SECHQ1-15-R-0005.pdf

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is issuing this solicitation to award an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for serial subscription services. The SEC intends to award the first Task Order for this ID/IQ at base award. The following pages of this solicitation contain specifications, contract clauses and solicitation provisions and instructions.

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00001 Year 1

The contractor shall provide serial subscriptions in accordance with the Statement of Work. Task

Orders issued against this ID/IQ will obligate funding and will include a Subscription List and fixed price for each order.

00002 Year 2

The contractor shall provide serial subscriptions in accordance with the Statement of Work. Task

Orders issued against this ID/IQ will obligate funding and will include a Subscription List and fixed price for each order.

00003 Year 3

The contractor shall provide serial subscriptions in accordance with the Statement of Work. Task

Orders issued against this ID/IQ will obligate funding and will include a Subscription List and fixed price for each order.

00004 Year 4

The contractor shall provide serial subscriptions in accordance with the Statement of Work. Task

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Orders issued against this ID/IQ will obligate funding and will include a Subscription List and fixed price for each order.

00005 Year 5

The contractor shall provide serial subscriptions in accordance with the Statement of Work. Task

Orders issued against this ID/IQ will obligate funding and will include a Subscription List and fixed price for each order.

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Section C – Contract Clauses

Deliveries or Performance

SEC Contract Clauses

Contract Administration Data

5001.00 Contract Administration (Aug 2011)

This contract/delivery order will be administered by the SEC's Office of Acquisitions. All inquiries should be directed to the following address:

Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Acquisitions Attn: Jeremy Garrett Phone: 202-551-7472 Email: garrettj@sec.gov 100 F Street, NE Washington, DC 20549

5003.00 Submission of Invoices (April 2012)

The Securities and Exchange Commission accepts only electronic/e-mail invoices.

Invoices shall be submitted on a submission of deliverable basis.

Contractors should submit invoices in accordance with the SEC Prompt Payment Provision of the contract. Contractors are cautioned against submitting an invoice prior to goods and services being received/accepted. Invoices submitted prematurely may be rejected.

Electronic/e-mail Invoice Instructions:

Invoices must be in PDF Format and may not exceed 10MB Subject Line: Company name and the invoice number e-mail Message:

Company logo or letterhead Company name and payment address Company point of contact (POC) for the invoice with phone and e-mail Invoice Number SEC Contract or Order number

SEC COR

For supplies: contract line item number, item description, quantity delivered, and unit and extended price, per Section B CLIN structure

For services: contract line item number, item description, period of performance and associated costs, per Section B, contract line item, CLIN, structure

Shipping and handling charges, if applicable

Clearly mark duplicates of previous invoice submissions with "DUPLICATE"

Clearly mark the final invoice with "FINAL INVOICE"

Attach the invoice and any supporting documents in a secure tamper-proof or tamper-resistant format compatible with Adobe Acrobat.

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Electronic signatures are acceptable in scanned documents. Each page of a document must be clearly marked with information identifying it with the company, the contract, the invoice, and any other information required by the contract.

E-mail invoices to the following address: 9-AMC-AMZ-SEC-Invoices@faa.gov

5004.00 Appointment of Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) (Nov 2012) The Contracting Officer (CO) shall appoint, in writing, a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) and, if possible, an Alternate COR for this award. The COR and Alternate COR shall have a current Federal Acquisition Certification for CORs (FAC-COR) at the appropriate certification level for the contract. A COR may serve on a contract requiring certification at or below his/her level, but not on one requiring a higher level. The CO shall provide the Contractor with a copy of the COR appointment letter(s). The COR may not re-delegate his or her authority; only the CO has this authority.

The COR will manage the contract in coordination with the CO and within the terms of the contract and the boundaries of a COR’s duties as outlined in the document “Instructions for CORs and Their Supervisors.” The COR’s responsibilities include reviewing invoices and charges by the Contractor and informing the CO of areas where exceptions are taken. If this is an award for services and contractor personnel are brought on-site to SEC facilities, the COR must adhere to SECR 10-24.

Only the CO has the authority to change the terms and conditions of this contract. The COR may request a contract modification, but the CO will make the final determination. The COR may not agree to or issue a change to the contract terms and conditions. In the event the Contractor effects changes to the contract at the direction of any person other than the CO, the changes will be considered to have been made without any authority and no adjustments will be made to the contract.

6002.00 Type of Contract (Mar 2009)

The contract type for this award is Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ). Orders awarded against this contract shall be Firm Fixed Price.

