Wharton Research Data Services Subscription

Added: Sep 24, 2016 12:44 pm The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), intends to solicit and award a sole source Firm-Fixed-Price Contract for a Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Subscription to The University of Pennsylvania. The anticipated base period of this subscription is 30 September 2016 through 29 September 2017. Additionally, four (4) subsequent 12-month subscriptions will be acquired; spanning from 30 September 2017 through 29 September 2021.

WRDS is the award-winning research platform and business intelligence tool for over 40,000 corporate, academic, government and nonprofit users at 400+ institutions in 30+ countries. WRDS provides the user with one location to access over 200 terabytes of data across multiple disciplines including Accounting, Banking, Economics, Environmental Social and Governance, Finance, Health Care, Insurance, Marketing, and Statistics.

A Sources Sought Notice was posted on FedBizOpps.Gov, from 26 August 2016 to 5 September 2016, with hopes of uncovering businesses capable of providing a WRDS or equivalent database subscription. Despite being posted for eleven days, not a single vendor responded to the Sources Sought Notice. Additionally, a comprehensive search of the internet failed to discern any product comparable to that of WRDS. Furthermore, Jamie Stewart (Director, WRDS) asserted in writing that Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the sole source to purchase the WRDS platform.

Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals/quotes; however; the USPTO will consider all responses received within 3 days of publication. A judgement by the USPTO not to compete this proposed contract, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the USPTO. Responses shall be submitted electronically to corey.forshee@uspto.gov concerning this acquisition.