Notice of Intent to Sole Source

Notice of Intent to Sole Source

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to award a sole source contract to SP Global Market Intelligence LLC, located at 55 Water Street, 40th Floor, New York, NY 10041-0004, under the authority of FAR 13.106(b)(1) Only One Reasonable Source.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Office of Risk Management and Regulatory Affairs (ORMRA) apart from its involvement in single family and multifamily risk assessment and risk scoring, the Office of Risk Management and Regulatory Affairs, located in the Office of Finance and Budget in the Office of Housing, ORMRA: is responsible for the risk assessment of FWD-insured and-assisted single family and multifamily properties. Economic, financial and mortgage data is needed to support this function. A comprehensive data service is needed to accomplish HUD's Strategic Plan of FHA loan performance analysis and loan scoring responsibilities, and the new Single-Family Insurance Reform Initiatives.

The subscription provides for annual access to web-based platform that provides financial information and offers cash flow engines and prepayment models for FHA to run portfolio to assess risk. Platforms will serve as a single source for a powerful array of financial data, analytics and research. The web-based platform needs to combine deep information on companies, markets and people worldwide with robust tools for analysis, idea generation and workflow management. The database subscription based access of key data series that includes the most recent and historical aggregate series from Annual Origination Summation, Annual Report on Multifamily Lending, Quarterly Mortgage Bankers Origination Index, Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding and Loan Maturity Volumes reports. Data is updated as new series are released.

The period of performance is from July 13, 2018 through July 12, 2019. The NAICS Code is 519130 Internet Publishing & Broadcasting & Web Services Portals, the size standard is 1000 employees. This notice is not a request for competitive quotations.

However, any firm that believes it can meet these requirements may submit a written response via email to Carmen Calloway at the email addresses below by 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST) by April 26, 2018. Supporting evidence must be furnished in sufficient detail to demonstrate the ability to comply with the above requirement. Information received will be considered; however, a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. If no responses are received, HUD will proceed with the sole source award to SP Global Market Intelligence LLC. The anticipated award date of this requirement is around July 1, 2018. No collect calls will be accepted. If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please contact: Carmen.L.Calloway@hud.gov