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U.S. Census Bureau: AGGREGATED RETAIL POINT-OF-SALE/SCANNER

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Notice Type: Sources Sought Notice

Action ID Number: ECON-24-0011

1. Synopsis:

THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. REQUESTS FOR A

SOLICITATION WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. This Sources Sought Notice (SSN) is in support of Market Research being conducted by the United States Census Bureau (USCB) to identify potential small business sources for this effort. This is not a Request for Proposal (or solicitation) or an indication that a contractual commitment will exist for this requirement. The Government does not intend to award a contract solely on the basis of this market research. No funds are available to fund the information solicited.

The USCB is requesting information, pursuant to FAR Part 10 - Market Research, to identify potential sources for AGGREGATED RETAIL POINT-OF-SALE/SCANNER TRANSACTION

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The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 541910 – Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling. The Government is interested in identifying all small businesses including Small Disadvantaged Businesses 8(a)s, Service-Disabled Veteran- Owned Small Businesses, Hubzone Businesses, and Women-Owned Small Businesses capable of performing these services. The government requests that interested parties respond to this notice in accordance with Paragraph 3 of this SSN.

2. Scope:

Please refer to Attachment 1 - PWS.

3. Capable Sources shall submit the following information:

Company Information (does not apply to the overall page count):

- Company Name and Address

- Cage Code

- Unique Entity Identifier (UEI)

- Company business size by NAICS code 541910 – Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling

- Federal Supply Schedule or GWAC Number

- Point of Contact for questions and/or clarification

- Telephone Number and email address

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- Web Page URL

Response to Market Research Questions:

Describe corporate capabilities to perform the following work. Description of capabilities may include discussion experiences of corporate or potential key personnel.

1. Describe you company’s ability to provide individual retail Point-of-Sale data sets at the state and national levels? This should include the continental U.S., District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.

2. Do your company datasets include total brick-and-mortar and e-commerce sales and units sold by store location and by product category (i.e., from the dataset, the ability to tabulate total sales of Product X at Store Location Y for Retailer Z should exist) on a weekly and/or monthly basis, and provide that data by the 11th day of the month following the close of the previous month of data?

3. Does your company have the capability to provide historical data for the individual retail data feeds and the aggregated datasets back to 2018? And can you explain how your company’s data collection, methodology, as well as editing and imputation of the data that you will provide to the US Census Bureau? How does your company mask or aggregate the data?

4. Can you explain in detail the coverage of the retail sector provided by your company?

5. Can you provide detail description of your company’s agreements with retailers? Is the data at a detailed company level or aggregated level? Can you explain the company level and/or aggregated level? How can your company share your data with the US Census Bureau?

The above information shall be addressed within no more than 5 pages, 8.5” x 11” and 12-pitch font size and sent to the USCB Contracting Office Contacts identified below on July 31, 2024, NLT 04:00PM, EST:

Primary Point of Contact:

Long Nguyen Contracting Officer Long.Nguyen@census.gov

Harjot Kaur Contracts Specialist Harjot.Kaur@census.gov

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