Legislative Affairs Subscription PWS.docx

Legislative Affairs Subscription Performance Work Statement (PWS)

1. Background The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Legislative Affairs (LA) provides strategic legislative advising, planning, and execution for DLA and is responsible for congressional planning, communications, and liaison for the Department of Defense's (DoD’s) logistics combat support agency. DLA consists of over 25,000 employees providing worldwide logistics support in both peacetime and wartime to the military services as well as several civilian agencies and foreign countries.

To accomplish this, DLA LA requires significant congressional information resources including: daily news and legislative information, congressional hearing transcripts, House and Senate Armed Services Committee and DoD Appropriations committee and subcommittee coverage, legislative tracking of appropriations and authorization bills, congressional elections coverage, congressional committee member and staff changes, House and Senate member biographies, legislative profiles, and legislative analysis.

2. Objective The contractor must provide congressional information that supports the role of the DLA LA as the office with primary command responsibility for advising, educating, and informing the organization’s leadership and for educating, informing, and responding to congress.

3. Scope The contractor must provide a subscription for online access to the sources, tools, and features listed below for up to 10 users. Users are subject to change based on personnel turnover at various intervals; DLA LA will provide advance notice to the vendor of incoming/outgoing personnel.

General Requirements:

· Real-time access to news, analysis, and commentary on all congressional matters.

· Reports on every public markup on Capitol Hill, every bill taken up at the markup, and information on every vote on each bill. Markup bills must be searchable online by keyword or committee.

· Transcripts of all defense related congressional hearings including those held by all Armed Services committees and Defense Appropriations committees/subcommittees. Provide 10 years of transcript archives.

· A legislative impact service that details the relationship between pending legislation and current law. This service enables a user to determine how legislation affects existing laws rapidly.

· A full email alert capability that can be user-customized to a high degree for content, relevance, and frequency. A single alert that can be established to search nearly all available sources by bill number, key words/phrases, and date.

· Continuous tracking of bills as they progress through congress.

· 24/7 legislation tracking and complete news and transcript coverage.

· All key legislative tracking and reporting services. These services include daily news stories, markup coverage, and transcripts. Search and alert functions integrated into these services to allow one-touch search of multiple data and information sources.

Analytical Requirements:

· Daily news and analysis with access to archives for the past 10 years to present. Includes timely news, expert analysis, and in-depth information about congress, politics, and government. Also includes: legislative and policy news including delivery of a briefing to subscribers’ in-boxes each morning, floor activity updates, and breaking news alerts; detailed event listings including House and Senate committees, federal departments and agencies, and the White House; and politics and lobbying coverage and analysis of the people, politics, and personalities of Capitol Hill dating back 10 years.

· Daily morning synopsis/briefing e-mail.

· Executive briefing/synopsis tailored to defense issues. Provides a quick-glance morning newsletter giving the day’s essential news with links to government documents, reports, schedules, regulations, and news stories involving defense-related interests. Includes expert impartial insight and analysis. Provides updates delivered to the user’s inbox when critical news breaks.

· Weekly roll-up reports and archives for the past 10 years to present.

· Mobile device applications that provide full mobile access to all congressional news coverage and committee schedules – updated continuously throughout the day.

Federal Legislative Tracking Requirements:

· A tool that enables subscribers to follow bills in real-time as they travel through congress delivered to subscribers’ desktop or mobile devices. Delivers line-item updates on specific bills when action occurs on hearings, markups, new amendments, and added cosponsors. Must include the ability to create custom bill reports to summarize the trajectory of the legislation and is searchable and able to provide alerts by keyword, bill number, committee, subcommittee, sponsor, co-sponsor, chamber, legislative stage, appropriations bill, and more. User should be able to track bills for the past 10 years to present.

· Provides a bill status chart for bills introduced to include the capability of generating a chart showing the status of any bill. The bill status chart will indicate the bill number, title, date introduced and where it currently resides in the legislative process. Chart will also include dates of passage in each chamber, committee and conference and when signed into law. In additional, it should provide the user the capability of tailoring the report criteria and format.

· Provide an online tool that fully searches bills dating back 10 years. The tool should be keyword driven and provide the bill language that is relevant to the user’s interests.

· Provides an online tool that can track the differences in language between bills and compares wording found in two versions of the same bill, in two different bills, or in selected sections of any two-bill versions.

· Provide an accurate and detailed synopsis on every major bill in front of congress. Provide pertinent information such as bill background information, floor debate, riders, and prospects for passage.

· Provide committee reports for the past 10 years to present containing information on congressional committees to include the full text of every committee report, searchable by keyword and bill number, and organized by the full text, outline, and sections with keywords.

