Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Factiva

The purpose of this notice is to publish the intent of a sole source award to Factiva, Inc. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) intends to award a sole source contract to Factiva Inc. for Electronic News Monitoring and Clipping Services including Editorial Workbench (with selected features), Factiva.com (for five (5) FHFA users with access to 500 articles per month) and Factiva Reader (for 450 users) for one year without providing for full and open competition because these products support news dissemination process already employed by the FHFA to provide news and information in support of mission-critical teams in examination and oversight of the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Factiva services indicated provide FHFA with the exclusive combination of sources including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Reuters, Barron's and the Associated Press. The Factiva.com subscription includes 5 licenses for password-holder access to search and retrieve from 14,000 sources from 159 countries and available in 22 languages, including more than 2,100 newspapers, for same-day and archival coverage of the world's most influential newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Times, and the Financial Times, more than 3,500 magazines, including general business titles and the industry publications for knowledge-driven markets, including The Economist, Finanz und Wirtschaft, Satellite News, and Computerworld, more than 5,500 business and industry publications, more than 500 newswires for breaking news from Dow Jones, Reuters and the Associated Press, as well as PR Newswire, M2 Presswire and other regionally focused and industry newswires, and more than 280 media programs transcripts from the BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox. The reader licenses are necessary to satisfy FHFA's Office of External Relations requirements for reproducing and distributing content from Factiva.com and will enable the External Relations Office to distribute news stories from Factiva.com via the agency's twice daily news summaries. Factiva.com is used by FHFA's media team to monitor media coverage of FHFA and its regulated entities, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks in addition to economic, financial and governmental news and developments. Agency components at headquarters and at field offices rely on the news summaries. The period of performance is for 12 months, beginning October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010. This subscription is only available from its producer/manufacturer and not through dealers or distributors. Factiva/Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC is the only source for this subscription service. This is an announcement of FHFA's intent to issue an order to Factiva Inc. for the Factiva.com subscription; FHFA will not issue a solicitation. Any other sources capable of providing news clipping and newsletter services that will perform as prescribed above are invited to demonstrate capability by submitting capability statements and other documents and pricing that demonstrate capability and/cost savings to provide the above services to [email protected] no later than September 27, 2009 9:00am, Eastern time. Respondents should refer to Factiva.com subscription.