ID08160091_Attach_3_PWS.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AGENCY

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE TRACKING TOOL

Dated

September 12, 2016

Solicitation #ID08160091

Performance Work Statement Congressional Legislative Tool

1.0 DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:

1.1 Introduction: The purpose of this non-personal services contract is to obtain services for Congressional updates in support the Defense Health Agency Program Integration Division. Program Integrations mission to advocate and defend the ASD(HA)’s priorities to Congress and within the DoD, worldwide; proactively communicate and coordinate with members of Congress and their staff; and effectively communicate with DoD staff about health-related legislative issues.

1.2 Scope of Work- To provide an online web-based legislative tool that allows up to seven (7) - users access to legislative alerts, notifications, charts, actual committee reports, testimony transcripts, budget and law tracking, current united states code, and congressional bill analysis for state and federal legislative, hearing transcripts, tracking congressional member votes, budget information, legislative attendance, online assistance

2.0 Work Description Requirements: The contractor shall provide:

2.1 An online web-based legislative tool with the following features:

2.1.1 Tracks legislative process from introduction to Public law

2.1.2 US Code and Federal Regulation Tracker accessibility that is at a minimum searchable by title and section, key word and citation number

2.1.3 Online accessibility of congressional member votes within 24 hours of legislative bill posting.

2.1.4 Detailed congressional bill analysis for state and federal legislation.

2.1.5 Online assistance.

2.1.6 Immediate alert notification of any changes to House or Senate appropriations bills for regular appropriations bills, continuing resolutions, and supplemental appropriations bills.

2.1.7 Daily automated Congressional hearing subscriber alerts.

2.1.8 Congressional member legislative attendance and votes.

2.1.9 Online accessibility to daily news briefings, conferences magazines, radio and television broadcasts.

2.1.10 Congressional summaries that include members, witnesses, opening statements, testimonies and questions and answers, when applicable.

2.1.11 Custom legislative alerts within two (2) hours and charts that allow customer to specify types of information required.

2.1.12 Real-time status of legislation.

2.1.13 Capability to save searches and/or provide reports.

2.1.14 Custom Congressional bill and amendment analysis within 24 hours.

2.1.15 Access to all congressional committee reports.

2.1.16 Access to congressional archives from at least calendar year 2000 to current and future years.

2.1.17 Verbatim and submitted legislative testimony hearing transcripts that include at a minimum markups, discussions, roundtables, conferences etc. available within 24 hours.

2.1.18 Custom committee full-text reports, bill summaries, member profiles from 99th Congress.

2.1.19 Monitoring and tracking, news and analysis of Federal budget & appropriations legislative.

2.1.20 Real-time Congressional updates and tracker.

2.1.21 Legislative tracking and alerts on key amendments, bills.

2.1.22 Alerts to subscribers with up-to-date Congressional hearing schedules.

2.1.23 On-line user training and assistance available at a Monday thru Friday (excluding weekends and Federal Holidays) during the hours of 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone).

2.1.24 Online tool operational and accessible downtime is no more than once per month This is applicable to downtime accessibility being determined it was contractor’s responsibility

3.0 Service Summary:

4.0 Government Furnished Property/Equipment: N/A

5.0 General Requirements. The contractor shall:

5.1 Provide Online-Web based tool accessible 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

Ref No.

PWS

Task Ref

Required Performance Service Performance Standard

1 2.1.11 Legislative alerts Available within 2 hours

2 2.17 Transcript timeliness Available within 24 hours

3 2.1.24 User Web-based Access Once per month downtime

4 5.1 Online-Web Based access 24 hours per day/7 days per week