· Complete committee coverage including markups, votes, and rosters for the past 10 years to present. Delivers reports within 24 hours of the markup and provides listings of past committee hearings and meetings including agendas and witness lists. Provide access to a committee roster database including full committee and subcommittee rosters, complete jurisdiction information, and key committee staff contact information. The database is searchable and able to provide alerts by keyword, bill number, member, committee, and subcommittee.

· Congressional Record (past 10 years to present). A tool that offers the proceedings and debates of the House and Senate and updated daily by 9:00 a.m. when congress is in session. This feature should allow the user to hone in on the details and procedures of major significance. This should be searchable by: bill number, keyword, member speeches, and amendments, and should have information for the past 10 years.

· Provide a searchable database of how every member voted on the House and Senate floors and custom vote reports for the past 10 years. Provide an overview of each vote, the vote count, and final outcome—including members who abstained. The database is searchable and able to provide alerts by keyword, bill number, member, subject, and vote number. Should include the ability for user to choose any set of votes for the past 10 years, and any set of members in the House or Senate, and quickly pull together reports showing the positions of those members on those votes.

· Provide a first-hand look at amendments to bills including draft legislation, and, when possible, before they have been acted on in committee or on the floor. Provide an online capability that searches committee and floor amendments by bill number, date, and committee and sponsor information.

· Provide synopses of legislation with links to related news, analysis, and source material, prepared by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress for the past 10 years to present including the ability to set up email alerts as materials become available.

· Provide the ability to view text of all public laws and search public laws by keywords, bill numbers, sponsors, co-sponsors, text, bill name, bill enactment date, and cite dating back 10 years to present.

Transcripts and Testimony:

· Provide access to committee and subcommittee hearing transcripts that offer verbatim records of the questions and answers between members and agency, private sector, and interest group witnesses. The database should be full-text searchable and able to provide alerts by keyword, bill number, member, committee, and appropriation bills with an archive dating back 10 years.

· Provide transcripts of speeches, press conferences, news events, and agency events. Coverage focuses on the president, congress, and the federal agencies. It should include interviews with key government officials.

· Provide a database that furnishes fast turnaround transcripts for immediate access to crucial events such as speeches, briefings, press conferences, congressional hearings, and interviews.

· Access to committee testimony dating back 10 years to present.

· Provide daily House schedules and House floor action summaries dating back 10 years. Daily updates on what is happening in the House. Access to bills and amendments cited. Note-taking and archiving capabilities.

· Listing of all the amendments expected to be offered each day with a forward-looking projection of what is going to happen the following day.

· Summarize and analyze every bill scheduled for consideration in the coming week.

· Analyze major legislation before floor debate begins.

· Highlight bill changes agreed to on the House floor.

· Information indicating changes made to the bill in conference and are published shortly after the release of a conference report.

· Daily Senate schedules and Senate floor action summaries that provide daily updates on what is happening in the Senate. Access to bills and amendments cited. Also includes note-taking and archiving capabilities.

· Searchable reference database for every member of congress including an archive of members for the last 10 years. This database should contain detailed information about staff, state and districts, biographies, contact information, voting and electoral histories, committee assignments, legislative priorities, speeches, interest group ratings, and positions on key issues/legislation. Member profiles also include government contract data, grant information, and major employers (public and private) organized by district and state.

· Provide a daily updated database of government documents available including draft bill text; press releases; and OMB, CBO, and GAO documents as well as other hard-to-find government reports. Database must be searchable and can provide alerts by keyword, bill number, member, committee, subcommittee, document type, and issuing agency with an archive of content dating back 10 years.

· Provides Congressional Research Service reports dating back 10 years.

· Provides an analysis of pending bills and how they would impact current laws. The product should link the text of a bill to the section of the U.S. Code it would modify. It should allow the user to create custom e-mail alerts that give an early warning when bills are introduced that might affect specific laws.

Other Requirements:

· Ability for user to create customizable search lists by bills, key words, members, votes, laws, and committees.

· Ability for user to create customizable e-mail alerts.

· Ability for user to manage and save documents, save notes, and email documents.

· Complimentary training and telephone support via phone and/or web.

· Ability to provide on demand hearing coverage on short notice and provide hearing transcript to requester within 24 hours.

· Ability to build reports, fact sheets, and briefing slides from the website that automatically update as information changes.

· Ability to organize fact sheets, notes, and comments online within website.

· Ability for all users to view custom notes and data in order to be able to easily collaborate on various issues.

4. Period of Performance The period of performance (POP) for this acquisition is a 12-month base year and two 12-month option years:

· Base Year POP: 1/3/2021 – 1/2/2022

· Option Year One POP: 1/3/2022 – 1/2/2023

· Option Year Two POP: 1/3/2023 – 1/2/2024