DIU- Bloomberg Terminal Licenses subscription

The Department of Defense (DOD), Washington Headquarters Services, Acquisition Directorate, (WHS/AD) on behalf of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) intends to award a follow-in sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract to Bloomberg Finance L.P. (731 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022), to provide Bloomberg Terminal® Subscription Bloomberg Anywhere. To meet its mission, DIU requires the renewal of Bloomberg Terminal® Subscription Bloomberg Anywhere licenses so they can continue to monitor and analyze real-time financial market data. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) accelerates commercial innovation for national defense. DIU takes mission-critical problems from the Department of Defense (DoD) and then finds potential solutions from the private sector, focusing strongly on U.S. innovation ecosystems (i.e., Silicon Valley, Boston/Cambridge, and Austin, Texas). The Bloomberg terminal subscription@ Bloomberg Anywhere is only available thru Bloomberg Financial L.P. The Bloomberg Terminal® is the world’s leading interactive financial information network, seamlessly integrating the very best in real-time data, news, research, and analytics. In addition, Bloomberg Terminal provides: On-demand multi-media content. Extensive electronic trading capabilities. As such, this vendor has unique and proprietary all-inclusive data and analytics resources that provides insight into approximately five (5) million global corporate entities that are not available elsewhere. If services were switched to another company's product, the current subscription would be interrupted hindering DIU's capability to achieve their overall mission objective. The anticipated award will be made under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) “Soliciting from a single source.” The NAICS code utilized for this procurement is 519190 – “All Other Information Services,” a Small Business Size Standard of $30 million annual sales. The anticipated Period of Performance (POP) will be a 12-month base period and two (2) option year periods. This notice of intent is NOT a request for proposals or quotations. Therefore, requests for copies of a solicitation in response to this notice will not be honored or acknowledged. Contracting Office Address: 4800 Mark Center Drive, Suite 09F09 Alexandria, VA 22350 Primary Point of Contact: Secondary Point of Contact: Jeanelle Joseph Kealon Wallace Contract Specialist Contracting Officer [email protected] [email protected]