Waterborne Cargo Reports

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Washington DC intends to award a sole source contract, under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 5(1)(3) and FAR 6.302-1(a)(2) based on the fact that only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The intended source for the award (and incumbent) for this action is Commonwealth Business Media dba PIERS (Port Import Export Reporting Services), located at 33 Washington Street Newark NJ 07107. PIERS will provide transactional level transportation data for U.S. Exports and Imports taken directly from the shippers bills of lading and manifest filed both manually and through the U.S. Customs Automated Manifest System. PIERS audits, standardizes and validates the data received which minimizes risk of invalid information. Information included these reports include but are not limited to Import and Export of all foods including all foreign ports, all consignee and shippers, all US ports, all agricultural commodities and PIERS Import Report for 2009. PIERS submits all Data reports to USDA, via e-mail and CD k\in "txt" and "dbf" format monthly, This Notice of Intent to award a sole source contract is not a request for competitive proposals. There is no solicitation document or RFP for competitive proposals to follow and no phone calls will be accepted. The point of contact for this posting is Gloria Benson, Contract Specialist, [email protected]. Interested parties may express their interest and provide a Capability Statement to Ms Benson via e-mail no later than Jan 29, 2010; 12:00 pm CST. A determination to compete or not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.