Question Answers- 70SBUR22Q00000031.pdf
PDF 83 KB Posted
- Attached to
- USCIS Media Monitoring
- Solicitation number
- 70SBUR22Q00000031
About this file
This document contains questions from industry vendors and answers from the government regarding solicitation number 70SBUR22Q00000031 for USCIS Media Monitoring services. The recompete contract has an estimated value between $500,000 to $1,000,000 and requires the awardee to monitor over 1,600 daily clippings across major US media outlets. The awardee will provide a daily briefing summarizing top immigration and USCIS news stories with links to full articles, as well as ad hoc media summaries upon request up to 26 times per year. The solicitation seeks a sample executive briefing summary for January 10, 2022 addressing evaluation factor 1. Clarification was provided that daily briefings need only include story recaps and links, while media summaries should also contain sentiment analysis and impressions. The Department of Homeland Security US Citizenship and Immigration Services is the contracting agency.
View the file
Other files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| 70SBUR22Q00000031 Amendment 0001.pdf | ||
| 70SBUR22Q00000031.pdf |
On GovTribe
Work with this file
- Download the original file
- Contacts named in this file
- Similar government files
- Ask GovTribe AI about this file
Text version
Industry Questions and Government Answers Regarding Media Monitoring Note: If there is a conflict between an answer provided and the final Request for Quote (RFQ) and/or it’s attachments, the final RFQ with attachments takes precedence.
1. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “Is this a new contract, in whole or in part, or a recompete of a current or expired contract? If there's a prior contract, please identify the incumbent contractor(s).”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: Recompete of an expired contract. The incumbent prime contractor was Cision.
2. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “Has a budget or cost range been established for this purchase order? If so, kindly share it with us.”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: Forecast Record Number: F2021054196 was updated on 12/10/2021 and has an estimated dollar range of $500,000‐$1,000,000”.
3. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “The instructions for Volume I requires one summary as an Executive Briefing Summary that addresses evaluation factor 1. The summary shall be the news analysis for the date quotes are due. It's unclear if USCIS is requesting proposers to provide a sample Executive Briefing Summary for the major topics indicated in Attachment 1, Task 5(a)ii. Please clarify exactly what Volume 1 shall include.”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: Volume 1 shall include an actual version of what quoters would provide to the government as a daily news briefing with the working date of 01/10/2022 per RFQ
70SBUR22Q00000031.
4. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “For the daily briefings, does OPA seek any additional information besides the links to the clippings and stories? For example, would media impressions, sentiment analysis or any other qualitative/quantitative report need to be provided for each clipping?”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: Not for the daily briefing but would be included in the media summary requests.
5. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “What is an estimate or range of the average number of daily clippings and stories available on SCIS major topics?”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: USCIS receives an average of 16‐18 clips per day.
6. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “Does OPA have a platform or media database of preference for monitoring clippings and stories?”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: No.
7. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “Does OPA have a definition of what it considers to be major US media outlets that are to be monitored daily? Is this defined by regions, size of the media outlet, readership or viewership etc?”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: Currently, USCIS receives clips from small and large media/newspaper markets because citizenship and immigration issues effect both densely populated areas and rural
Industry Questions and Government Answers Regarding Media Monitoring Note: If there is a conflict between an answer provided and the final Request for Quote (RFQ) and/or it’s attachments, the final RFQ with attachments takes precedence.
sparsely populated areas. USCIS uses the Nielson Designated Market Area number as the benchmark for media markets which is currently 210.
8. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “For the 'Top News" category of the major topics to be monitored, please clarify if this would include top general news or top news in a particular category or industry such as business or foreign affairs.”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: “Top news” shall be the most covered story for the day as it relates to immigration and USCIS.
9. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “Please elaborate on what OPA seeks in an executive news summary. Is this a summary of each day's clippings as part of the daily briefings?”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: The offeror should provide a table of contents which list the major stories that are highlighted for the days clips including a Top News heading and other headings as appropriate (i.e. USCIS in the news, Citizenship, DACA etc.).
Each heading will then have a corresponding section that list recaps of the news outlet coverage and a link to the story itself.
10. INDUSTRY QUESTION: “Are the media summaries only prepared upon request or is it also to be included in the daily briefings?”
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE: Media summaries are prepared upon request up to 26 times per year.
File details come from the government source that posted it. Updated .