| 76 -- Daily News Briefing and Clip package |
| Program Summary |
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| Title: |
76 -- Daily News Briefing and Clip package |
| GovCB Opps ID : |
ADP12023463990001929 |
| Document Type: |
Combine Solicitation |
| FSC Code: |
76 - Books, Maps, and Other Publications
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| NAICS Code: |
511120 - Periodical Publishers |
| Set Aside: |
Total Small Business |
| Solicitation No.: |
CC-08-HQ-R-0022 |
| Source: |
http://www1.fbo.gov/spg/TREAS/OCC/ASDMS413/CC%2D08%2DHQ%2DR%2D0022/Combine%20Synopsis%5F... |
Place of
Performance: |
Address: 250 E Street, SW Washington, DC Postal Code: 20219 Country: UNITED STATES
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Posted Date:
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Feb 06, 2008 |
| Last Update: |
Feb 06, 2008 |
| Due Date: |
Feb 20, 2008 |
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| Description |
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General Information
| Document Type: |
Combine Solicitation |
| Solicitation Number: |
CC-08-HQ-R-0022 |
| Posted Date: |
Feb 06, 2008 |
| Original Response Date: |
Feb 20, 2008 |
| Current Response Date: |
Feb 20, 2008 |
| Original Archive Date: |
Mar 06, 2008 |
| Current Archive Date: |
Mar 06, 2008 |
| Classification Code: |
76 -- Books, maps & other publications |
| Set Aside: |
Total Small Business |
| Naics Code: |
511120 -- Periodical Publishers |
Contracting Office Address
Department of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Acquisition Management (AQM), 250 E Street, SW Mail Stop 4-13, Washington, DC, 20219, UNITED STATES
Description
NAICS Code: 511120 - Periodical publishers - Size standard - 500 employees
This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.
Interested vendors should contact Cheryl Sivertsen with any questions regarding this notice. Contact information is located below.
SCOPE OF REQUIREMENT: OCC News Brief and Clip Package
PURPOSE: Create and provide daily news briefing and clip package to support the Comptroller of the Currency and other OCC senior staff.
BACKGROUND: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency intends to award a contract for the daily creation of a morning news briefing and clip packet for the Comptroller and senior staff. In furtherance of the OCC?s role of supervising the nation?s banks, officials and staff members must start each day fully informed about important news on national banking news printed and broadcast nationwide. The Comptroller has determined this will best be accomplished via an expert-edited briefing supplemented with full-text articles.
This procurement is a 100% small-business set-aside with a firm-fixed contract, with one base period and four additional one-year options.
GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY AND INFORMATION: The OCC will provide the following:
OCC Public Affairs staff will provide technical direction and be available to provide guidance and clarification.
OCC Public Affairs staff will provide a list of news sources that should be reviewed daily. This list is provided as a minimum. The contractor may review additional sources based on its expertise.
OCC will review and approve an initial outline for the news briefings and provide feedback on the quality of the news briefings to improve its relevance, coverage, and accuracy.
CONTRACTOR FURNISHED ITEMS: The Contractor will provide the following:
Prepare and distribute a daily briefing memo highlighting and summarizing important elements of news stories printed and broadcast nationwide. Items included will be culled from thousands of outlets daily and will be those OCC officials themselves would have identified as important. Redundant and irrelevant news will be eliminated. 1. The vendor must use human analyst/editors to: find and review articles and broadcasts from all major (and most smaller) daily newspapers, national and local television, newsweeklies, magazines and journals, Internet sites and specialty press. It then must apply a sophisticated understanding of OCC?s mission to determine which aspects of each story are important to the various constituencies within OCC; edit out all information (not stories, but parts of stories) that is redundant or irrelevant; and weave together the remaining (important) information such that it reads like a single story rather than what it really is, subsets of myriad stories on the same topic. In creating this new story from elements of various original stories, the vendor should also, as appropriate, characterize the coverage such that OCC officials can quickly get a sense for how widely various story elements were run and also for the general tonality of the coverage. 2. Summaries should include source, date, page, circulation and author where available.
