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Incorporated by Reference: Rule 60A-1.045, F.A.C.

DESCRIPTION OF INTENDED

SINGLE SOURCE PURCHASE

(PUR 7776)

AGENCY: Florida Department of Corrections (FDC)

TITLE: Legal Research Services

Short description of the commodity or service desired: FDC is seeking to purchase Online Legal

Research Subscription Services for the Office of the General Counsel.

CONTACT

Name: Neva Crawford

Address: 501 South Calhoun Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399-2500

Telephone: (850) 717-3684

Email: Purchasing@fdc.myflorida.com

Internal tracking number, if any: FDC SS-24-009

Date posted: August 28, 2023 Last day for receipt of information: September 19, 2023

This description of commodities or contractual services intended for purchase from a single source is posted in accordance with Sections 120.57(3) and 287.057(3), Florida Statutes (F.S.), and will remain posted for a period of at least 15 business days.

Commodity or Contractual Service Required (commodity or United National Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC), manufacturer, model, and description, as appropriate):

80121609 - Legal Research Services

Quantity or Term (as appropriate):

34 months

Requestor (division, bureau, office, individual, as appropriate):

Office of the General Counsel

Patricia Turnage, Administrative Assistant III

Performance and/or Design Requirements (e.g. intended use, function or application, compatibility, requirements; reference to policy, rule, statute or other act of the Legislature, etc., as appropriate):

The Office of the General Counsel currently utilizes Westlaw online legal platform that provides services to the Department's attorneys. The online legal platform contains statues, codes, and case law and includes a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) learning platform, which offers

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Incorporated by Reference: Rule 60A-1.045, F.A.C.

attorneys CLEs with skill courses, events, programs, and updates on the law and State requirements for compliance.

Intended Single Source:

West Publishing Corporation and/or West, a Thomson Reuters business

610 Opperman Drive

Eagan, MN 55123

Estimated Dollar Amount:

$314,687.49 for 34 months

Justification for single source acquisition (what is necessary and unique about the product, service or source; steps taken to confirm unavailability of competition, as appropriate):

The intended Vendor, West Publishing Corporation dba West, a Thomson Reuters business, is the current provider of the materials for the FDC through a Sole Source Agreement.

Due to the Vendor being a properietary provider of the online research subscriptions services and the FDC's mandate to provide legal research materials, the FDC must enter into a Sole Source

Agreement with West Publishing Corporation dba West, a Thomson Reuters business.

Approved By (names & titles, as appropriate, e.g., requestor, requestor management, information systems, budget, purchasing):

Neva Crawford, Purchasing Analyst, Bureau of Procurement

Charlotte Shorter-Rumlin, Purchasing Manager, Bureau of Procurement

Alyssa Dillon, Strategic Sourcing Administrator, Bureau of Procurement

Patricia Turnage, Administrative Assistant III, Office of General Counsel

Gretchen Brantley, Chief Legal Counsel, Office of General Counsel

Eunice Arnold, Assistant Bureau Chief, Bureau of Procurement

J. Olyn Long, Purchasing Director, Office of Financial Management

Prospective vendors are requested to provide information regarding their ability to supply the commodities or contractual services described. If it is determined in writing by the agency, after reviewing any information received from prospective vendors, that the commodities or contractual services are available only from a single source, the agency shall provide notice of its intended decision to enter a single-source purchase contract in the manner specified in Rule 60A-

1.045, Florida Administrative Code, and section 120.57(3), F.S.