Sources Sought Notice- FY20 Trial Courtroom Support.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

This is a Sources Sought Notice only. This is not intent to solicit proposals.

Contracting Office Address:

Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Acquisitions 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549

Requirement: Trial Courtroom Support Services

NAICS: 541199 – All Other Legal Services

PSC: R418 – Support-Professional-Legal

Small Business Set-aside: 100% Small Business (SB)

Description: This Notice is issued solely for informational, market research, and planning purposes only. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. Respondents are advised that the United States (U.S.) Government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this notice. All costs associated with responding to this notice will be solely at the responding party's expense. Not responding to this notice does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if any is issued. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the U.S. Government to form a binding contract.

It is the responsibility of the interested parties to monitor the http://beta.sam.gov website for additional information related to this requirement. All responses must include company name, address, POC name, telephone number, DUNS number, cage code, Tax ID number, and Business size. The Government may only provide a response confirming receipt of the information. No telephonic responses will be accepted. All responses to this notice shall be by email to the Contract Specialist: Selina F. E. Banfield at BanfieldS@sec.gov using “Response to Sources Sought Notice – FY20 Trial Courtroom Support” in the subject line no later than 3:00PM EST on Wednesday, March 25, 2020.

Responses shall be limited to Small Businesses who are interested and possess Corporate Experience as it relates to Trial Courtroom Support Services related to federal securities laws, as described herein.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC), Division of Enforcement, prosecutes the SEC's civil suits in the federal courts as well as its administrative proceedings. In civil suits, the SEC seeks injunctions, which are orders that prohibit future violations. A person who violates an injunction is subject to fines or imprisonment for contempt. In addition, the SEC often seeks civil money penalties and the disgorgement of illegal profits mission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.

Trial Courtroom Support at the SEC was initiated in response to dramatic change in the amount and types of cases falling under SEC jurisdiction. The number of full time SEC attorney and support staff is insufficient to handle investigations and litigation with thousands of pages of evidence located nationwide involving hundreds of parties. The size and complexity of these cases dictate the need for additional support services.

Additional information about the SEC is available at http://www.SEC.gov.

The objective of this requirement is to obtain professional non-personal services to support pre-trial and trial courtroom efforts. For the majority of this work it is expected that the Contractor will support these efforts off-site, and on occasion at SEC sites throughout the nation, that the work will require quick start-up by the contractor, will be of short duration, will not require permanent SEC work spaces, and the Contractor employees will be escorted on a short-term basis by an SEC employee for the duration of their time in the SEC spaces. If the SEC requires Contractor Personnel have an SEC badge, or sit in SEC spaces and access SEC Information Technology (IT), then the related sections of this requirement shall be adhered to.

The primary users of these services are expected to be the Division of Enforcement, but other Divisions and Offices of the SEC are authorized to use the services. The SEC is comprised of the Home Office (Washington, DC), and 11 Regional Offices. A list of the SEC offices and their addresses is provided online at https://www.sec.gov/page/sec-regional-offices.

The Contractor shall provide professional non-personal pre-trial and trial courtroom support services to the SEC, including demonstrative exhibit preparation, courtroom presentation assistance, audio/visual services, personal computer (PC) support, graphics support, in-courtroom support, providing equipment and furniture for a “War Room” at off-site locations, and performing quality control for a medium- to large sized, high complexity trials ranging in duration from 1-6 weeks and may in some circumstances exceed 6 weeks.

Services rendered against the contemplated contract include, but are not limited to the following:

1- Pre-trial Performance: Contractor will be required to provide and/or set up all equipment (laptops, all-in-one copiers, printers, scanners, desks, and chairs) in war-room or courtroom when required. Additional, provide laptops loaded with exhibit operating and display software, load exhibits, rehearse sequence with SEC trial team.

2- Courtroom Performance During Court: Operate laptops to display quality exhibits.

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3- Courtroom Performance After Court: Revise exhibits or their sequence, as specified by the SEC trial attorney.

4- Post-trial Performance: Return war-room and courtroom equipment and furniture.

It is important to note that the SEC cases are directly tied to federal securities laws. As such, the SEC is ONLY seeking sources who are interested and have related experience in supporting federal securities law cases.