Customized On-line Wall Street Journal Subscription

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to award a sole source Firm Fixed-Price contract to Dow Jones & Company, on or about August 31, 2015. This solicitation for commercial items is prepared in accordance with FAR subpart 12. The full text of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) can be accessed on the internet at http://www.arnet.gov/far. Any and all interested parties may respond to this solicitation. The NAICS Code is 511120. The contract period of performance is from September 1, 2015 through August 31, 2020. The contract period of performance will consist of one (1) base year with four (4) 12 month Option Periods. The IRS has a need for a contractor to provide service wide access to the Wall Street Journal through a web based source. IRS will purchase services for concurrent use by approximately 3500 IRS employees (which can be increased or decreased at negotiated intervals). Periodic searching of the Wall Street Journal will be conducted by a wide range of IRS employees. Usage levels will vary throughout the year depending on issues and workload. Monthly user and/or unique identifier list of employees that access the Wall Street Journal online site is required. Universal access with a generic IRS password rather than individual passwords issued to each user, though the use of a link on a web page that activates an Active-ServerPage (ASP) script is required. The ASP script will take the user to the requested database via a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 125 bit encrypted session and embeds the generic ID and password automatically on his/her behalf. Users will never see the login password submitted on their behalf behind the scenes.