BNA ONLINE LEGAL RESEARCH AND DATA SERVICES

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) intends to award a contract to The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) on a sole source basis for access to their proprietary online legal research and data services. The contract will be for a base period of one year, with four, one-year options to extend the period of performance. The BNA contract will include access to law information including but not be limited to: Bloomberg Law, E-Discovery & Legal Tech News; Bloomberg Law, Mergers & Antitrust Law News; Bloomberg Law, Privacy & Data Security; Bloomberg Law, Securities Law News; Financial Accounting; and, United States Law Week. Without access to the unique and proprietary online legal information from BNA, CFTC's attorneys would be forced to rely on reports and stories from the news media for non- detailed reports of events and opinions on developments in subjects pertinent to the operations of the CFTC. Not having detailed information and analysis on developments in these subjects would limit the ability of CFTC's attorneys to provide legal guidance or make judgements on appropriate actions. Furthermore, not having access to Financial Accounting would limit CFTC auditors' and accountants' ability to conduct research on accounting issues the CFTC deals with on a daily basis. This procurement action is being conducted under FAR 6.302-1 with the authority of 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1), as the information required by CFTC is available from only one responsible source and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy CFTC's requirements. This notice does not constitute a solicitation for offers and, as such, no solicitation is available. However, the Government will consider responses from all responsible sources received by the response date and time identified in this synopsis. Written responses must include sufficient information to establish capability to fulfill the requirement. Any responses received will only be considered for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in lieu of the sole source contract described in this notice, and such determination shall be made at the sole discretion of CFTC.