was determined that none of the respondents met the requirement for having existing or similar services for providing time stamped historic and future direct feed and SIP feed messages. None were able to demonstrate that they were currently able to provide the required historic market data dating to 2008, with the required time stamp and granularity functionality.

6. Determination by the Contracting Officer that the Anticipated Cost to the Government will be Fair and Reasonable:

The Contracting Officer by signature on this document hereby determines that the cost to the Government will be fair and reasonable. The proposed methods to determine pricing fair and reasonableness may include, but not limited to, the following:

a. Proposal Analysis Techniques in accordance with FAR 15.404-1(b)

b. Request other than cost and pricing data by requiring that the data submitted by the offeror include, at a minimum, appropriate data on the prices at which the same item or similar items have previously been sold.

7. Description of Market Research Conducted and Results or Statement of the Reasons Market Research was not Conducted:

Although MayStreet, LLC holds unique qualifications and intellectual property rights to support this J&A amendment, market research is ongoing to determine whether other solutions exist that can meet the MIDAS requirement.

8. Other Supporting Facts:

N/A

9. A Listing of the Sources, if any That Expressed, in Writing an Interest in the Acquisition:

The original sources that expressed interested are as follows:

Accenture Federal Services LLC Carahsoft Technologies DH Technologies Distributed Computing System Solutions Provider Explain Data Inc.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

(FINRA) IBM

Invent E Solutions DBA Ayvan Partners JTEK Solutions Kx Systems

HEAD OF THE CONTRACTING ACTIVITY

Justification Approved:

Date Head of Contracting Agency