RFQ_Attachment_1_-_Requirements_List.pdf

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation 50310218Q0055

Attachment 1: Requirements List Legislative Tracking Subscription

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires subscription to a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) platform that provides U.S. Congressional legislative tracking information and publications via a single web interface.

The subscription shall provide online access to the following publications, news and analysis, and information:

• Weekly publication that provides news and analysis on government, politics, and public policy, and a summary of Capitol Hill activity from the previous week

• Daily publication that provides a wrap-up of all the previous day's Hill news including floor activity, hearings, all markups, and behind-the-scenes developments

• Congressional Research Service (CRS) publications, including CRS Bill Digest and CRS

Reports;

• Congressional Record, in full text 1995 – present, and in abstracted form;

• Profiles of all members of Congress, including committee assignments, voting records, interest group ratings, amendments, and floor speeches;

• Full-text of all printed bill versions, and summaries and analyses of all bills before Congress

• Transcripts of House and Senate committee and subcommittee hearings.

The service shall provide the following features:

• Continuously updated, detailed daily and future listings of all scheduled floor, committee and subcommittee actions, plus other related Washington events;

• Detailed legislative histories of bills with links to related bills;

• Ability to compile floor vote information historically to see how members voted and to create voting scorecards;

• Real-time vote tally;

• News coverage and reports of committee meetings, markups and hearings, plus agendas and witness lists for committee hearings;

• Committee hearing notices;

• Complete House, Senate, joint and conference committee reports, including charts and tables;

• Text of committee amendments, technical amendments, and amendments that are printed, but not offered; are approved, but not adopted; or are adopted;

• Ability to research and track legislation;

• Ability to create customized email alert service based on any combination of services, such as a single word, bill title or number, member name, vote or committee list;

• Ability to provide email alerts in real time or at designated points during the day.

Training and Customer Support

The vendor shall provide training to Commission staff nationwide upon request. The vendor shall advise the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), in advance, of all training (including marketing) visits to any SEC location. The vendor shall provide a variety of training options to staff nationwide, including on-site individual or group training, telephonic training, web conferences, or self-paced e-learning modules.

The vendor shall provide customer support via telephone and e-mail.