Attachment 1 - Draft SOW - Factiva API.pdf

Sources Sought Notice: 50310225Q0066 Attachment – Draft Statement of Work

Factiva Content Application Programming Interface

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires Factiva Content Application Programming Interface (API) to search and retrieve news and related information.

1. Factiva API

Factiva content shall include articles, images (pictures), PDF files and HTML files.

Factiva searches are used in Enforcement investigations to gather data on potential violations and violators of law. The data accessed via API will be used for the same purpose. The SEC requires API access to an internal application to facilitate better workflow for investigators. API access allows the data to be visualized within the application and facilitate future uses of machine learning technology.

The system shall provide the capability to seamlessly authenticate users who submit searches via SEC applications, perform searches, use SSL 256-bit encryption, and return searches directly to the SEC application.

The API shall provide endpoints to retrieve:

• Individual complete news articles.

• A set of complete news articles.

• A curated collection of news articles.

• Search results using a string.

• Search results using accession numbers.

10,000 searches per month 120,000 searches annually

2. Usage Reports.

The vendor shall provide usage statistics consisting of the number of API calls charged to the account upon request and at least on a quarterly basis.

3. SEC Usage

The Contractor acknowledges and agrees to the following:

The SEC anticipates using the data and/or materials to conduct analyses for use in reports, studies, memoranda, and presentations. The SEC anticipates the following types of situations where analyses based on the underlying data may be made public: by the SEC itself (e.g., SEC rulemaking and/or analysis done as part of an inspection or enforcement action), by SEC staff where the SEC is directing or facilitating the publication (e.g., a staff study in response to a Congressional request), by SEC staff facilitating their own private publication where the Commission has not taken a position regarding the publication of the analysis (e.g., a research report to be submitted by the individual staff to an academic conference or journal), and by a former employee of the SEC who has substantially completed the analysis while on staff and is facilitating his/her own private publication (e.g., a research report to be submitted to an academic conference or journal).

In all of these situations, only “insubstantial amounts” of the licensed data and/or materials would be made public and no raw data would be made public, the authors would agree to abide by all contractual terms and conditions, and as the owner/licensor of the data the Contractor would receive attribution and be cited as the data source. “Insubstantial amounts” means an amount that has no independent commercial value and could not be used as a substitute for the service or product or any part of it.

3. Customer Support.

The vendor shall provide customer support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, via a toll-free number.