6003.00 Representations and Certifications (Mar 2009)

The Contractor’s completed Representations, Certifications, and Other Statements of Offerors or Respondents is incorporated herein by reference.

6010.04 Contractor Responsibilities/Standards of Conduct (Jul 2013)

The Contractor shall furnish all managerial, supervisory, and personnel to successfully, effectively, and efficiently accomplish all work required by this contract. Contractor personnel are employees of the Contractor and under its administrative control and supervision. Contractor personnel are not employees of the Government.

The Contractor shall select, supervise and exercise control and direction over its employees under this contract. The SEC will not exercise any supervision over the Contractor's employees, but may, in coordination with Contractor management, provide sufficient direction to contractor personnel to ensure that the purposes of the contract are met and the government's interests are protected.

Contractor shall be responsible for:

- Approving time cards of its employees,

- Approving leave requests of its employees,

- Performing performance evaluations of its employees

- Making hiring and firing decisions for its employees.

- Informing its employees that they are not employees of the SEC and have not received an appointment in the federal service.

- Informing its employees that they are not to accept direction from employees of the SEC beyond that required to accomplish the purposes of the Contract.

- Informing its employees that deliverables must be marked with employer's logo or other marking legend (as appropriate to the deliverable) and it must be removable if the SEC elects to use the deliverable as SEC materials. This applies to mailto:9-AMC-AMZ-SEC-Invoices@faa.gov

6 of 10 SECHQ1-15-R-0005 reports, slides, and other documents called out in the contract as deliverables.

- Informing its employees that the Contractor is responsible for approval of their time cards, leave requests and performance evaluations, and for hiring and firing decisions.

- Directing their employees to identify themselves in their communications (and in their work product as appropriate) as contractors rather than SEC or Federal employees, and ensuring that they in fact do so.

- Directing their employees to display their distinguishing badges or other visible identification of their status as contractors at meetings with government or outside personnel.

- Considering during their performance of the contract whether any actions they are taking would limit the ability of an SEC employee to exercise discretion on an inherently governmental function and bring such actions to the attention of the

COR.

The Contractor is accountable to the SEC for the actions of its personnel. The Contractor's employees, when on-site at SEC facilities under this contract, shall only engage in duties specified in the statement of work, task order or other work statement, and not in other business, or political, charitable or other duties. The Contractor shall not recruit on SEC premises or otherwise act to disrupt official SEC business. The Contractor shall be responsible when its employees are on site at the SEC for maintaining satisfactory standards of employee competency, conduct, appearance, and integrity, and shall be responsible for taking such disciplinary action with respect to its employees as may be necessary. Contractor employees are expected to adhere to standards of conduct that reflect credit on themselves, their employer, the SEC and the Federal Government.

6012.04 Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility (Mar 2011) Each Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) product or service furnished under this contract shall comply with the Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards (36 CFR 1194 ). If the Contracting Officer determines any furnished product or service is not in compliance with the contract, the Contracting Officer will promptly inform the Contractor in writing. The Contractor shall, without charge to the Government, repair or replace the non-compliant products or services within the period of time to be specified by the Government in writing. If such repair or replacement is not completed within the time specified, the Government shall have the following recourses:

The right to Termination of the contract, delivery or task order, purchase or line item without termination liabilities pursuant to the contract termination clauses; or

In the case of custom Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) being developed for the Government, the Government shall have the right to have any necessary changes made or repairs performed by itself or by another firm and the contractor shall reimburse the Government for any expenses incurred thereby.

For every EIT product or service accepted under this contract by the Government that does not comply with 36 CFR 1194, the contractor shall, at the discretion of the Government, make every effort to replace or upgrade it with a compliant equivalent product or service, if commercially available and cost neutral, on either the planned refresh cycle of the product or service, or on the contract renewal date, whichever shall occur first.

In the event of a modification(s) to this contract/order, which adds new EIT products and services or revises the type of, or specifications for, products and services the Contractor is to provide, including EIT deliverables such as electronic documents and reports, the Contracting Officer may require that the contractor provide an update of information provided in the solicitation to identify EIT compliance. Under any maintenance agreement, Contractor agrees to maintain compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for all EIT.

