The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) intends to issue a sole source purchase order to Congressional Quarterly Inc. for the following CQ.com on-line subscriptions: CQ Today News, CQ Schedules, CQ Weekly, CQ Bill Track, CQ Member Profiles, Congressional Record, Bill Text, CRS Bill Digest, Committee Testimony, CQ Bill Analysis, CQ Committee & Subcommittee Markup Coverage, Congressional Transcripts. Newsmaker Transcripts, CQ House Action Reports, Committee Reports, Archives and Alerts 9 authorized users for a one-year period. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit quotations. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. However, all quotations received with pricing and sufficient technical documentation to establish a bonafide capacity to meet the requirement received by 2/10/06 at 2:00PM EST will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed purchase order based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation document is available. Such information, if submitted, should be forwarded by email to
[email protected] or faxed to OTS, Attn: Isabel Roman-Cogswell (202) 906-5648. If this procurement is competed, no additional synopsis will be published and a request for quotation will only be forwarded to the intended vendor and firms that respond to this synopsis of intent.