The briefing must also: be delivered weekdays by 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time except on Federal holidays (including no more than two days at each of Thanksgiving and Christmas); include news from weekends and Federal holidays in the briefing immediately following those days; include a table of contents organized by subject matter; be available via an IP-protected Web site (including a searchable archive) or other secure delivery as dictated to vendor by OCC; include daily email notification when the briefing is available; be printable in MS Word and Adobe PDF formats; include the full-text backup document with complete versions of the stories referenced in the briefing, including its own table of contents and story sequence matching that of the briefing; include a section showing the story headlines from the nation?s major daily newspapers and story lineup from the previous evening?s national news broadcasts; include a Washington Schedule section for the important events scheduled that day; be available to any and all employees of OCC, exclusively for OCC?s internal use.
Vendor must review USA Today, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New York Times, American Banker, BNAs Banking Report, and the Wall Street Journal in hardcopy on deadline to identify stories not available electronically or news of interest to OCC. Cost of subscriptions should be reflected in the price as required. Television coverage must be those stories broadcast nationally and locally; it is not sufficient to provide links to stories appearing on the websites of local broadcasters, as many of those stories never aired.
In addition to news specific to OCC and its mission, the vendor must provide a national news section in the briefing suitable to the needs of OCC officials who must be aware of important developments affecting the federal government broadly so they may interact with peers in the Administration and Congress.
For print articles referenced in the briefing, the vendor must provide a link to the original full-text versions when available on the original publishers? websites. When links point to content on subscription-based sites, the Comptroller may at its discretion subscribe. Under fair use, the government also requires a backup document with the full text of every story referenced in the briefing. For broadcast stories in which reviewing the actual audio/video would be particularly useful, the vendor will provide a link to available ?video clips? that stream to the reader?s desktop.
The briefing must be delivered weekdays by 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time except on Federal holidays (including no more than two days at each of Thanksgiving and Christmas); include news from weekends and Federal holidays in the briefing immediately following those days; include a table of contents organized by subject matter; be available via an IP-protected Web site (including a searchable archive) or other secure delivery as dictated to vendor by OCC; include daily email notification when the briefing is available; be printable in MS Word and Adobe PDF formats; include the full-text backup document with complete versions of the stories referenced in the briefing, including its own table of contents and story sequence matching that of the briefing; include a section showing the story headlines from the nation?s major daily newspapers and story lineup from the previous evening?s national news broadcasts; include a Washington Schedule section for the important events scheduled that day; be available to any and all employees of OCC, exclusively for OCC?s internal use.
The news included in the briefing must be current, meaning the 9:00 a.m. briefing will include stories appearing that morning in the nation?s newspapers and broadcast in the preceding 24 hours by the nation?s national and local television news outlets. It is very important that there be an extremely low incidence of missed or day-old stories.
Produce and distribute one-page early bird summary of top news by 6:00 a.m. highlighting news seen by other government Department executives with a focus on major banking and financial news.
The vendor must also be flexible to accommodate changes to the briefing based on changing needs at OCC. The memo is anticipated to average seven to ten pages per day, with the full-text clips package being much longer. If the OCC later determines it prefers a much more concise briefing or one that contains more information, the vendor would be expected to accommodate changes of this nature within the terms of the existing contract, provided those changes don?t materially alter the vendors costs. Similarly, the vendor might be required on short notice to change the topics covered; the deadlines; the format of the briefing; etc. Vendor will coordinate the order and outline of the Daily Digest and Early Bird products in advance. Relevant stories from Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, and American Banker will be group at the front of the Daily Digest product under Leading News.
SUMMARY OF DELIVERABLES:
Daily News Briefing in e-mail, PDF, and online by 9:00 each business day
Daily News Clipping Package in PDF and online by 9:00 each business day
Daily one-page summary of top news for executives by e-mail by 6 a.m. each business day.
