NOTICE_OF_INTENT_TO_AWARD_A_GSA_ORDER_FOR_SOLE_SOURCE_SUBSCRIPTIONS.docx

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE SUBSCRIPTIONS

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to award a single competitive GSA order for subscription agent services. The requirement is for a contractor to manage and provide access to HUD for online and hard copy subscriptions as identified in the list contained herein.

The competitive requirement will be made under the GSA SIN 736 1 Administrative Support and Clerical Operations and NAICS code 561110.

The subscription agent services order will consist of a 12-month base year plus four 12-month option years. According to preliminary market research conducted, the listed subscriptions below are the sole providers of subscriptions that contains the most complete data and tools for analyzing the multi-family housing market nationwide. These data and research products will be used by HUD’s field economists in the Economic and Market Analysis Division in their ongoing studies of local housing market conditions by providing much needed market data, particularly relating to residential housing construction information.

These are unique online tools that allow the user access to various housing related data, pipeline analytics and pipeline residential data by geographic area throughout the country. The multi-family data included is at a level of coverage that provides a number of variables in many market areas for analysts to access and study. These subscriptions will allow HUD’s field economists to access the data they need for specific geographic areas across the country when they need it. In addition to providing housing related pipeline data, the subscription also provides data analytics, pipeline residential data, and data by Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

SUBSCRIPTION LIST

Minimum Need: HUD needs: data on apartment occupancy (historical and current occupancy rates), average rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants), effective rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants), number of properties and number of units. Data can be sorted by year, age-restriction, income, and submarket. This includes apartment data for multiple markets in Texas, Florida, and several other states

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy rate) trends in the Seattle metropolitan area including submarket analysis and comparisons by apartments by Class: A, B or C. Seattle metropolitan area rental market analysis for apartments including Class A, B and C. The subscription includes a feature that allows the user to define submarket area to analyze rent and vacancy trends by unit type.

Minimum Need: Detailed description of 20+ unit apartments under construction, in planning or recently completed. Includes maps displaying apartment complexes built since 2013 and what will arrive on the market through 2017 for King, Snohomish and Pierce counties. Tables describing the existing inventory by submarket for each of these counties are also provided. For the Seattle area rental market research.

Minimum Need: Apartment data for select communities, including rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupant) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy rates), and sorted according to market-rate, age-restricted, student and construction status, as described below. Apartment data for Boulder, Denver, Ft. Collins, and Greeley metropolitan areas (it displays as Denver and Ft. Collins area subscriptions)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupant) , occupancy (historical and current occupancy rate), absorption, inventory, sales and construction by affordable, market-rate and student-targeted populations. RealData apartment data for Phoenix, AZ.

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupant), occupancy (historical and current occupancy rates), absorption, inventory, sales and construction by affordable, market-rate and student-targeted populations. RealData apartment data for Tucson, AZ.

Minimum Needs: Detailed description of 20+ unit apartment occupancy (historical and current occupancy rate) trends for the existing inventory in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties including Class A, B and C buildings. Allows user to create custom reports at the neighborhood level of geography by unit type and age. Seattle area rental market data.

Minimum Needs: Detailed occupancy (historical and current occupancy rate data) and rent rate (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) for market areas across the country. Apartment market data by market area.

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Needs: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Asheville, NC

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Needs: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Charleston, SC

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Needs: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Charlotte, NC

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Needs: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Chattanooga, TN

Report (Print and Online Edition)

Minimum Needs: Rental market data for Washington DC Metro area, including occupancy rates (historical and current occupancy rate) and concessions by construction type and absorption rates for individual properties for both market rate and Low Income Housing Tax Credit properties. Washington, DC metropolitan area apartment data

Minimum Needs: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data for Denver area rental markets, by submarket. As described in f., below, this is used as a “check” for when reviewed market studies are performed by Real Data. Colorado Springs metro area apartment vacancy and rent survey

Report and Source (CD-ROM Edition)

Minimum Needs: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Columbia, SC

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data for Denver area rental markets, by submarket. As described in f., below, this is used as a “check” for when reviewed market studies are performed by Real Data. Denver metropolitan area apartment vacancy and rent survey.

Report

Minimum Need: Data on downtown Chicago apartment and condominium markets, by submarket and class (Class A, B and C), as well as conversions (to and from renter occupancy) and data on rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy rates) as well as absorption and pipeline (list of projects currently underway) reports. Chicago multifamily research report – both apartments and condominiums, including sales trends and conversion data (apartment to condominium and condominium to apartment).

And Source (CD-ROM Edition)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Gainesville, FL

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Nashville, TN

Apt Market Report and Source (CD-ROM Edition)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Greensboro Winston-Salem, NC

Apartment Market and Source (CD-ROM Edition)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Greenville Spartanburg, SC

Apartment Market and Source (CD-ROM Edition)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Jacksonville, FL

Minimum Need: Occupancy (current and historical occupancy rate), average monthly rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) by bedroom size, and rent concession data for MSAs across the country. Apartment market data.

Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Myrtle Beach, SC

Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Nashville, TN

Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Orlando, FL

Minimum Need: Summary forecast and description of retail sales, construction and real estate with a focus on the Puget Sound area. This publication includes a Regional Outlook for the Puget Sound Region with a two-year forecast of employment, personal income, consumer prices, housing permits, population and net migration. Seattle area economic and demographic research.

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Raleigh-Durham,, NC

California Membership

Minimum Need: Northern California area single-family and rental market analysis, including employment statistics, housing demand forecasts, building permit data, home price analysis by new and existing homes by county, and apartment occupancy (historical and current occupancy rate) and rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) rate information.

Northern California area single-family and rental market analysis

California Membership

Minimum Need: Southern California area single-family and rental market analysis, including employment statistics, housing demand forecasts, building permit data, home price analysis by new and existing homes by county, and apartment occupancy (historical and current occupancy rates) and rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) rate information.

Southern California area single-family and rental market analysis

Minimum Need: Apartment market data, including rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants), occupancy (historical and current occupancy rate), pipeline (list of projects currently underway), completions and conversions (to or from rental occupancy) data for multiple market areas and submarkets. Reis, Inc., Subscriber Edition – Rental market data by market area.

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Richmond rental market data including occupancy (historical and current occupancy rates) and rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupant) by project name and type, location, submarkets and other property-specific variables for both market rate and Low Income Housing Tax Credit properties. Richmond, VA metropolitan area apartment data.

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Roanoke VA apartment market data including average rents (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) by bedroom size, occupancy data (historical and current occupancy rates), by submarket and pipeline (list of projects currently underway) reports for both market rate and Low Income Housing Tax Credit properties. Roanoke, VA metropolitan area apartment data.

(Email Edition)

Minimum Need: Occupancy rate data (historical and current occupancy data) for selected market areas, including project lists by year built and breakouts for market rate, affordable, elderly and student housing. Apartment data for Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery, AL

(Email Edition)

Minimum Need: Occupancy data (historical and current occupancy data) for selected market areas, including project lists by year built and breakouts for market rate, affordable, elderly and student housing. Apartment data for Florida Panhandle

(Email Edition)

Minimum Need: Occupancy data (historical and current occupancy data) for selected market areas, including project lists by year built and breakouts for market rate, affordable, elderly and student housing. Apartment data for Tuscaloosa, AL

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Savannah, GA

(Email Edition)

Minimum Need: Apartment data for select communities, including rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupant) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy rates), and sorted according to market-rate, age-restricted, student and construction status, as described below. Apartment data for Colorado Springs metropolitan area

(Email Edition)

Minimum Need: Apartment data for select communities, including rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupant) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy rates), and sorted according to market-rate, age-restricted, student and construction status, as described below. Apartment data for Boulder, Denver, Ft. Collins, and Greeley metropolitan areas (it displays as Denver and Ft. Collins area subscriptions).

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing.

Apartment data for Tallahassee, FL

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy (historical and current occupancy data) data by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing.

Apartment data for Tampa Bay, FL

Minimum Need: Sales and Rental market data for every county in the state of Washington. The report also includes building permit data and an Housing Affordability index by county. The apartment market report includes a narrative summary of market trends, the composition of the apartment market by number of bedrooms for selected counties and a narrative discussion trends for each unit type. Washington State rental market data by county.

Report and Source (CD-ROM)

Minimum Need: Rent (historical and current rent amounts being paid by occupants) and occupancy data (historical and current occupancy data) by market area, submarket and at the individual property level. Historic data. Includes data for affordable, market-rate and student housing. Apartment data for Wilmington, NC

THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. This notice of intent to sole source individual subscriptions is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses in respect to the brand name items listed above that are received no later than September 8, 2014, 10:00 AM CST. Responses shall be submitted to Brian.E.Sonnier@hud.gov and Cathy.J.Baker@hud.gov. Responses shall include, at a minimum, the following information:

1. The name of your company;

2. POC name and contact information;

3. The specific product(s) that your company offers that fulfills the same function as the items to be included on this order or evidence that your company is capable of providing a renewal for the specific items mentioned above; and

4. A description of that product(s) and its overall capabilities.

5. The subject line of the email shall state “APP-R-2014-041: Subscription Agent Services – Subscription Description” or it will be deleted as junk mail.

It is your responsibility to demonstrate how your product(s) is capable of providing the same functionality that exists with the subscriptions mentioned above. The Government will not seek additional information from your company if you fail to provide sufficient evidence of having a product capable of meeting the Government's needs.