SOURCES SOUGHT
76 -- Entrepreneurship Database
- Notice Date
- 6/28/2023 2:24:06 PM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 516210
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- Contracting Office
- FA8052 773 ESS SAN ANTONIO TX 78236-0119 USA
- ZIP Code
- 78236-0119
- Solicitation Number
- FA805223PRE48
- Response Due
- 7/15/2023 1:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 07/30/2023
- Point of Contact
- Brenda Palmer, Rene Boissiere
- E-Mail Address
-
Brenda.palmer@us.af.mil, rene.boissiere.2@us.af.mil
(Brenda.palmer@us.af.mil, rene.boissiere.2@us.af.mil)
- Description
- 1.���������� Must provide manuals database provides information contains over 1,000 of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs. New plans are added quarterly. 2.���������� Must provide an indexed collection of small business-focused eBooks from professional sources and publishing partners, including Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management, and Small Business Management 3.���������� Must provide articles from hundreds of journals and magazines like The Economist, Inc., Financial Management, and The Tax Adviser. Content from local and national newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Denver Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Investor's Business Daily. 4.���������� Must provide easily located thousands of associations, consultants, consulting organizations, trade shows, business information sources, and more. 5.���������� Must provide over 2,200 key business-specific terms are defined for quick reference, replacing the generic dictionary link. 6.���������� Must provide websites that are vetted, fully indexed, topically relevant, and annotated website listings provide helpful links to outside resources and articles related to current campaigns. 7.���������� Must provide listen in-product or download podcasts, radio shows, and more. 8.���������� Must provide a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit with a dashboard that walks users through five areas of exploration to develop a business plan focused on long-term success. 9.���������� Must provide access to a database of legal forms database that interface with the DoD Libraries. 10.�������� Must be able to provide more than 400 full-text periodicals, more than 450 full-text reference books with original photos and illustrations, and more than 630 business videos 11.�������� Must include reference material on state-specific resources, business basics, start-up kit and business plans, Industry information by small business type, and provide a user-friendly interface 12.�������� Must offer readers a collection of state-specific resources supported with demographic data and other local information. 13.�������� Business videos must include interviews, ""lessons learned"" features, lectures and how-to videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business. 14.�������� The database needs to have a discovery layer, the ability to sort by source types and publication date, subject thesaurus, and viewed in HTML or PDF. Search functionality should be by keyword, Boolean/phrase, options to limit by keyword or phrase, capability to cite, export, and Permalink functionality sustainable URL to return to original article. 15.�������� Customer convenience services should include online help, search and browse, option to save, print, and email information, and save search histories and results. Access to information should be seamless, minimal response time between query initiation and query results, and search results within 5-10 seconds. 16.�������� Must provide current business owners or new entrepreneurs progress through the guided workflow 17.�������� Must provide over 400 highly curated links to resources that will inform and assist them in completing business planning activities. 18.�������� Must provide a tool that helps users explore what they can bring to the table as an entrepreneur and assess where they stand in preparing to start a business. A one-page summary of them as an entrepreneur is generated. 19.�������� Must enable user to employ tools to plan the high-level framework in which their business will operate. 20.�������� Must be able to deliver insight to determine when a user�s business will be able to cover expenses and begin to realize a profit. 21.�������� Must enable users to create a plan that can be presented to potential investors and lenders, including executive summaries, business plans, and strategic marketing plans. 22.�������� Must be able to provide robust analysis of a company�s financial future encompassing capital expenditures, sales, equity, taxes, inventory and more. 23.�������� Must be able to provide specific tools and features aligned closely to the needs of the social entrepreneur 24.�������� Must be able to interface with all four (4) DoD service branch library and Military OneSource websites using industry standard authentication methods to ensure only eligible patrons can access resources from any internet connected computer browsers and mobile devices. 25.�������� Must work with contract point-of-contact to establish authentication methods to provide optimal accessibility for all eligible patrons. 26.�������� Security between the Website and server must be Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 27.�������� Must be able to supply or allow retrieval of database usage statistics by Branch of Service (Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Military OneSource/Other, and Navy) 28.�������� Must have HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) with long duration deployed on the servers to mitigate/prevent man-in-the-middle attacks 29.�������� Website certificates should be RSA 2048-bits (SHA256withRSA)
- Web Link
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- Record
- SN06731053-F 20230630/230629060349 (samdaily.us)
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