Bloomberg Professional Subscription Licenses

INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE Bloomberg Finance L.P. SS-CFPB-16-064 The Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service), on behalf of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau(CFPB), intends to contract with Bloomberg L.P., 731 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022-1331, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 6.302-1, for Bloomberg Professional Subscription Licenses and Terminals. Bloomberg Finance L.P. has been identified as the only source capable of providing the required content. The mission of the CFPB is to educate the consumer as a first line in defense against abusive practices; to enforce consumer financial laws via the supervision of banks, credit unions and other financial companies; and to gather and analyze available information to better understand consumers, financial service providers, and consumer financial markets. In order to meet the above listed missions, the CFPB is establishing a library to serve as a focal point for reference materials that not only show current events, but events through the course of history that have shaped the financial environment as we know it today. Bloomberg Finance L.P. is the sole provider of the Bloomberg Professional Subscription Licenses and Terminals. Bloomberg provides a unique information service that aggregates a wide variety of financial data and news from multiple sources (including their own copyrighted news) and makes them available in a timely manner on a platform that includes analytical tools. While some portions of the data needed by CFPB can be obtained elsewhere, the full comprehensive and fully integrated scope of Bloomberg Finance data, news, research and analysis is proprietary and only available via Bloomberg Professional L.P. Bloomberg Business intelligence and Bloomberg News is not available via any other source. Bloomberg Intelligence provides indepth analysis and data sets on industries, companies and credit, government, economic and litigation factors that impact decision-making. Bloomberg Finance L.P. has proprietary Metadata system (tagging) that pulls news related material from over 125,000 news sources linking company's people and industries, organizing the information in real time, and allows companies to monetize their content to fit their needs. Bloomberg provides a default risk - market risk management platform allowing companies to run what-if scenarios on multi-asset portfolios, helping companies measure and manage credit risk in real time. These analytic toolsets are only available through Bloomberg Finance L/P. Bloomberg Finance L.P. is the sole marketer of the Bloomberg Terminal. They do not have any authorized resellers of their product. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses received by August 2, 2016 @ 2 pm ET. NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE. A request for more information or a copy of the solicitation will not be considered an affirmation response to this Special Notice. Telephone responses or inquires to this Special Notice will NOT be accepted. Responses shall be submitted electronically to Purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov, Attn: ES/LS/CG. Responses must include sufficient evidence that clearly demonstrates the vendor is available and is capable of providing the required products/services. If no written response is received that clearly demonstrates an ability to meet all requirements, is more advantageous to the Government, and is received by the aforementioned deadline, Fiscal Service shall make award on a sole source basis to Bloomberg Finance L.P. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed 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 procurement. Qualified contractors shall provide the following: 1. Company name and address, contact information, and business size (Large Business, Small Business, Disadvantaged Business, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, HUBZone, etc.). Please ensure contact information includes the name of the point of contact, email address, and telephone number should the Government have questions regarding individual responses. 2. Whether your products/services are available through a Government contract vehicle or Open Market. 3. DUNS Number. 4. A narrative description of how your products/services meet all of the characteristics of the Bloomberg Finance L.P. products/services. The following file extensions are not allowable and application materials/data submitted with these extensions cannot be considered: .bat, .cmd, .com, .exe, .pif, .rar, .scr, .vbs, .hta, .cpl, and .zip files. Microsoft Office compatible documents are acceptable. No other information regarding this Special Notice will be provided at this time.