In order to comply with 36 CFR 1194 Section 41, the Contractor shall submit all soft copies (e.g., user manuals, product documentation, etc.) in a format that will be readable using assistive technology, (e.g., screen reader). All imbedded charts, graphs, pictures, etc., must be accessible and understandable using a screen reader.

http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/standards.htm#Subpart_b

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6014.00 Use of Contractor Data and/or Materials (Mar 2009)

The Contractor acknowledges and agrees to the following: The SEC anticipates using the data and/or materials to conduct analyses for use in reports, studies, memoranda, and presentations. The SEC anticipates the following types of situation where analyses based on underlying data may be made public: by the SEC itself (E.g., SEC rulemaking and/or analysis done as part of an inspection or enforcement action), by SEC staff where the SEC is directing or facilitating the publication (e.g., a staff study in response to a Congressional request), by SEC staff facilitating their own private publication where the Commission has not taken a position regarding the publication of the analysis(e.g., a research report to be submitted by the individual staff to an academic conference or journal), and a former employee of the SEC who has substantially completed the analysis while on staff and is facilitating his/her own private publication( e.g., a research report to be submitted to an academic conference or journal). In all of these situations, only “insubstantial amounts” of the licensed data and/or material would be made public and no raw data would be made public, the authors would agree to abide by all contractual terms and conditions, and as the owner/licensor of the data the Contractor would receive attribution and be cited as the data source. “Insubstantial amounts” means an amount that has no independent commercial value and could not be used as a substitute for the service or product or any part of it.

Applicable FAR Clauses

FAR 52.252-2 CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE (FEB 98) This contract incorporates one or more clauses by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. Also full text of a clause may be accessed electronically at this address: https://acquisition.gov/far/index.html

52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items (Dec 2014) 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial

Items (Dec 2014). In Section b, the following clauses apply: 52.203-6, 52.204-10, 52.204-15, 52.209-6, 52.209-9, 52.209-10, 52.219-6, 52.219-8, 52.219-13, 52.219-28, 52.222-3, 52.222-21, 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, 52.222-40, 52.223-18, 52.225-13, 52.232-33

52.216-18 Ordering (Oct 1995)

(a) Any supplies and services to be furnished under this contract shall be ordered by issuance of delivery orders or task orders by the individuals or activities designated in the Schedule. Such orders may be issued from Date of Award through 5 Years.

(b) All delivery orders or task orders are subject to the terms and conditions of this contract. In the event of conflict between a delivery order or task order and this contract, the contract shall control.

(c) If mailed, a delivery order or task order is considered “issued” when the Government deposits the order in the mail.

Orders may be issued orally, by facsimile, or by electronic commerce methods only if authorized in the Schedule.

52.216-19 Order Limitations (Oct 1995)

(a) Minimum order. When the Government requires supplies or services covered by this contract in an amount of less than $100.00 the Government is not obligated to purchase, nor is the Contractor obligated to furnish, those supplies or services under the contract.

(b) Maximum order. The Contractor is not obligated to honor—

(1) Any order for a single item in excess of $500,000.00;

(2) Any order for a combination of items in excess of $2,500,000.00; or

(3) A series of orders from the same ordering office within 30 days that together call for quantities exceeding the limitation in paragraph (b)(1) or (2) of this section.

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(c) If this is a requirements contract (i.e., includes the Requirements clause at subsection 52.216-21 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)), the Government is not required to order a part of any one requirement from the Contractor if that requirement exceeds the maximum-order limitations in paragraph (b) of this section.

(d) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, the Contractor shall honor any order exceeding the maximum order limitations in paragraph (b), unless that order (or orders) is returned to the ordering office within 7 days after issuance, with written notice stating the Contractor’s intent not to ship the item (or items) called for and the reasons.

Upon receiving this notice, the Government may acquire the supplies or services from another source.

52.216-22 Indefinite Quantity (Oct 1995)

(a) This is an indefinite-quantity contract for the supplies or services specified, and effective for the period stated, in the Schedule. The quantities of supplies and services specified in the Schedule are estimates only and are not purchased by this contract.

(b) Delivery or performance shall be made only as authorized by orders issued in accordance with the Ordering clause.

The Contractor shall furnish to the Government, when and if ordered, the supplies or services specified in the Schedule up to and including the quantity designated in the Schedule as the “maximum.” The Government shall order at least the quantity of supplies or services designated in the Schedule as the “minimum.”

(c) Except for any limitations on quantities in the Order Limitations clause or in the Schedule, there is no limit on the number of orders that may be issued. The Government may issue orders requiring delivery to multiple destinations or performance at multiple locations.

