SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Trade Violation Detection Software
- Notice Date
- 2/23/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of Financial Management-Procurement, Procurement Operations and Policy, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20581, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- RPIT-07-CO-0110
- Description
- CFTC intends to issue a Request for Proposals for commercial off the shelf (COTS) software for trade violation detection. BACKGROUND: The Commission's overall mission is to ensure market integrity and customer protection in the futures markets through effective oversight. To accomplish this mission, the Division of Market Oversight (DMO) staff engages in various analyses to profile trading activity and conduct investigations to detect and prosecute possible trading abuses. These functions all require the collection of trade data and the ability to process those data in various ways for further analysis. In this regard, the Commission currently operates the Exchange Database System (EDBS), a system developed to process and maintain information concerning trade activity at each U.S. futures exchange. The primary function of EDBS is to collect and make trade data accessible to futures trading specialists and investigators so that they can retrieve, organize, and analyze trade data to assess compliance with the Commodity Exchange Act, Commission regulations, and exchange rules. A new trade violation detection tool will assist staff in conducting timely, customized trading analyses and detecting novel, sophisticated and complex patterns of potential trading violations. The trade violation detection tool will also allow the Commission to quickly respond to fast-moving market events. DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUIREMENT: The new trade violation detection tool, applied to a SQL database for electronic and open outcry exchange trade data, must identify and score potential trade practice abuses and alert DMO staff whenever such a potential abuse has been found. The software must also enable DMO staff to perform initial analysis of the data in order to assess the legitimacy of the potential abuse. A trade violation detection tool should have the capability to automatically detect and flag specific trade execution patterns and trade anomalies; compute, retain, and compare trading statistics; compute trade gains, losses, and futures-equivalent positions; reconstruct the sequence of market activity; perform inter-market and intra-market analyses; and support users to perform specialized analyses and ad hoc queries. This announcement is not a request for proposal (RFP). Offerors are advised that questions regarding this pre-solicitation notice should be held until the RFP is posted. CFTC anticipates the release of the RFP on or about March 23, 2007, and it will be available on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website at http://www.fedbizopps.gov for all interested parties.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20581
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20581
- Record
- SN01237405-W 20070225/070223220116 (fbodaily.com)
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