SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Web/Relevance Feedback/Sessions Task
- Notice Date
- 5/17/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- NB894020-A-04865
- Archive Date
- 6/16/2010
- Point of Contact
- Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
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keith.bubar@nist.gov
(keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Background: The Retrieval Group (Information Access Division/Information Technology Laboratory) at the United States Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) runs large-scale evaluations of information retrieval systems such as document retrieval, question answering, and summarization systems. The work of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory, Information Access Division Retrieval Group includes the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). One of the main goals of TREC is to promote research in information retrieval (IR) by providing appropriate test collections. IR test collections consist of three parts: a set of documents, a set of information needs called "topics" that can be answered by some of the documents in the document set, and a set of relevance assessments that lists for each topic the set of documents that are relevant to that topic. Contractor personnel play a vital role in the development of a test collection for they are responsible for two of the three components: the topics and the relevance assessments. The original task in TREC was known as the "ad hoc" task. This task tests a system's ability to retrieve relevant documents on a wide variety of previously unspecified subjects. Typically, an ad hoc test collection includes fifty topics, each with a large number of relevance assessments. The goal of the "Web" track is to examine the kinds of searches that happen on the web. The "Relevance Feedback" track examines how well systems can improve their performance when given examples of known relevant documents along with a query. The "Sessions" track examines the common phenomenon where a searcher issues more than one query for a single search need. The document collection for the Web, Relevance Feedback, and Session tracks is a collection of one billion web pages collected by Carnegie Mellon University in the early part of 2009, as part of an NSF program to make a large web crawl available to researchers. This collection is meant to represent the top tier of a major web search engine's collection. However, the research community is still learning how to work at that scale - around 25 terabytes of text. The end result of this project is to use the information gathered from the Contractor personnel to modify, test or improve exiting search engines and also to develop new state of the art search engines. Also, this information is shared with universities around the USA that are developing new ways to search for data on the web. This project is part of the NIST mission of "promoting U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement in science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life". With this project NIST seeks to advance the existing technology and to help create new technologies that help to improve our way of life. Scope of this Acquisition: This presolicitation notice is for a noncommercial services acquisition for work in the area of search engine research in an effort to improve existing information retrieval systems. The focus of this requirement is the Web/Relevance Feedback/Sessions area. NIST intends to solicit this acquisition under the procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures (which are for acquisitions valued up to $100,000). NIST also intends to compete this acquisition as a Total Small Business Set Aside under the NAICS code 541990, with a small business size standard of $7.0 million. The period of performance is anticipated to be less than one year. The Government intends to utilize the labor-hour contract type for these services because it is not possible for the Government to estimate accurately the extent or duration of the work or to anticipate costs with a reasonable degree of confidence. Availability of Solicitation: NIST intends to post the solicitation on www.fbo.gov on or about 16 days after this notice is posted. Quotations will be due no later than approximately 17 days after the solicitation is posted on www.fbo.gov. Requirement for Active Registration in CCR: Each Offeror must have an active registration at www.ccr.gov to be eligible to receive an award under this acquisition. All questions regarding this acquisition shall be directed by email to the primary point of contact: Keith Bubar at keith.bubar@nist.gov.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN02152081-W 20100519/100517235142-dcea7ce79f2ec96d966f2ab4475a895d (fbodaily.com)
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