NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD. Contracting Center of Excellence on behalf of the U.S. Army Human Resources Command, Public Affairs Office and in accordance with FAR subpart 6.3, intends to execute a Firm Fixed Price contract under other than full and open competition sole source basis to NOVUS. The Government intends to purchase a subscription to VOCUS that consists of Enterprise Edition, News-On-Demand, online Newsroom, Analytics, Sentiment Analysis, and PR Web Newswire. The proposed period will be one year from the date of award. This notice is valid until September 23rd, 2007 and is NOT a Request for Proposals. The Government does not intend to submit a solicitation for proposals. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequen tial damages for any technical information provided. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. REQUIREMENTS: The contractor will provide the users with complete Public Relations Management System and Electronic Monitoring Service for the following functional requirements: a. Enterprise Edition, News-On-Demand, online Newsroom, Analytics, Sentiment Analysis, and PR Web Newswire b. Development of customized key word searches c. Delivery of breaking news 24/7 from more than 25,000 U.S. and international print, broadcast, blogs, and online news sources via VOCUS software d. Monitoring newspapers, magazines, newsletters, trade publications, television, wire services, and Web content e. Integrate news monitoring with software tools to analyze and share news for effective collaboration across departments and with agencies, communicate consistently to multiple audiences g. Automatic production of charts and graphs giving immediate insight into news and events h. Allows measurement of the prominence and impact of news coverage by filtering through news mentions and identifying the most relevant and significant facts i. Maintained without the assistance of IT staff There is NO solicitation document. This notice is not a request for quotes. Interested firms may send a capabilities statement via email to Contracting Center of Excellence, ATTN: Ms. Jackie Moore, at
[email protected] or via fax at (703) 695- 9747. Capability statements must be received by this office within 10 calendar days from publication of this notice.