# Justification for Award of Single Source Purchase Order to Markit North America

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/50310225q0071

- Solicitation number: 50310225P0020
- Notice type: Justification (first published as special notice)
- Status: Awarded to Markit North America Inc.
- Department: Securities and Exchange Commission
- Contracting office: Securities and Exchange Commission (503102)
- NAICS: 519290 Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services
- Product or service code: B506 Data Analysis (other than scientific)
- Place of performance: Washington, District of Columbia
- County: District of Columbia (FIPS 11001). https://abierto.us/counties/district-of-columbia-dc-11001
- City: Washington. https://abierto.us/cities/washington-dc-1150000
- First posted: June 10, 2025
- Last posted: September 2, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6bde95aad41e4793bfbab85d31b30412/view

## Description

The SEC requires a service that will deliver credit default swap (CDS) reference data, including information on entities, obligations, corporate actions and credit events.

The data will be delivered through the Wharton WRDS platform and will include the following key features: (1) unique identification codes for CDS reference entities, (2) unique identification codes for pairs of CDS reference entities and reference obligations, (3) information on the legal relationship between a reference entity and a reference obligation, (4) verified corporate events (e.g., corporate actions, CDS succession events, credit events) that potentially affect the pricing and trading of CDSs, (5) unique identification codes for CDS indexes, and (6) verified information on CDS indexes and the constituents of CDS indexes including updated weighting and index factors upon a credit event. The period of performance for the firm-fixed price purchase order is one (1) base year with four (4) one (1) year options.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Markit North America Inc. (UEI ZL66R2HGNH21)
- Contract: 50310225P0020, purchase order
- Obligated: $109,808.00
- Competition: Not Competed Under SAP, 1 offers received
- Link: award number 50310225P0020 equals the contract number; same awarding office 503102 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_50310225P0020_5000_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- June 10, 2025: Special notice, due June 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT. Notice 91a7e59d24c94da7ac32ff669a149f1b. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/91a7e59d24c94da7ac32ff669a149f1b/view
- July 29, 2025: Justification. Notice 83337060aa884a95a4cea7144c9b0f7f. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/83337060aa884a95a4cea7144c9b0f7f/view
- September 2, 2025: Justification. Notice 425ef083f3b940be879389ae5434772c. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/425ef083f3b940be879389ae5434772c/view
- September 2, 2025: Justification. Notice 6bde95aad41e4793bfbab85d31b30412. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6bde95aad41e4793bfbab85d31b30412/view

## Points of contact

- Takela Morris, morrist@sec.gov
- Flanice Lewis, lewisf@sec.gov

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