El Morro Newspaper

The Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico is conducting market research in order to determine the availability and capability of companies to provide "El Morro" Civilian Enterprise Newspaper. This is a Sources Sought Notification and is for market research purposes only. The purpose of posting this sources sought notification is to locate an experienced civilian enterprise newspaper providers capable of and interested in providing El Morro newspaper at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico. The Government is looking for industry feedback and practicality of issuing this requirement at no cost. The Government intention is that the sale of advertisement can be used to offset any production cost and provide a profit to the awarded contractor. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, labor, supplies, tools, materials, supervision and other items necessary to publish El Morro once a month. The Government will provide the articles. The contractor shall collect ads, assemble, lay out, print, deliver and distribute in Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico a minimum of 10,000 copies monthly, 12 months of the year of the newspaper on El Morro's scheduled publication day, the first day of every month. The newspaper will be distributed in Fort Buchanan, local and federal agencies within the San Juan metro area, US Army Reserve Headquarters, Puerto Rico National Guard Headquarters, and other designated locations around the island of Puerto Rico. The El Morro is a primarily English language publication; however, some articles will be bilingual (in English and Spanish). See attached Performance Work Statement (PWS) for more detailed information. The period of performance will be for a one-year base contract with four option years. It is the intention the revenue the Contractor receives from the sale of the advertisements in El Morro shall be used to mitigate costs to the Government for publishing. The solicitation will be issued electronically and will be available on the FedBizOpps website on or around December 1, 2016 (publication date is subject to change). The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 511110, Newspaper Publishers, which has a small business size standard of 500 employees. The information provided under this Sources Sought Notification will not be returned, and no compensation will be provided from any response to this announcement. Proprietary information submitted will be protected, when so designated. Responses should include the following: 1. Reference Sources Sought Number 2. Size of the business and socio-economic status (i.e. small business, large business, 8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, etc.) 3. Statement of Capability stating your skills, experience, and knowledge required to perform the specified type of work. Responses to this sources sought announcement must be received no later than October 19, 2016 at 10:00AM (Puerto Rico local time). Responses should be emailed to Baryan Sierra at contact@example.gov.