Purchase of Additional Vertex Licenses Sole Source

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) intends to modify Contract 9523ZY21C0030 with Vertex Analytics on an other than full and open competitive basis. The modification is required to obtain two (2) additional licenses for access to Vertex’s commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hosted order book data and visualization platform used to facilitate the use of the data in support of prospective and ongoing litigation as well as economic analysis.  The modification will cover the remaining 6-months of the Base Year and all four 12-month option periods. Vertex Analytics is the only source that CFTC is aware of which provides a visualization software application (V3 Platform) with access to years of order book data.  This procurement action is being conducted under FAR 6.302-1 with the authority of 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1), as the information required by CFTC is available from only one responsible source and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy CFTC's requirements.  THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS nor a solicitation of offers. However, the Government will consider written responses from all responsible sources received by 5:00pm ET, March 11, 2022. Written responses must include sufficient information to establish capability to fulfill the requirement. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed requirement is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purposes for future Market Research requirements. No formal solicitation package is available. The Government will not be responsible for any costs of preparation in response to this announcement.