--Daily Site-Specific Oil Prices

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) intends to award a sole source contract to the Oil Price Information Service. The requirement consists of a daily feed of site-specific retail prices for the continental United States. The Oil Price Information Service?s daily feed is the only subscription to provide reporting on real-time pricing data on three grades of gasoline and diesel for 120,000+ stations around the country. The subscriptions also provides information regarding fuel location, station name, physical address, state, zip code, latitude and longitude, brand name, product, retail price, and last confirmed purchase date and time. The DOE is using exemption to competition 6.302-1(a) (2) (ii), One Responsible Source. This is a notice of intent and not a request for competitive proposals. No solicitation is available for this requirement. If a firm believes the DOE should not pursue this sole source proc urement with the Oil Price Information Service, then they should submit a capability statement and pricing information for the requirement by 3:00pm April 4, 2013. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.