Bloomberg terminal access subscription

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) intends to award a sole source contract to Bloomberg Financial L.P. to renew current subscriptions to Bloomberg Professional Terminal Services, Bloomberg Anywhere and Bloomberg Disaster Recovery.  The contract will be for a one (1) year base period and four (4), one (1) year options to extend the period of performance.  The Bloomberg Professional Terminal Service, Bloomberg Anywhere, and Bloomberg Disaster Recovery provides, but is not limited to, direct access to Bloomberg information and data; access to tools necessary to program and auto-extract data for weekly reporting; real-time mapping to Bloomberg news; contact information of Bloomberg user financial market participants; direct connectivity to Bloomberg exclusive news items as well as agglomeration of multiple wire services used in production of daily AM and PM Agency reports; and, access to Bloomberg’s ancillary products, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg Law.  The anticipated contract will be awarded on a sole source basis pursuant to FAR 6.302-1 with the authority of 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1).  The information required by CFTC is available from only one responsible source and there is no known alternative source for the information required by CFTC which is only available through the identified Bloomberg services.

This notice does not constitute a solicitation for offers and, as such, no solicitation is available. However, the Government will consider responses from all responsible sources received by the response date and time identified in this synopsis.  Written responses must include sufficient information to establish capability to fulfill the requirement.  Any responses received will only be considered for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in lieu of the sole source contract described in this notice, and such determination shall be made at the sole discretion of CFTC.