SOURCES SOUGHT
76 -- Global Trade Atlas or Equal On-line Subscription
- Notice Date
- 12/14/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- SB1350-16-Q-00453
- Archive Date
- 1/1/2016
- Point of Contact
- Monica Brown, Phone: 2024820932
- E-Mail Address
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monica.brown@trade.gov
(monica.brown@trade.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The purpose of this Request for Information is to determine the companies capable of performing the effort described herein. 1. BACKGROUND: The International Trade Administration (ITA) of the Department of Commerce strengthens the competitiveness of U.S. industry, promotes trade and investment, and ensures fair trade through the rigorous enforcement of our trade laws and agreements. ITA is organized into three distinct but complementary business units: The Global Markets (GM) unit combines ITA's country and regional experts, overseas and domestic field staff, and specific trade promotion programs to provide U.S. firms with the full suite of country-specific export promotion services and market access advocacy, while promoting the United States as an investment destination. ITA Common Data Platform The Common Data Platform (CDP) is an ITA enterprise-wide Web information portal to which is critical to ITA's fulfillment of its trade and economic analysis mission. The platform provides guidance on data availability, usage, and standard business practices as well as serving as a collaborative tool. The CDP provides ITA-wide access, across the U.S. and around the world, to relevant news, information and data resources, identifies recommended resources, and outlines important citation procedures in an effort to promote accuracy and consistency in all ITA work. The goals of the CDP are to: • Increase the amount of high quality trade and economic data available to ITA users by identifying the best sources. • Broadening access to existing sources through DOC agency partnership agreements • Identifying opportunities to fund additional sources by aggregating purchasing. • Improve the quality of ITA analytical products by: o Providing guidance about the best data sources available for specific types of research and analysis o Standardizing the data sources used throughout the ITA to promote more uniform work products Through the CDP portal ITA staff members are linked to over 60 public and proprietary resources on industry, company, and country information, trade and economic data, and tariff and export trade schedules. 2. DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this sources sought is to obtain information for vendors that provide online subscriptions to Global Trade Atlas® (GTA) or an Equal Subscription containing a web-based application providing quick and efficient access to official merchandise trade data from the United States, major trading partners and other countries of interest with easy-to-use functions for searching, displaying, reporting and exporting data for trade analysis, trade counseling, and best prospective markets analysis. The requirements of the subscription are as follows: 1. Trade Data: Countries and Data Updates The subscription shall provide monthly merchandise export and import data for the following: The President's National Export Initiative (NEI) / Next 9 prioritized countries: China Brazil India Saudi Arabia Colombia Turkey Indonesia South Africa Vietnam ITA Current Subscription for monthly trade data from the following: Australia Brazil Canada Chile China Colombia El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Mexico Morocco Nicaragua Panama Peru Philippines Russia Singapore South Africa South Korea Thailand United States EU27 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Contractor shall offer monthly data for additional countries and have an active program to add monthly trade data for additional countries to meet possible future trade data needs. ITA may have future needs for monthly data from other countries including ITA U.S. Commercial Service office locations, such as: Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Burma, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon' Libya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay. The subscription shall provide annual merchandise export and import data for all countries reporting data to the United Nations. 2. Trade Data Content - The subscription shall provide the following trade data and related content for each country. - Official merchandise export and import data as reported by the reporting countries, providing by Harmonized System (HS) classification code the value, quantity and unit price in the reporting country's currency and units. The subscription software shall not standardize or manipulate the reported trade data. - Trade flows including exports, imports, trade balance and total trade by HS codes of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10-digits for monthly data and by HS codes of 2, 4, and 6-digits for annual data. - Scheduled updates to monthly and annual trade data as soon as the countries report (based on each country's reporting frequency) as well as issued revisions made to past data. - Official sources of data for each country with data collection explanation (e.g., if the data is reported on an FOB or CIF basis). 3. Additional Trade Data for the United States and Major Trade Partners Additional United States Trade Data The subscription shall provide the following: - Exports and imports data for U.S. states monthly 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10-digit HS data - Total exports data for U.S. states by country of destination for monthly data to a 6-digit HS codes and quarterly to 4-digit NAICS basis. - U.S. trade data by customs district, transportation mode (air, container, vessel), port or trade program (GSP, NAFTA, etc.) and partner country - Detailed data on U.S. imports entering under trade preference programs. Additional Trade Data for Major Trade Partners The subscription shall provide the following: -Trade data by China District and transportation mode - Trade data by Canada Province and transportation mode. - Trade data by International ports 4. Trade Analysis Functions and Features The subscription shall provide the following trade analysis functions and features for ease of use, quicker results and user-based customization. - Search