N66001-21-Q-6467 Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source to Bloomberg Finance, LLP.

The Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific) hereby publicizes its intention to solicit, negotiate, and award a Commercial Firm-Fixed-Price FAR 13 purchase order on a non-competitive basis with Bloomberg Finance, LLP. This is a follow-on order to sole-source procurement N66001-16-P-7310. The requirement is for the purchase of the following service:

a.One seat subscription to Bloomberg Government. Bloomberg Government is an online source providing unbiased, credible, high-end analysis, and information on budgetary and congressional developments relevant to the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy. The Strategy and Decision Support Branch scans publications as part of its monthly environmental scanning process. The information is used as a source within briefs, papers and bios to inform the NIWC Pacific leadership term on current budgetary trends to, among other issues, plan accordingly. This ultimately provides the leadership team with walking around knowledge, situational awareness, and helps them in their decision-making process.

b.This source is unique in that it provides credible, impartial analysis of budgetary and congressional issues that impact the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy. No other source provides the holistic breadth and depth of information necessary to conduct legislative tracking, budget and appropriation information and analysis, congressional staff information, or district profiles necessary to conduct our analysis. Bloomberg provides helpful alerts when congressional bills come out, and expeditious reporting of congressional testimony. They often beat other sources with information, allowing us to promptly address queries from our own leadership team. The kind of information and analysis, and how it is organized and available for research, provides a level of detail not found in other open source items.

A determination by the government not to compete based upon responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the government. However, all responsible sources may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this synopsis, and must clearly show the firm's ability to be responsive without compromising quality. . The applicable NAICS Code is 519130 and the business size standard is 1,000 employees.

The point of contact for this announcement is James Davenport at james.r.davenport60.civ@us.navy.mil.

Be advised that the aforementioned information is anticipatory in nature and is not binding. Any comments, questions or concerns regarding this notice must be submitted via e-mail to james.davenport4@navy.mil by 7/23/2021 at 1300 PST. Questions by phone or fax will not be considered.
Awarded contract N66001-21-P-6467 to Bloomberg Finance LLP for 25843.54 on 2021-08-04.