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NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to award a sole source order to Bureau Van Dijk Electronic Publishing, Inc. located at: 7 World Trade Ctr 25... NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to award a sole source order to Bureau Van Dijk Electronic Publishing, Inc. located at: 7 World Trade Ctr 250 Greenwich St, New York, NY, 10017, for the purchase of electronic international business data services The purchase will be made using procurement procedures in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) FAR 6.302-1 – Only one responsible source; or brand name specification. Bureau van Dijk is the only vendor who provides the most complete source of information on global business entities that can be paired with existing IRS data to fully understand and analyze mergers & acquisitions, transfer pricing, income shifting, intellectual property, and other complex enterprise legal behaviors by multinational businesses and their subsidiaries. Without this capability, the IRS will under-identify issues for case selection and make fewer impactful assessments and adjustments in Examination. The IRS needs to keep up with the complex, interconnected, and dynamic nature of international taxation, including changing tax avoidance schemes and the legal and regulatory environment. Bureau van Dijk is the only vendor who can provide the right data to address issues like foreign ownership in U.S. controlled corporations, money laundering, attributable country-by-country earnings and taxes, and longitudinal details on global M&A activity. Bureau van Dijk is the only vendor who provides at least 10 years of historical data on the financial measures of global business entities; both local and U.S. currency; multiple industry identifiers like SIC, NAICS, and NACE; original filings and images; detailed company ownership information, including directors, advisors, auditors, board members, thresholds for beneficial ownership, and other contacts; company patents; detailed M&A information, including rumors; information on private equity; peer group reports; independent market research; and batch data searching. Combined with its unique portfolio of data described above, Bureau van Dijk is the only vendor who also provides the ability to search more than one company at a time using a combination of keywords, financial measures, data ranges, and other compound criteria. It is also the only vendor that provides company news; news linked to company websites; and links to specific country-by country profiles. In addition, Bureau van Dijk is the only vendor that provides detailed company-by-company economic analysis, including M&A deals and rumors; original filings and scanned document images; ownership trees and parent-subsidiary linkages; financial indicators for peer groups; and data specific to credit analysis.