Bloomberg_Sole_Source_J A_Redacted.pdf

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Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition for

10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), One source or limited sources.

I. Contracting Activity

Defense Security Services (DSS) Office of CI

27130 Telegraph Road Quantico, VA 22314

II. Description of the Action being approved

To award a purchase order for a Brand Name acquisition for Bloomberg Subscription service for the Intelligence Community.

Under the procurement, Bloomberg for the Intelligence Community will provide data and news from commerce into actionable information twenty four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year.

III. Description of Services

The proposed acquisition is to acquire licenses for Bloomberg for the Intelligence Community.

Bloomberg Finance L.P. will assist in gaining a fuller understanding of the interrelationships between companies, the people who run them and the governments of countries with which they do business.

Additionally, Bloomberg Finance L.P. will allow for the discovery of connections through physical assets, industry and company data, corporate filings, news, and personal profiles.

o Comprehensive information on more than 52,000 public companies and more than 500,000 private companies globally.

o Access industry and product-specific data across 90 industry groups.

o Construct professional profiles with career histories, business relationships, board affiliations and education in the Bloomberg people database with more than 2.9 million entries.

o Find global statistics, historical and current pricing and forecasts on commodities.

o Complete financials and transparency into analyst research and estimates; litigation summaries, Court Dockets; SEC, EDGAR, Foreign, Patent, Copy filings and Annual reports.

The estimated price for a single subscription is for two or more in a single location, based on one year subscriptions. DSS will purchase licenses, for an estimated total amount of

IV. Statutory Authority Permitting other than full and open competition

The statutory authority which permits other than full and open competition is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), One source or limited sources.

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V. Rationale Justifying Use of Cited Statutory Authority.

Bloomberg for the Intelligence Community is the sole designer, developer, and aggregator of transparent data that offers sophisticated tools to uncover, analyze and manage risks in the world of commerce and finance. Bloomberg is uniquely positioned to serve the Defense Security Service (DSS) Counterintelligence (CI) Directorate by linking data, news, market research and analytics in powerful ways to discover connections through supply chain analysis and interlocking corporate relationships.

From a single, all-inclusive platform, the Bloomberg Professional service provides DSS CI Directorate the capability to deliver enhanced intelligence and risk assessments.

VI. Efforts to Obtain Competition

The acquisition office posted a Sources Sought notice on FedBizOpps to determine if other companies are capable of providing a product or service capable of delivering the same services that DSS currently acquires through the sole source contract issued to Bloomberg Finance L.P. The notice outlined the desired capabilities and requested responses from businesses capable of meeting the requirement.

Responses were received . A technical review of each respondent’s capability statements found that none were able to provide the same services and capabilities that DSS currently receives through the use of the Bloomberg subscription service. Bloomberg Finance L.P. is the only provider that can offer the type of research service the DSS CI Directorate requires through one site;

otherwise, the directorate would have to contract with numerous vendors in order to have access to all the data and reports we require. Bloomberg Finance L.P.is the proprietary owner of the Bloomberg services.

There are no resellers of Bloomberg for the Intelligence Community. Therefore, it is determined that Bloomberg Finance L.P. is the only company capable of providing the service that meets the needs of

DSS.

VII. Price Reasonableness

The contracting officer has determined the anticipated cost to the Government of the services covered by this J&A will be fair and reasonable.

VIII. Actions to Remove Barriers to Future Competition.

For the reasons set forth in Paragraph 5, DSS has no plans at this time to compete future contacts for the types of services covered by this document. If another potential source emerges, DSS will assess whether competition for future requirements is feasible.

IX. Point of Contact

The technical point of contact for this J&A The contracting point of contact is .

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X. Certification and Approvals

Approved: