Subscription to FoodTrack Alert Bulletins

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Acquisitions and Grant Services intends to award a sole source, firm fixed-price contract to FoodTrack, Inc. for a subscription to FoodTrack Alert Bulletins. The FDA's Office of Emergency Operations (OEO) provides interagency coordination and response to adverse events, foodborne illnesses, injuries, product tampering and man-made and natural disasters and assists in the development of emergency operations plans and incident specific annexes and the design, implementation, and presentation of associated training and exercise programs. The OEO also represents the Agency at federal, state, local and foreign government meetings and workgroups on emergency preparedness and response by providing nationwide, 24-hour, seven-day-a-week emergency response system and managing the National Consumer Complaint System. Therefore, the purpose of this requirement is to obtain a subscription to FoodTrack Alert Bulletins.

FoodTrackAlertTM Bulletins alert subscribers to adverse, or potentially adverse, safety and security events that directly impact the worldwide food industry. FoodTrack is the gold standard for manned, round-the-clock, mission-critical reporting regarding food borne illness outbreaks, product recalls,and bio-terrorist threats. Only FoodTrack individually screens hundreds of independent news sources, which are then filtered through proprietary systems, to yield relevant real-time data 24 hours a day/7 days a week. FoodTrack advisories reach the world's largest food companies, their supply chains, retailers, governmental bodies, and leading trade organizations such as FMI, FPA, and PMA. As the publisher of the FoodTrack Alerts, only FoodTrack, Inc. is capable of providing the required subscription services.

The proposed simplified acquisition action is for supplies and services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source in accordance with FAR 13.106-1(b). Interested parties may identify their interests and capabilities to respond to the requirement prior to the response date of this notice. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed simplified acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive requirement. No further solicitation is available.

FDA will consider all responses received prior to the closing date of this notice and will use responses in determining whether it is necessary to use full and open competition for this requirement. Reponses shall be emailed to Robin Goon at Robin.Goon@fda.hhs.gov no later than 12:00pm EST on July 7, 2017.