INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - Complete USA National Business Point-level Database licenses

INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE
National Business Location Point-level Database License/ESRI, Inc.

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (OCPO)/Chicago Contracting Operations Branch, on behalf of the Office of Policy, Development, and Research (PD&R) intends to issue a firm-fixed-price purchase order to ESRI, Inc. (DUNS 06-313-4175) to obtain a license for ESRI's National Business Location Point-level Database.

PD&R has a need to strengthen its information sharing and dissemination function through the use of quality data and analytic tools. The purpose of issuing a purchase order is to integrate ESRI's point-level database into the data infrastructure for use by PD&R staff. The dataset provides detailed information about the demographic makeup of various populations, their lifestyles and purchasing habits, as well as information about businesses for any given market area.

ESRI's National Business Location Point-level Database is a web-based tool that combines advanced GIS technology with extensive demographic, consumer, and business data for the entire United States, and is offered at point level.

Below is a complete listing of the information that is included in the National Business Location Point-Level Dataset:
CONAME Company Name
ADDR Company Address
CITY16 City
STATE State Abbreviation
STATE_NAME State Name
ZIP 5-Digit ZIP Code
ZIP4 ZIP+4 Code
SIC Primary SIC
NAICS_EXT 8-Digit NAICS Code
SALES_VOL Estimated Sales Volume
HDBRCH Business Status code
NUMBER_EMP Number of Employees (Actual)
EMPSIZ Employee Size Code
FRNCOD Franchise Code
SQFT Square Footage Code
MATCH_CODE ESRI Geocoder Match Code
LOCNUM Location Number (Unique Number)
LONGITUDE Longitude
LATITUDE Latitude

NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE. The government will not consider a request for more information, or a copy of the solicitation as an affirmative response to this Special Notice. The government WILL NOT accept telephone responses or inquiries to this Special Notice.\

Interested parties may identify their interest and capability, by submitting a capability statement and qualifications for this requirement, or respond to quotations no later than 2:00pm, CST, on March 13, 2013. You must submit responses via email to gene.h.jackson@hud.gov, ATTN: Gene H. Jackson. This notice is not a request for competitive quotations. All quotations received after the date of publication of this notice and prior to 2:00pm, CST, on March 13, 2013, will be considered by the government for future solicitations. A determination not to compete this proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. The government will award the purchase order according to FAR Part 13. If the government doesn't receive a written response that clearly demonstrates an ability to meet all requirements, is more advantageous to the government, and is received by the aforementioned deadline, HUD shall make a sole-source award to ESRI.