Producer Price Index Data

Added: Nov 19, 2013 10:53 am NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE

The US Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics' Office of Price and Living Conditions/Division of Industrial Price and Price Index intends to award a sole source contract to RS Means Company, LLC, 700 Long Water Drive, Suite 102, Norwell, MA 02061-1624. The statutory authority permitting the acquisition of this requirement by other than full and open competition is 41 USC 254©(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, Only one responsible Source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirement. RS Means Inc. LLC provides the Producer Price Index program services and data to aid updating the industrial building models and samples used to calculate Producer Prices Index 236211 (PPIR236211). The scope of services and data covered by this requirement includes everything necessary to re-specify manufacturing and industrial building models for the four census regions (Northeast, South, Midwest and West and maintain continuous calculation of the producer price index report (PPIR). Even though this is a notice of intent to sole source, please feel free to submit a capability statement along with your proposal if you are certain that you have the capability to meet this requirement.
All responsible parties interested in responding to this notice are invited to submit a capability statement and proposal by 12:00pm EST by Nov 21, 2013 that provides sufficient details for consideration by the Government, via e-mail transmittal to gantt.joan@bls.gov. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All questions or comments regarding this notice shall be addressed in writing to Joan Gantt, Contract Specialist at gantt.joan@bls.gov.