Intent to Sole Source Bloomberg Subscription Services

The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) intends to award a sole source contract to Bloomberg Financial L.P. to renew current subscriptions with Bloomberg Anywhere Services and Bloomberg Professional Terminal Services. The contract will be for a one (1) year base period and four (4), one (1) year options to extend the period of performance. The Bloomberg Professional Terminal Service and Bloomberg Anywhere Services, provides, but is not limited to, direct access to Bloomberg information and data; access to tools necessary to program and auto-extract data for weekly reporting; real-time mapping to Bloomberg news; contact information of Bloomberg user financial market participants; direct connectivity to Bloomberg exclusive news items as well as agglomeration of multiple wire services used in production of daily AM and PM Agency reports; and, access to Bloomberg’s ancillary products, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg Law.