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(i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items, prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6 of the FAR and as supplemented with additional information included in this no... (i) This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items, prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6 of the FAR and as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. (ii) Solicitation number 75H70420Q00004 applies, and is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). (iii) This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2020-02. (iv) This requirement is being solicited as a full and open competition and the associated NAICS is 519130 with small business size standard of 1000 employees. (v) A Firm-Fixed Priced Purchase Order is to be resulted from this RFQ. The Purchase Order will include one year base period and four (4) one year option periods. Offerors are to provide a firm-fixed price quotation for the each contract period. Quotations shall include the optional prices applicable for for 3, 4, and 5 users. CLIN0001: Base Year (2/8/2020 – 2/7/2021) CLIN0002: Option Year 1 (2/8/2021 – 2/7/2022) CLIN0003: Option Year 2 (2/8/2022 – 2/7/2023) CLIN0004: Option Year 3 (2/8/2023 – 2/7/2024) CLIN0005: Option Year 4 (2/8/2024 – 2/7/2025) (vi) This IHS Congressional and Legislative Affairs Staff (CLAS) requires access to a congressional news site and legislative tracking service. Service must provide up-to-date news and analysis, committee coverage, committee reports, bill comparison, latest U.S. Code, congressional testimony and customized email alerts. Service must provide ability to research and track legislation. IHS is seeking contract sources with capability to provide sufficient and accurate information to meet the Agency’s needs. The capability statement shall sufficiently address how the responder’s support services will be delivered for the proposed project. The qualifying response for this notice must ensure that the offeror has the experience and capacity to take part in this specific type of requirement. In particular, IHS/CLAS is seeking a Congressional news and legislative tracking tool that includes the following features and services: • Online congressional web search and tracking technology. • Comprehensive and nonpartisan news of Congressional action, with breaking new alerts. • Analysis, summaries and forecasts for all major bills before Congress with background information, floor debate, synopses, riders and prospects for passage. • Bill tracker for every bill, with instant analysis on any actions. • Side by side text comparison of Congressional bill text. • Detailed nonpartisan congressional biographies – detail on each member’s state/district, priorities, style and voting record. Includes assignments, posts and key staff contacts. • Reliable and detailed listings of all scheduled floor, committee and subcommittee action, including type of meeting, agenda, date, time, place, chairperson, and witness. • Complete coverage of congressional bill markups, recorded votes, voting records for members and vote descriptions for all votes. • Legislative impact to analyze and reports how pending bills before Congress affect current law and specific sections of U.S. Code. • Web technology to alert users to new and updated news on bills and congressional action. • Searchable database of transcripts, focusing on Congress and the federal agencies. • Comprehensive source of CRS reports. • Database of the official Congressional Record of the proceedings and debates of Congress, edited to ensure it matches the print edition. • Database of the Federal Register for the rules, regulations, proposed rules and notices of federal agencies, as well as executive orders, proclamations, and other presidential documents. • Comprehensive collection of government source documents available, including draft bill text, agency documents, press releases, “Dear Colleague” letters, OMB, CBO and GAO documents, and other hard-to-find government reports. • Searchable text of all enacted Public Laws. (vii) The Purchase Order will include one year base period and four (4) one year option periods. When applicable, delivery and acceptance terms are FBO Destination. (viii) The provision at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items (Oct 2018) applies to this acquisition. (ix) 52.212-2, Evaluation -- Commercial Items (Oct 2014) (a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: 1) Technical Capability including System usability for end-users; Degree of learning curve that the system will require; Offered system’s pre-existing reports and the ability to create ad-hoc reports; System flexibility to allow IHS the ability to manipulate and manage ad-hoc reports, data, alerts, and other capabilities; and Offeror’s documented quality assurance examples of system’s content and databases. 2) Price - the government reserves a right to determine the best pricing option for the award. Upon determination of the pricing option to be incorporated onto the award, respective pricing for same number of users among the offerors will be compared. Submission of the Technical Capability is limited to 20 pages and technical factors, when combined, are more important than price. All non-price factors are of equal importance. (x) Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items (Dec 2019), with its offer. The Offeror shall complete only paragraph (b) of this provision if the Offeror has completed the annual representations and certification electronically in the System for Award Management (SAM) accessed through https://www.sam.gov. (xi) FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Items (Oct 2018) applies to this acquisition. The following addendum applies: only electronical invoicing will be accepted. (xii) 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -Commercial Items (Oct 2019) (a) The Contractor shall comply with the following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses, which are incorporated in this contract by