(d) Any order issued during the effective period of this contract and not completed within that period shall be completed by the Contractor within the time specified in the order. The contract shall govern the Contractor’s and Government’s rights and obligations with respect to that order to the same extent as if the order were completed during the contract’s effective period; provided, that the Contractor shall not be required to make any deliveries under this contract after 5 years after date of contract award.

52.216-27 Single or Multiple Awards (Oct 1995)

The Government may elect to award a single delivery order contract or task order contract or to award multiple delivery order contracts or task order contracts for the same or similar supplies or services to two or more sources under this solicitation.

52.217-8 Option to Extend Services (Nov 1999)

The Government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extension of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the Contractor within 7 days.

Section D – Attachment(s)

Attachment 1- Statement of Work (2 pages) Attachment 2 –Tax Liability Certification (1 page) (This certification is required for all companies that contract with the SEC and must be completed and returned with your company’s response to the RFQ).

Attachment 3 – Task Order 0001 Subscription List (Offerors shall provide a firm fixed price quote for this subscription list in accordance with the solicitation provisions below).

https://acquisition.gov/far/current/html/52_216.html#wp1115057

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Section E – Solicitation Provisions

General Information: The SEC is issuing this combined synopsis/solicitation to award an ID/IQ contract for serial subscription services. The SEC intends to award the first task order at base ID/IQ award. Below are solicitation instructions and provisions.

Solicitation Questions: All questions regarding this RFP must be submitted in writing via email to Jeremy Garrett at GarrettJ@sec.gov by no later than 5:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time on February 2, 2015. All questions received with the SEC’s response to each question will be posted publicly on FedBizOpps (www.fbo.gov).

Proposal Requirements and Submission: Offerors must provide a written technical proposal and a separate written price proposal. Proposals must be submitted via email to Jeremy Garrett at GarrettJ@sec.gov by no later than 5:00 P.M.

Eastern Standard Time on February 11, 2015.

Technical Proposal: Technical proposals shall describe the offeror’s approach for meeting all requirements of the Statement of Work (Attachment # 1) and compliance with the RFP contract clauses. Offerors shall also include two (2) Past Performance references for work performed on similar government contracts for serial subscription services within the last five (5) years. The Past Performance references shall include the government agency/client name, a brief description of the project, contract number, total contract value, and email and phone contact information for the customer Project Manager and/or Contracting Officer’s Representative. Technical proposals shall be limited to five (5) pages; past performances references are excluded from page limitation.

Price Proposal: The first page of the price proposal shall provide the Offeror’s Legal Business name, Dun and Bradstreet Number (DUNS), and Tax Identification Number (TIN). The price proposal shall propose the Offeror’s pricing terms for serial subscription services and shall clearly indicate if the offeror provides discounts from serial subscription list prices and if there are any service charges added to the list prices of serial subscriptions. The price proposal shall also include a firm fixed price for Attachment # 3 – Subscription List.

The firm fixed price for Attachment # 3 must provide the total price for all listed subscriptions, including any service charges. Offerer’s are encouraged to provide discounts from list prices whenever possible.

Note: The SEC anticipates issuing a Task Order for the subscriptions listed in Attachment # 3 at base ID/IQ award.

Additional applicable FAR provisions are as follows:

52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Items (Apr 2014)

52.212-2 Evaluation—Commercial Items (Oct 2014)

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror(s) whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers:

Technical Approach: The SEC will evaluate the offer’s proposed approach for achieving the work requirements.

Past Performance: The SEC will evaluate the offeror’s past performance for similar nature work performed over the past 5 years. The SEC reserves the right to evaluate work performed by the offeror that was not listed in the offeror’s technical proposal. Note: If the offeror does not have past performance information, the offeror shall receive a neutral rating for past performance.

mailto:GarrettJ@sec.gov http://www.fbo.gov/ mailto:GarrettJ@sec.gov

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Price: The SEC will evaluate the contractor’s proposed pricing for Attachment # 3. The SEC will also evaluate any proposed pricing terms including services charges and price discounts that are available from the offeror for serial subscription services.

Technical Approach, Past Performance and Price are all of equal importance. When combined, Technical Approach and Past Performance are more important than price.

(b) Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s).

(c) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party.

Before the offer’s specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award.

52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Items (Dec 2014)

52.216-27 Single or Multiple Awards (Oct 1995)

The Government may elect to award a single delivery order contract or task order contract or to award multiple delivery order contracts or task order contracts for the same or similar supplies or services to two or more sources under this solicitation.