Description
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, intends to award a sole source commercial items contract using Simplified Acquisition Procedures to CQ Roll Call Inc., 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Floor 6, Washington, DC 20004-2401, for CQ.com subscription services. The contract will renew the OCC’s existing subscription for that service. The CQ Roll Call subscription service provides a number of features that make it unique. Some of those features include the following: 1. A news service that provides access to nonpartisan political and policy news. The news publications track, report on, and provide analysis of major issues specifically related to banking and finance, as these issues relate to congressional activity and federal agencies. This includes congressional action and activity, including markups, hearings, and actions in the conference committees. 2. A bill tracking service that offers tracking of federal bills in real time as bills move through the legislative process, allowing account holders to create alerts for bill tracking by keyword, bill number, committee or subcommittee, and U.S. Code section. Moreover, the tracking service must allow for searching for bills by keywords, bill numbers, members, committees, sponsors, chamber, legislative stage, and date. 3 . Bill analysis with summaries of current major bills before Congress, including background, commentary, highlights, prospects for passage, and how pending bills could impact current law, including an archive of past bills, dating back to at least the 104th Congress, that includes bill status and chronology. 4. Detailed congressional bills legislative history that chronicles and includes amendment text, government reports (e.g., Congressional Budget Office (CBO), General Accounting Office (GAO), and Congressional Research Service (CRS)), and references of the bill in the Congressional Record (e.g., measures, motions, speeches, and debates). 5. Side-by-side bill comparison with ability to track the differences in language between bill documents for different bill numbers and for different versions of the same bill number. 6. Tracking of federal laws that identify current bills that would affect a public law and how the law would be affected. Ability to identify bills throughout the legislative process, i.e., if bill text changes after it is initially introduced. 7. Detailed summaries and analyses of floor activity and actions of the U. S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, as well as comprehensive coverage of daily floor action such as floor vote records, including a forward-looking report projecting what will happen on the House and Senate floors, including any expected amendments, motions, and bills scheduled for floor consideration. 8. Comprehensive committee coverage that includes in-the-room coverage of committee and subcommittee markup sessions, transcripts of committee hearings and related testimony, committee schedules, and amendment text of markup sessions. 9 . Profiles of the members of Congress, including their staff and contact information, voting records, bills sponsored and co-sponsored, committee assignments, and schedules. 10. Miscellaneous government documents, including but not limited to, the Congressional Record, committee reports, bill text, amendment text, public laws, press releases, CBO cost estimates, CRS reports, GAO reports and Office of Management and Budget releases. 11. Ability for users to create and edit personal search lists (i.e., bill numbers, public laws, members, floor votes, committees, keywords, etc.). Users must be able to use personalized lists in creating email alerts. 12. Ability to make custom reports that use database information and OCC created content. This should be a report that updates automatically so that relevant content is easily accessible. This should include the ability to follow bills, member, committees, and topics. Content should be able to be shared so a user can see a project with all the information in one place. 13 . Service must be able to provide usage reports on a quarterly basis and as requested. 14. Contractor must provide both technical and research support. The period of performance for this requirement is October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2025. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; a solicitation document will not be issued. All information received within 7 days after the date of this notice with pricing and sufficient technical documentation to establish a bona fide capability to meet the requirement will be considered by the OCC. A determination not to compete this proposed contract action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the OCC. Information received will be considered primarily for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.