Notice of Intent

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) intends to make a sole source award to Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC for Standard & Poor's Ratings Direct Global Credit Portal. This subscription will provide PBGC with a continued source of credit quality, debt obligation, and financial news information for the PBGC insured inventory. No other subscription provides the unique business content that S & P provides such as a greater number of research reports and a higher volume of transactions than any other subscription service.

The period of performance is for one (1) 12-month base period and four (4) 12-month option periods.

This is not a Request for Quotation, but a notice of Intent. An RFQ will not be issued. Interested parties may submit their capability statements for the required services to Michelle Rosenbaum at
Rosenbaum.michelle@pbgc.gov no later than August 24, 2018, 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Responses received will be evaluated; however, a determination by the Government to compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation will not reimburse any costs connected with providing the capability information. Oral communications will not be accepted in response to this notice.

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