PROPOSALS: Proposals are due on/or before close-of-business February 20, 2008 and shall include the following information. Responses should be submitted electronically to cheryl.sivertsen@occ.treas.gov.
1. PRICING:
The contractor shall submit pricing for a base period (date of award through 09/30/2008) plus four (4) twelve-month option years as follows:
CLIN 0001 (Base period): 03/01/2008 ? 09/30/2008 (for evaluation purposes only)
CLIN 1001 Option Year 1: 10/01/2008 ? 09/30/2009
CLIN 2001 Option Year 2: 10/01/2009 ? 09/30/2010
CLIN 3001 Option Year 3: 10/01/2010 ? 09/30/2011
CLIN 4001 Option Year 4: 10/01/2011 ? 09/30/2012
TOTAL (Base period and each Option Year):
2. SAMPLE PACKAGE
With the proposal, the contractor shall provide the following for evaluation purposes. 1) One daily sample of news briefing and clipping package tailored to OCC based on the terms stated above and the following source list.
Suggested News Source List: The following print news sources are provided as minimum examples and should not be considered exhaustive. American Banker, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal print editions should be reviewed as well as the online editions. The American Banker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, U.S. News & World Report Magazine, Money Magazine, Forbes Magazine, BNA's Banking Report, Pratt's letter, The Associated Press, Reuters, Best, Dow Jones & Dow Jones? Market Watch, Barron's, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Fortune, Financial Times, National Mortgage News, LA Times, Houston Chronicle, Charlotte Observer, Dow Jones & Dow Jones? Market Watch, Bloomberg, Federal Diary of the Washington Post by Stephen Barr, Federal Report by Mike Causey, Wall Street Journal?s What?s News, McClatchy News service
3. PAST PERFORMANCE
Relevant past performance and references from three Department level contracts providing similar capabilities. References shall include a description of services provided, dates of service, bios of relevant managers, editors/analysts, and technical staff to support secure delivery and Point of Contact information - telephone number and email address as well as any identifying contract numbers.
4. TECHNICAL APPROACH
Two-page overview of project and client management approach.
The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005 ? 15 Addendum:
FAR PROVISIONS: 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors ? Commercial Items (Sept 2006).
Offerors must include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items.
FAR CLAUSES: 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions ? Commercial Items (Feb 2007): 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders ? Commercial Items (Nov 2006) - 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (Apr 2002); 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans (Sept 2006); 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities (Jun 1998); 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans (Sept 2006); 52.222-39, Notification of Employee Rights Concerning Payment of Union Dues or Fees (Dec 2004); 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer Central Contractor Registration (Oct 2003); 52.216-18 Ordering (Oct 1995); 52.216-19 Order Limitations (Oct 1995). Offerors must include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items,
BASIS FOR AWARD: This procurement is being solicited, offered, evaluated, and awarded using FAR part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR part 15 ? Contracting by Negotiation. The OCC will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible contractor (FAR Subpart 9.104) whose response will be the most advantageous to the OCC using the following factors, listed in descending order of importance:
1. Technical Acceptability. To include all data and information required for evaluation, and shall include the following: Factor 1. ? Sample package. Factor 2 ? Management/Technical approach
2. Past performance is considered to be the contractor?s relevant work history. Evaluation of past performance will be a subjective assessment based on OCC?s experience, if any, with the contractor; the experience of references submitted by the contractor; and a consideration of other relevant facts and circumstances that are obtained by OCC from any source. It will not be based on absolute standards of acceptable performance.
3. Price. Price is the total evaluated cost of the proposal (Base period plus all option years.). OCC will use total evaluated cost as part of its best value analysis.
Point of Contact
Cheryl Sivertsen, Purchasing Agent, Phone (202) 874-5023, Fax (202) 874-5625, Email cheryl.sivertsen@occ.treas.gov
Place of Performance
| Address: |
250 E Street, SW
Washington, DC |
| Postal Code: |
20219 |
| Country: |
UNITED STATES |
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