Award of Sole Source Contract

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Chief Counsel Office (CCO), hereby gives notice of their intent to award a contract to Reed Elsevier dba LexisNexis at 1150 18th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036 on a sole source basis utilizing FAR 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, procedures in accordance with 41 USC 253(c)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. This is a requirement for continual operation and maintenance of the Chief Counsel Office Research Tool (CCORe) - a secure repository to store, retrieve, display and reuse CCO internal legal materials, including precedential letters, memoranda and other relevant documents. This has been an ongoing project for several years, and the vendor has a unique knowledge of the system and its development from the introduction until now. The Period of Performance for this requirement is 8/25/2014 through 9/30/2015. This is not a request for competitive proposals; however, all proposals received in writing within three days after date of publication of this notice will be considered by the Government. Responses must be supported with clear and convincing evidence to clearly be able to provide the services outlined in this notice. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. A redacted copy of the justification prepared for this procurement will follow at a later date.