65310219N00001_RFI_BTA.pdf

Request for Information 65310219N00001 for

Maritime Trade Data Service

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is the independent federal agency responsible for regulating the U.S. international ocean transportation system for the benefit of U.S. exporters, importers, and the U.S. consumer. The FMC’s mission is to foster a fair, efficient and reliable international ocean transportation system and to protect the public from unfair and deceptive practices.

This Request for Information (RFI) it is for information or planning purposes.

52.215-3 -- Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (Oct 1997)

(a) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

(b) Although “proposal” and “offeror” are used in this Request for Information, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal.

(c) This RFI is issued for the following purpose.

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is conducting market research to determine if there are industry sources that can provide aggregated data on a monthly basis on waterborne imports and exports moving through ports in the United States to and from worldwide foreign ports. The information required is as follows:

(1) Data aggregated from ocean bills of lading to include:

a. All imports and exports

b. All steamship lines (name and 4-character codes)

c. All vessel names

Federal Maritime Commission 800 North Capitol Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20573

d. All U.S. ports

e. All countries and foreign ports (the data shall include the load port and country of origin for imports, and discharge port and country of final destination for exports.)

f. Commodity information to the 4-digit level using Harmonized Codes and description

g. Cargo volume in TEUs and metric tons

h. Containerized cargo flag (indicates whether a shipment is containerized or not)

i. Refrigerated (“reefer”) flag

j. Non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) cargo flag

(2) Accurate monthly data is required to be delivered to the FMC or made available for download with notification of availability provided, with no more than eight weeks (56 days) lag time from the end of each month.

(3) Suggests that data be provided in Microsoft Access format with backward compatibility to 2003, or in a format that conforms to the existing FMC database.

(4) Suggests that data be downloaded via FTP or from CD or DVD to be imported into an FMC in-house database.

(5) Suggests that data be in a format where data can be manipulated into various reports and specific time periods.

(6) Provided data will be considered the property of the FMC for purposes of report compilation and the development of a historical library.

(7) Provide appropriate look-up tables for all codes used, such as shipping lines, port codes (U.S.

and foreign), and Harmonized Commodity codes, etc.

(8) Provide technical assistance to include, but is not limited to, answering questions regarding provided data.

Interested parties that believe they can provide such services are encouraged to provide their technical capability statement which clearly demonstrates their ability to provide the required services to mcalhoun@fmc.gov, by May 13, 2019, 5pm EST. REFERENCE No.

65310219N00001.

mailto:mcalhoun@fmc.gov