GuideStar Digital Subscriptions

The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements".
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to award a sole source Firm Fixed Price purchase order to GuideStar USA, Inc. located in Williamsburg, VA for their digitized database that contains information on charitable organizations. HUD requires access to GuideStar to acquire nonprofit organizational background information. This service will allow users to verify the names of board members, physical location of agencies, mission statements, financial information including IRS form 990 and other relevant information on an organization.
NO SOLICITATION OR REQUEST FOR QUOTATION (RFQ) IS AVAILABLE.
This announcement constitutes the only synopsis for this requirement; and is issued for notification purposes only. No known potential alternate sources exist which could satisfy this requirement. This Notice of Intent is not a Request for Quote/Proposal. Any interested party that believes it can meet this requirement described herein may identify themselves and must provide evidence of their capability to fulfill this requirement being requested by 10:00 AM EST on September 9, 2019.
Responses must be submitted in writing to Ms. Kimberly Campbell at Kimberly.M.Campbell@hud.gov and Ms. Chantel Adams at Chantel.A.Adams@hud.gov no later than the time and date noted above. Telephone responses and requests will not be accepted. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this effort is 519130 - Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals and the business size standard is 1,000 for number of employees.

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