The Bureau of Public Debt, on behalf of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) intends to award an Order to Dow Jones & Company on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 6.302-1, for the Wall Street Journal, 200 concurrent users via IP authenticated access delivered thourgh OCCs secure website. Dow Jones & Company Inc. is the sole source provider, publisher and owner of all Wall Street Journal content, both print and online. There is no other provider or vendor that can provide web access to this publication with a 2 year archive and 24 hour updates, 7 days each week, with coverage that spans the globe. Wall Street Journal content is trademarked, copyrighted and all content is licensed via the parent company, Dow Jones. There is no other publisher that provides all versions of the Wall Street Journal, US, Asia, Europe and the Americas, in English and respective languages, which users may set by customization. The continually updated content provided by this publication is critical to the mission of agency experts in areas that include bank examination, bank supervision, legal and economics. The content, both current and archived, is not available through any other publisher or provider via an enterprise web portal service, inclusive of all components: articles, blogs, market data, real time updates, videos, photos, customized alerts, and email updates. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations; however, the Government will consider responses received by July 23, 2012 by 12:00pm ET. Responses shall be submitted to
[email protected], Attention B. Cooper/P. White A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Interested offerors may register at http://www.fedbizopps.gov to receive notification when the solicitation and any amendments are issued and available for downloading. Please note that the General Services Administration provides the notification service as a convenience and does not guarantee that notifications will be received by all persons on the mailing list. Therefore, we recommend that you monitor the FedBizOpps site for all information relevant to desired acquisitions. Responses to this request can be emailed to
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