Notification of the SECs Intent to Award a Single Source Purchase Order to Mergent

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to award a sole source contract for web access to historical fixed-income securities data for corporate users to Mergent Inc., 580 Kingsley Park Drive, Fort Mill, SC 29715. The base period of performance will be March 14, 2016 to March 13, 2017. The contract will have a base period with four option years and will result in a firm fixed price purchase order. The SEC requires a service that provides historical fixed-income securities data for corporate issuers, on a web-accessible research platform that enables the data to be retrieved and analyzed. The historical range of the data shall date back at least 10 years. The data shall include issue and issuer characteristics as well as post-issuance information.

Due to exclusive licensing agreements the Government intends to solicit only one source using simplified acquisition procedures in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b). Interested organizations may submit their capability statements and qualifications for the provision of this requirement. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct future competitive procurements. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. No solicitation or additional information will be made available with regard to this sole source notice.