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SINGLE SOURCE DETERMINATION USING

SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES (SAP)

FOR AN ACTION NOT EXCEEDING THE SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD

(AUTHORITY: FAR 13.106-1(b)(1))

Purchase Request Number: 0502010EQ0133

1. Agency and contracting activity. Small Business Administration, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Acquisitions Directorate, in support of the Office of Credit Risk Management (OCRM) and the Office of Performance Systems Management (OPSM).

2. Description of supplies or services required to meet agency needs (including the estimated value). The SBA requires assistance with loan, lender and portfolio monitoring, oversight, and credit risk management services on the 7(a) and 504 loan portfolios and participating industry lenders. These services must be consistent with best practices utilized by commercial lending industry and bank regulators for credit risk management including early warning indicators of possible changes in portfolio performance trends. This requirement will apply credit risk prediction and evaluation to the 7(a) and 504 loan portfolios enabling the SBA to predict and evaluate the risk of individual SBA participants and lenders to identify high risk lenders with two (7(a) and 504) Agency-guaranteed loan programs. This requirement will also provide credit risk and program management support. The total estimated cost of this requirement is , with available under GSA and in open market. The open market items are Bankruptcy Filing Chapter, D&B File Date, Bankruptcy Date and History Indicator data within the reports. The period of performance includes a base year of twelve months and a six-month option period.

3. Identification of the single source or the brand name to be solicited.

Dun & Bradstreet 11710 Plaza Drive Suite 900 Reston, Virginia 20190

(703) 807-5068 GSA Contract Number GS00F0022DA

4. Supporting rationale. Only one source or brand name is reasonably available as detailed below:

Other – Logical follow-on to competed acquisition

Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), in partnership with the SBA, conceptualized, created and implemented the Loan and Lender Monitoring System (L/LMS). The system was designed to meet the requirements of program statutes and leverage commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products and industry best practice risk management systems to all the SBA to monitor loan- and lender-level risk and focus oversight on the riskiest lenders. By employing the same COTS risk scores used by many of the lenders to manage the portfolios, and sharing these score ranges and other data with lenders through a Lender Portal, it promotes transparency, increases the integrity and ensures confidence in its stewardship of the 7(a) and 504 loan programs. During the previous contract (D16PD00283) with Dun & Bradstreet, the system was evolved to score loans with precision, lender risk is rated with accuracy for purchases and holistically using industry and regulatory best practices, and portfolio risk is proactively monitored and analyzed.

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The Department of the Interior, through an assisted acquisition for the SBA, awarded task order D16PD00283 to Dun & Bradstreet as a result of a competed solicitation. D16PD00283 had an original period of performance, to include options, until March 6, 2021 and a potential end date of September 6, 2021 if the Option to Extend Services was utilized. The total amount of the award was for the base plus four, twelve-month option periods with an additional potential amount of for the Option to Extend Services bringing the potential amount of the order to . To date, has been awarded leaving a total of left under the contract. D16PD00283 has been modified to shorten the period of performance to end on September 7, 2020 as SBA has opted to award this effort in-house. Although this requirement will result in a new SBA-awarded order, this requirement was originally solicited, competed and awarded via D16PD00283 for the timeframe herein.

5. Market Research.

Market research was conducted by issuing a Request for Information (RFI) on eBuy under RFQ ID: RFQ1415971 under the Special Identification Number 00CORP – 520 5 to the thirty schedule contract holders on February 26, 2020, with a response date of March 16, 2020.

Five contract holders responded to the RFI: Deval, LLC; Dun & Bradstreet; Deloitte;

TrueNorth, LLC;. and TransUnion. However, since the COVID-19 National Emergency which was declared on March 13, 2020, created a strain on SBA resources; the SBA’s technical experts have decided to use this short-term sole source award to ensure continuity of services until a competition can be conducted which is anticipated within the next year.