This is a notice of intent to solicit and negotiate a sole-source purchase order with Reuters America, Inc., 311 South Wacker Drive Suite 1100, Chicago, Illinois 60606 for a subscription to Reuters World Service. This service is to obtain independent, unbiased, detailed coverage of events in the USCENTCOM Area of Interest and Area of Responsibility in meeting analyst requirements for stories on key regional developments, assessments of issues, tip-offs, and detailed reporting. Reports on key regional developments or assessments in areas such as the Horn of Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Central Asian Republics must be provided in depth. Reuter?s news reporting to USCENTCOM?s intelligence analysts enhances protection to forces overseas as well as the continental United States. Extensive access to Reuters World wire news service over the past six years has proven successful in filling gaps in reporting from other news services. Reuter?s World Service is the only service that can meet the detailed level of reporting on a consistent and wide range basis required by USCENTCOM. Reuters has 130 news bureaus world-wide with over 2500 journalists contributing. No other service provides this level of coverage. There are other news organizations that report on some of the same stories Reuters does. However the Reuter?s product has the following particular unique qualifications critical to this requirement: 1. All Reuters? content is proprietary. Reuters generates all its own content and no other provider is licensed to redistribute their live newswires. 2. There is no other similar known provider of news that is not aligned with a particular country, culture or movement and therefore, has no agenda or bias.3. There is no other provider of news that has the Breadth of Coverage of Reuters: Reuters has over 2500 contributing journalists. This is important in reporting general international news the following examples highlight why -Invasion of Iraq 2003- Reuters was imbedded and could report breaking news from inside the US military. Every US news organization had to leave Baghdad on the eve of the invasion because as US news organizations they were too vulnerable to attack. Reuters was able to stay. Israeli incursion into Gaza 2006. Because of Reuters independence they were able to report independently and were the only news organization able to report images of Israeli troops operations. The 6th Contracting Squadron intends to issue a purchase order under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services will satisfy agency requirements. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement by 4 DECEMBER 2006 at 1200 hours EST. Interested parties may e-mail
[email protected] or fax 813-828-5111, Julie Corchado.