reference, to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (a) The Contractor shall comply with the following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clauses, which are incorporated in this contract by reference, to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (1) 52.203-19, Prohibition on Requiring Certain Internal Confidentiality Agreements or Statements (Jan 2017) (section 743 of Division E, Title VII, of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Pub. L. 113-235) and its successor provisions in subsequent appropriations acts (and as extended in continuing resolutions)). (2) 52.204-23, Prohibition on Contracting for Hardware, Software, and Services Developed or Provided by Kaspersky Lab and Other Covered Entities (Jul 2018) (Section 1634 of Pub. L. 115-91). (3) 52.204-25, Prohibition on Contracting for Certain Telecommunications and Video Surveillance Services or Equipment. (Aug 2019) (Section 889(a)(1)(A) of Pub. L. 115-232). (4) 52.209-10, Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations (Nov 2015). (5) 52.233-3, Protest After Award (Aug 1996) (31 U.S.C. 3553). (6) 52.233-4, Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim (Oct 2004) (Public Laws 108-77 and 108-78 (19 U.S.C. 3805 note)). (b) The Contractor shall comply with the FAR clauses in this paragraph (b) that the Contracting Officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (1) 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government (Sept 2006), with Alternate I (Oct 1995) (41 U.S.C. 4704 and 10 U.S.C. 2402). (2) 52.203-13, Contractor Code of Business Ethics and Conduct (Oct 2015) (41 U.S.C. 3509)). (3) 52.209-6, Protecting the Government’s Interest When Subcontracting with Contractors Debarred, Suspended, or Proposed for Debarment. (Oct 2015) (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). (4) 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns (Oct 2018) (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(2) and (3)). (5) (i) 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan (Aug 2018) (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(4)) (6) 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting (Jan 2017) (15 U.S.C.637(a)(14)). (7) 52.219-16, Liquidated Damages-Subcontracting Plan (Jan 1999) (15 U.S.C. 637(d)(4)(F)(i)). (8) 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation (Jul 2013) (15 U.S.C. 632(a)(2)). (9) 52.219-29, Notice of Set-Aside for, or Sole Source Award to, Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business Concerns (Dec 2015) (15 U.S.C. 637(m)). (10) 52.222-3, Convict Labor (June 2003) (E.O.11755). (11) 52.222-19, Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies (Oct 2019) (E.O.13126). (12) 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities (Apr 2015). (13) (i) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity (Sept 2016) (E.O.11246). (14) (i) 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Veterans (Oct 2015) (38 U.S.C. 4212). (15) (i) 52.222-36, Equal Opportunity for Workers with Disabilities (Jul 2014) (29 U.S.C.793). (16) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Veterans (Feb 2016) (38 U.S.C. 4212). (17) 52.222-40, Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (Dec 2010) (E.O. 13496). (18) (i) 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons (Jan 2019) (22 U.S.C. chapter 78 and E.O. 13627). (19) 52.222-54, Employment Eligibility Verification (Oct 2015). (Executive Order 12989). (Not applicable to the acquisition of commercially available off-the-shelf items or certain other types of commercial items as prescribed in 22.1803.) (20) 52.223-18, Encouraging Contractor Policies to Ban Text Messaging While Driving (Aug 2011) (E.O. 13513). (21) 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases (June 2008) (E.O.’s, proclamations, and statutes administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury). (22) 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-System for Award Management (Oct 2018) (31 U.S.C. 3332). (c) The Contractor shall comply with the FAR clauses in this paragraph (c), applicable to commercial services, that the Contracting Officer has indicated as being incorporated in this contract by reference to implement provisions of law or Executive orders applicable to acquisitions of commercial items: (1) 52.222-41, Service Contract Labor Standards (Aug 2018) (41 U.S.C. chapter 67). (2) 52.222-42, Statement of Equivalent Rates for Federal Hires (May 2014) (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 67). (3) 52.222-43, Fair Labor Standards Act and Service Contract Labor Standards-Price Adjustment (Multiple Year and Option Contracts) (Aug 2018) (29 U.S.C. 206 and 41 U.S.C. chapter 67). (4) 52.222-55, Minimum Wages Under Executive Order 13658 (Dec 2015). (5) 52.222-62, Paid Sick Leave Under Executive Order 13706 (Jan 2017) (E.O. 13706). (6) 52.226-6, Promoting Excess Food Donation to Nonprofit Organizations (May 2014) (42 U.S.C. 1792). (End of clause) (xiii) 52.252-1, Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference (Feb 1998) / 52.252-2, Clauses Incorporated by Reference (Feb 1998). This solicitation incorporates one or more solicitation provisions and contract clauses by reference, with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text. Upon request, the Contracting Officer will make their full text available. The offeror is cautioned that the listed provisions may include blocks that must be completed by the offeror and submitted with its proposal or offer. In lieu of submitting the full text of those provisions/ clauses, the offeror may identify the provision/clauses by paragraph identifier and provide the appropriate information with its proposal or offer. Also, the full text of a solicitation provision and clause can be accessed electronically at this address: https://www.acquisition.gov/browse/index/far (xiv) n/a (xv) Proposals are due by 12:00 PM EST on January 27, 2020. Questions are due by 12:00 PM EST on January 16, 2020. Offeror must confirm IHS’ receipt of their proposal. Email the proposal to paul.premoe@ihs.gov. (xvi) POC is Paul Premoe, Contracting Officer, paul.premoe@ihs.gov.