D--News Room Vocus Medica Management Software (VMMS)

NOTICE OF CONTRACT ACTION: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Acquisition Operations, Strategic Acquisition Center - Frederick (SAC-F) intends to non-competitively award a contract to Cision US, Inc., 130 E. Randolph Street, Floor 7, Chicago, IL 60611-6164 under the authority of 41 U.S.C 3304(a)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The contract is to provide online News Room media management software for VA, Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Communications. Cision is currently used across multiple VHA sites. Cision is a comprehensive public affairs management tool that provides traditional and social media monitoring, press release distribution; a comprehensive media contact database, and other measurement capabilities. This allows for media targeting according to subject matter, geographic location, and tracking the performance of Veteran outreach using analytics. The common platform and format allows the compiling and exchanging of data with other VISNs, and medical centers. Without News Room, the Office of Communications would continue to have numerous stove-piped data repositories and sources. The New Room media management software is the developed and hosted by VOCUS. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code for this procurement is 519130. The size standard is500 employees. A justification for other than full and open competition has been prepared in support of this procurement. FBO announcement is being placed in order to satisfy requirements in FAR 5.201. The notice is not a request for competitive proposals and does not constitute a solicitation for bid or proposals. No solicitation package is available and telephone requests will not be accepted. Any information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement for any future needs of this sort. Please submit information the Contract Specialist at [email protected] and Contracting Officer at [email protected] by 4:00 pm EST, March 12, 2016.