for HS codes by keyword or browse the HS hierarchy - Search on trade balance by country or HS code. - Create and save user-defined product and country groupings for searching and reporting for use when industries cut across various HS chapters or for customized analysis of regions or groups of countries. - Customize the time period to view trade data - Save queries and user-specified reports - Use of dynamic excel, mapping features, and further adjustments necessary to access trade data on mobile devises - Archive all reports as PDF files. - Select and export data to Excel or in CSV or plain text format, for customized user analysis - Set up data revision alerts 5. Special Customization for ITA Enforcement and Compliance (E&C) The subscription shall support E&C access to: -Set a custom time period between 2 and 18 months in length -Append Excel files for downloading large amounts of data -Account specific to the Philippines to download especially large amounts of data (including freight and insurance data necessary for Anti-Dumping case calculations). -Download files to SAS program and process all surrogate values for AD cases. 6. User Support and Training Contractor shall provide account support to the ITA CDP Team including: -Individual dedicated Account Manager for product support and discuss trade analysis - Support available via email, teleconferences, in-person presentations - Usage statistics by user as well as ITA business unit will be provided on a frequency as instructed by the ITA CDP Team -Training webinars scheduled during working hours of ITA worldwide staff 3. INSTRUCTIONS This is a REQUEST FOR INFORMATION. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. This RFI is in support of market research being conducted by NIST to identify potential capable sources. NIST intends to award a firm fixed price contract for this effort. Contractors responding to this notice shall submit the following information to Monica Brown, Contracting Officer, at monica.brown@trade.gov Response Date: 2:00 pm on Thursday, December 17th EST by email to Monica Brown, Contracting Officer monica.brown@trade.gov Submission contents: 1. Company Information to include: a. Points of contact, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers b. Identification as a large U.S. business, small U.S. business, or foreign business c. Contract number under any GSA Schedule, if available. 2. Summary of related capabilities information based upon the questions listed below. It should be brief and concise. Limit responses to a total page limit of ten (10) 8 ½" x 11" pages. Pages shall be single-spaced and one-sided. Font shall be Times New Roman and no smaller than 10 pt with at least a one-inch margin. Electronic submissions must be in a Microsoft Word compatible format. 3. Past Experience: Provide no more than 3 examples of relevant company experience within the past three (3) years. No more than 3 pages per example. a. Company/division name b. Program/Project Name c. Contracting Agency d. Contract Number e. Type of Contract f. Period of Performance g. Original and Current Contract Value h. Brief description of the contract effort, indicating whether it was development and/or production i. Name, address, and telephone number of Government Program Manager/Director, Administrative Contracting Officer, Procuring Contracting Officer 4. Any other information you deem necessary to evaluate your capabilities. The following questions must be answered and elaborated on as part of the package: 1. Describe what countries will be available for access. 2. Describe how often data is updated for the President's NEI countries. 3. Describe ability to provide access to U.S. State level data. 4. Describe ability to access metro area data. 5. Describe the HS code search abilities and features. 6. Describe any pre-set and easy search functions to include keywords. 7. Describe access to Port data both domestic and international. 8. Describe how often the display data per country is updated. Monthly, quarterly, annually, biannually, etc. 9. Describe ability to customize data. 10. Describe ability to download data into excel for user analysis. 11. Describe ability to access unedited raw data/statistics for the countries specified. 12. Confirm that the database is Section 508 compliant 4. PLACE/PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE Contractor shall provide delivery of the subscription thru a URL link from the CDP Page on the ITA Central Intranet using IP authentication. User Support and training service deliver be provided to the CDP Team remotely through webinars for training, email and telephone. CDP Team Project Manager is located at 14th and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230. The period of performance is a twelve (12) month base plus four (4) option years starting on February 29, 2016. 5. Security Requirements The Contractor shall use IP authentication for ITA user access by a URL link placed on ITA Central (intranet). The subscription shall be delivered via a link to the vendor's Web-based, online system. Any information submitted by respondents to this sources sought is strictly voluntary. The Government will not reimburse the respondents for any costs associated with their response. This synopsis does not constitute a Request for Proposals/Quotes nor does its issuance restrict the Government as to its ultimate acquisition approach. The Government reserves the right to contact the submitting parties on an as required basis for further clarification on material provided. If at least two (2) responsible small business concerns are determined by the Government to be capable of performing this requirement based on an evaluation of the capability packages submitted by the due date above, the requirement will be solicited as a set-aside for small business concerns. If capability packages are not received from at least two responsible small business concerns by the response date or if the Government determines that less than two small businesses are capable of performing this requirement based upon an evaluation of the packages submitted this requirement will not be solicited as a small business set aside. If vendors that has a current GSA schedule contract are determined to be capable this procurement may be solicited under provisions of FAR Part 8 (GSA Schedules).
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