SOURCES SOUGHT
76 -- Sources Sought - Datastream for the Office of Financial Research (OFR)
- Notice Date
- 11/4/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Avery 5F, 200 Third Street, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26106-5312, United States
- ZIP Code
- 26106-5312
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-OFR-17-006
- Archive Date
- 12/2/2016
- Point of Contact
- Brandon Burnworth,
- E-Mail Address
-
purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov
(purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Bureau of Fiscal Service, on behalf of the Office of Financial Research (OFR), Department of the Treasury, is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support a requirement for business and financial information subscription services. The OFR is the principal government agency tasked with financial research to ensure a transparent, efficient, and stable financial system. The contractor must provide a portal for streamed data, with a downloadable financial data solution without data caps (download size limitations). All downloaded data must be capable of being exported to Excel as well as common statistical and data analytic packages such as Mat Lab and Python. Terminal based solutions are not acceptable. The OFR requires the following types of data: Fundamental Data: This type of data consists of United States and global financial data from quarterly and annual reports, benchmarks, and annual performance information. Data is required back to 1985 for US financial data and 1996 for foreign companies. Examples of such data include: annual and interim/quarterly data, detailed historical financial statement content, per share data, calculated ratios, pricing, text information, major benchmark indexes worldwide; fully adjusted pricing and dividends information, including high, low, close, price/earnings ratio, yield, earnings per share, market value, volume traded & shares outstanding. Ownership Data: This data consists of ownership data for companies, funds, and transaction data. Data is required with the maximum historical coverage and for the period 2003 to present at a minimum. Pricing Data: US and global market pricing data from 1980 (or prior) for markets, over the counter (OTC) equities and other financial instruments, exchange traded pricing for equities, bonds, futures, options, and fixed income financial instruments. Corporate and economic event data: Calendar of significant events 90 or more days in the future and historical events (e.g., stock splits and the like) back to 2007 or earlier. Classification data: Classification data for corporations, businesses and funds such as legal entity identifiers and proprietary classification data. All parties are welcome to respond, but the primary purpose of this sources sought is to determine whether there are any businesses, especially small businesses, capable of providing the service. Vendors are invited to provide any current contracts they hold against which the government can place an order - e.g., GSA Schedule, Fedlink, etc. which can satisfy the aforementioned requirement described herein. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System code assigned to this procurement is 519190, All Other Information Services THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals. Submission of any information in response to this market research is purely voluntary, and the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs interested parties may incur. Interested parties shall provide a capability statement. The capabilities statement shall not exceed twenty five (25) pages in length. Pages shall be no larger than 8.5" x 11" in size, and the font no smaller than 10 points in size. Marketing materials may be included as part of the capability statement. Interested parties shall provide the following information in their capability statements: 1. Their company's name, address, email address, website address, telephone number, and point of contact; 2. Vendors shall submit a description of their product offering and how it meets the requirements of this notice - e.g., data fields, perhaps screenshots of the portal, public price lists, etc. (whatever the vendor believes the OFR needs to evaluate if the product meets the Government's needs). 3. Size and type of company ownership (i.e., small business, 8(a) business development participants, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned, and economically disadvantaged women-owned, and women-owned small business); 4. Their Dun and Bradstreet Number; 5. Their CAGE Code; 6. Suggested North American Industry Classification System code; 7. A succinct description of three (3) current or past contracts or task orders within the past three (3) years that identify the company's ability to provide the financial information described above via a portal accessible download of the information in a format compatible with current common data analytic and statistical packages and Excel. Include the following information to substantiate past contracts or task orders: (a) Project Title; (b) Description of the dataset or database, (c) Contract/Task Order Number; (d) Contract/Task Order Amount; (e) Government Agency/Organization or Commercial entity (f) Contracting Officer Representative's name, address, telephone number, and email address; or contact information for the Commercial Buyer and (g) Current status, e.g., completed and/or in progress, start, and estimated completion dates. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by December 1, 2016 at 1400 (2:00 PM) ET. All questions concerning and responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov ATTN: B. Burnworth Contracting Office Address: 200 Third Street, A5-F Parkersburg, WV 26106 Place of Performance: Washington, District of Columbia United States Primary Point of Contact: Brandon Burnworth, Contracting Officer Bureau of the Fiscal Service OSS/DPS/PSB3 purchasing@fiscal.treasury.gov
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