NPD-SON.pdf

Statement of Need For the Purchase of Outdoor Recreation State Ways Allocation Input and

Outdoor Recreation National POS Sales Data.

From the NPD Group, Inc.

Section 1- Introduction/Background

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), as the nation’s accountant and one of the world’s leading statistical agencies, produce measures of the U.S. economy, conducts research and analysis, develops, and implements estimation methodologies, and disseminates statistics to the public. To promote a better understating of the local area economies and respond to the growing needs of BEA’s data users, statistics, methodologies, and underlying source data are constantly evaluated and improved.

BEA has been tasked with developing and refining measures of economic activity explicitly related to outdoor recreation in every U.S. state. These measures require BEA to identify new data sources containing granular detail on economic activity in various industrial sectors.

The NPD Group, Inc. maintains an array of sources containing retail sales data related to outdoor recreation activity. As such, the vendor is uniquely qualified to utilize these various sources to provide BEA with an estimate of the percentage of each state’s contribution to national dollar expenditure totals. These records will assist in the computation, evaluation, and quality control of sub-national economic statistics. This data contributes to the fulfillment of BEA’s need to acquire supplemental data to help ensure the statistics produced by BEA are accurate, relevant, and timely.

Section 2 - Statement of Objectives

This procurement aims to obtain two sets of multi-year data detailing the percentage of each state’s contribution to national dollar expenditures on outdoor recreation activities. One data set will consist of national point-of-sale data, and the other set will indicate the contribution of each state’s sales to the national expenditure totals, classified by outdoor recreation activity. These data must be available from 2017 forward consistently. In addition, the data must be aligned to the categories listed on BEA’s current published table of ORSA gross output by activity. These data will supplement the limited source data currently used in the computation of regional statistics. BEA plans to apply this data to estimate the sub-national income and value-added measures published in BEA’s regional accounts.

Section 3 - Period of Performance

Outdoor Recreation State Ways Allocation Input

The total period of performance under this contract is 12- months.

Base Period: FY2022

Outdoor Recreation National POS Sales Data

The total period of performance under this contract is 12- months

Base Period: FY2022

Delivery Schedule:

In the base period, data provided under this agreement will be delivered on or before September 30, 2022.

Section 4 - Contracting Officer Representative (COR)/Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COR)

A. CONTRACTING OFFICER’S REPRESENTATIVE (COR)

***** is now designated as the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). The COR may be changed at any time by the Government without prior notice to the contractor by a unilateral modification to the contract.

The COR is located at:

Bureau of Economic Analysis 4600 Silver Hill road Suitland, MD 20746 Email: procurement@bea.gov Phone #: (301) 278-9013

Alt COR is *****

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