Scope of Work-Library Congressional Reporting Service 2025.docx

W802Y952334694 Scope of Work United States Army Corps of Engineers HQ/ HECSA Library 07 August 2025

A Congressional Reporting Service

1.0 General

The US Army Corps of Engineers, HQ/HECSA Library provides library services to approximately 1200 users at USACE Headquarters, as well as, Humphreys Engineer Support Activity (HECSA), the Institute for Water Resources (IWR), the 249th Engineer Battalion (Prime Power), and the Army Audit Agency (AAA). The USACE HQ/HECSA Library requires an in-depth Congressional Reporting Service that tracks every manner of Congressional activity, both current and historical, and that also includes biographical and up-to-date information on members of Congress and their staff. The full scope of requirements is set-forth in section 3.0.

2.0 Scope of Work

HQ/HECSA Library requires an online subscription service that delivers in-depth Congressional Reporting which allows users to search for historical and present day full-text documents, indices and abstracts, news, current events, transcripts, policy, and analysis documents. Access for authorized USACE personnel must be provided over the open Web. This digital content will enable USACE personnel served by the HQ/HECSA Library to accomplish mission-critical projects. The vendor will provide information that allows library users to respond to Congressional inquiries; organize briefs to Congress; prepare for testimony before Congress; and provide Congress with requested reports. Content must track and report authorization and appropriation legislation as it advances through the legislative process and allow side-by-side comparisons. Content provided must also allow research into prior and historical legislative actions in order to provide understanding of current and future legislation.

3.0 Performance Requirements:

3.1 Access:

Contractor shall allow authentication by both IP and PW logins. Access to content must be reliable during normal business hours, with not more than 24 hours of system downtime. Any of the approximately 1200 users coming from a HQ/HECSA Library authorized IP address shall have access to the Congressional Reporting Service’s full text database. Under this type of access, all users must be able to enter a search query into the vendor’s web search form and receive a list of results from across the platform of available documents and be able to view/print/email those documents. All users must also have the ability to request unlimited training sessions with the vendor.

In addition to this enterprise-wide access, there must also be at least 5 individual enhanced user access accounts accessible through ID and Password. These 5 registered enhanced users, designated by library staff, must have not only the capabilities of regular users, but also be able to set up personalized profiles for specific subject areas. These 5 users must be able to save their searches, request unlimited transcripts, and receive email alerts with links that send users directly to relevant content whenever new content matching those profiles is published.

3.2 Content

Specific functionalities and content required of the Congressional Reporting Service include:

· Full text availability of all Congressional publications produced throughout the legislative process, and archives of the same, starting at minimum with the 98th Congress in1983. Congressional publications include Bills, Resolutions, Reports, Prints, Documents, Hearings, Testimony, Amendments, Markups, Vetoes, Drafts, Signing Statements, Congressional Record and other products.

· Full text access to transcripts of PUBLIC LAWS dating back to 1800.

· Access to a comprehensive collection of government/agency source documents like CRS, GAO, OMB, CBO, etc.

· Access to collections of Congressional activity such as Resolutions, Bills, Hearings, Amendments, Reports, Prints, Agency Specific Documents, Congressional Record, Committees chambers’ information and reports, all with hyperlinks to full text.

· Full text access to any Testimony before Congress, as presented, with indexed and updated video coverage of the House and Senate Floor available the same day, with keyword searching.

· Access to drafts of full bill texts, with comparison function for different drafts and versions.

· Access to complete voting records for all members of Congress, including current and past Congresses.

· Access to up-to-date congressional staff lists with contact information and Congressional district maps.

· Access to accurate and in-depth biographical and record information for all members of Congress past and present.

· Access to daily reporting products produced by experienced Hill reporters and former staffers.

· Ability to run a comparison between multiple Congressional actions.

· Access and links to Congressional Publishing at GPO.

· Linking function to view changes to the US Code and CFR ( i.e. changes to law & regulations) from any document.

· Appropriations tracking.

· Search functions available across all documents and resources.

· Linking directly to and from www.congress.gov accounts with password access.

· Continual keyword alerts for enhanced account users with actual links to published documents with the keywords and frequency of alerts determined by individual user.

· Transcripts of all major hearings with ability of enhanced users to request unlimited and free transcripts for any event on “the Hill”.

· Service record of proven reliability and accuracy of information.

4.0 Period of Performance

The initial period of service will be for 12 months beginning September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026.