Notice of Intent to Sole Source 25MS000212
Summary
AI-generated · Sep 04, 2025A 12-month firm-fixed-price subscription to Moody’s Orbis bundle for three users is being pursued as a sole-source award under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (FAR 13.5). Orbis provides Moody’s proprietary datasets (including GRID risk screening, Cyber Risk rating, and T-Rank Power and Coalitions) to illuminate shareholder control structures and surface shell companies.
Access will allow querying and surfacing data within Moody’s dataset and templated vendor profiles with firmographic details and risk indicators, plus alerting/notification features and extensive public and private company information, ownership structures, stakeholders and decision-makers, and financial data. It also covers mergers and acquisitions, patents/IP, cyber risk, sanctions, links to state-owned entities, negative media, and shell-company indicators. This notice is informational; responses must demonstrate capability with convincing evidence, not just a request for documentation, and responses are due within eight calendar days. If no capable responses are received, a sole-source award may be made.
The Department of Energy, the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), intends to issue a firm fixed price sole source award utilizing Simplified Acquisition Procedures per FAR 13.5 for Certain Commercial Products and Commercial Services to Moody's to acquire a subscription to Moody's Orbis bundle software product for access to its analytical platform for three (3) users. Orbis has proprietary products for its GRID risk screening database, Cyber Risk rating, and T-Rank Power and Coalitions to illuminate shareholder control structures and has developed risk indicators to surface Shell Companies. The anticipated period of performance is twelve (12) months. The platform access shall allow MESC users the ability to query and surface data within the Contractor s cultivated dataset as well as templatized vendor profiles that provide individual or entity firmographic details and industry-leading risk indicators, alerting and notification features, public and private company data, extensive corporate ownership structures, information on stakeholders and decision-makers connected to companies, and financial data. MESC also requires access to data on mergers and acquisitions, patents and intellectual property, cyber risk, sanctions, links to state owned entities, negative media, and shell company indicators. This notice of intent is for informational purposes only. All sources eligible to meet this requirement must respond in writing. Responses must be supported with strong and convincing evidence that clearly articulates the company s ability to satisfy this requirement as outlined above. A request for documentation will not be considered as an affirmative response. If no responses that demonstrate comparable capability are received within eight (8) calendar days after publication of this notice, then a sole source acquisition award will be made. Responses to this notice must be sent to patrick.witte@hq.doe.gov and janette.carter@hq.doe.gov.
From Special Notice posted on Sep 02, 2025Notice history
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Place of Performance
USA