1.1b Draft PWS Sources Sought.pdf

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

1.0 Background:

The US Navy is heavily engaged in supporting the U.S. Government on maritime domain awareness, anti-piracy, plans, programs, and operations as well as tracking seaborne trade and commodity flows globally. To effectively support these efforts, the US Navy requires access to highly accurate and detailed open source information on cargoes, commodity types, and the vessels, companies, ports and terminals that affect commodity cargo flows

In addition the US Navy is tasked with providing expert analysis on all aspects of civil maritime economic trade. Empirical examination of global trade provides indicators of the health of an economy and economic ties to other countries. Global trade is required at the highest level of detail reasonably possible within an integrated and frequently updated package in such a way that it seamlessly interfaces with maritime trade scenario modelling capabilities in order to support ongoing term and ad hoc strategic and tactical level analysis of current economic dependencies and vulnerabilities at both the national level as well as at the localized resource extraction level within the maritime domain.

Description of Scope: The US Navy has a requirement for online access to highly accurate and detailed near real time freight intelligence and commodity flow trade data. The global trade dataset shall support integrated planning, research, development and production of finished research and analysis on all aspects of maritime trade. Access to all data shall be available 24 hours 7 day a week.

2.0 Tasks: The contractor shall provide an online database tasks include:

Global Trade Data Base. The Contractor shall provide the U.S. Government with individual user accounts to access commercial online databases, which contains at a minimum the following capabilities:

2.1 Provide global visibility of traded cargoes by type, quantity, and value. Data updates shall be provided on the following frequencies:

2.1.1 Weekly and monthly updates for global visibility data of traded cargoes

2.1.2 Monthly updates of Non-U.S. Transactional Trade Data and Macro Trade Statistics

2.1.3 Quarterly updates of Trade Forecasting Data

2.2 Provide overall trade totals (quantity and value) for the exports and imports of individual countries.

2.3 Identify the mode of transportation, where feasible

2.4 The database shall provide robust data extraction and reporting tools, which shall include user-defined repeatable reports, shared reporting services, refreshable Excel workbooks, user-friendly dashboards accessible for all skill levels, and trade activity datasets that are easily cross-domainable.

2.5 Identify commodity classes by user–defined groups, and facilitate product/commodity lookup through:

- Keyword search feature allowing product identification within bill of lading shipments of interest

- HS Commodities Description searching enabling Bilateral Trade product search

2.6 Provide monthly impact assessment of trade developments by commodity, industry sector, and/or country, and other relevant factors.

3.0 Vendor Support Requirement:

Occasional training on an ad hoc basis may be requested from the provider at no additional cost to the Government. Training, if any, shall occur during normal working hours.

4.0 Data Quality Requirements

The vendor shall have a documented data validation process to ensure data integrity.