The Army Contracting Command-National Capital Region (ACC-NCR) on behalf of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)intends to award a sole source contract under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) or 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) - FAR 6.302-1 (Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements), to the Advertising Council, 815 2nd Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY. 10017-4503. The Advertising Council will provide advertising and marketing services for the U.S. Army to field effective public service campaigns, refinement of campaign strategy and focus, creation of multimedia advertising products to carry out the strategy, dissemination of multimedia products to national media outlets, development and placement of in-school products and monitoring and reporting the results of media placement efforts and ongoing tracking of the results/metrics established for the program. The place of performance will be at the Contractor's facility or at designated field locations during the execution of the production tasks. This requirement will result in a Firm-Fixed Price contract with a period of performance of eleven (11) or twelve (12) months. This notice of intent to award a sole source contract is not a request for competitive quotes. There will be no solicitation available for competitive quotes. Phone calls will not be accepted. The point of contact for this action is Contract Specialist, Linda Jackson who can be reached at:
[email protected]. Interested parties may express their interest and provide a capabilities statement no later than 25 September 2012, at 1:00 PM, EST. A determination not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.