Attachment_A1_-_TAQ_Technical_Req_Checklist.xlsx

XLSX spreadsheet 18 KB Posted Feb 26, 2014

Attached to: Trade and Quote Data for the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)
Solicitation number: TFSAOFR14CI0007
Issued by: Department of the Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service

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Column A	Column B	Column C	Column D	Column E	Column F
		ATTACHMENT A1 - TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST
			OFFEROR	OFFEROR	OFFEROR
Row Number		INSTRUCTIONS: NOTE: IF ANY MANDATORY REQUIREMENT IS NOT MET, THE OFFER WILL BE CONSIDERED TECHNICALLY UNACCEPTABLE AND THE OFFEROR'S PROPOSAL WILL NOT BE EVALUATED FURTHER. OPTIONAL REQUIREMENTS are denoted by "OPTIONAL" in column B; however, the Offeror should address these statements, as applicable, in its Technical Proposal. Offerors shall place a Y (Yes) or N (No) in column D. Only proposals with a "Y" in column D next to a mandatory requirement will be evaluated. Blanks in column D will be counted as "No." In column E, include the corresponding name of the Offeror's product(s) which meets the Government's mandatory and optional requirements. As applicable, in column F, please provide a brief description of how and/or by how much the Offeror's product exceeds the requirements listed in column C. In addition, as a separate attachment, the Offeror has twenty (20) pages of its Technical Proposal to provide any additional comments/notes. Offerors shall elaborate on: 1) any data coverage the Offeror currently provides to existing customers that meets the Go/No Go requirements and support its "Yes" responses in Attachments A1 [column D] and A2, and where the Offeror states it column F that it exceeds the Go/No Go requirements; 2) any additional data fields not covered in Attachment A2; 3) any additional data offered not covered in the requirements; and 4) any insight as to why the elements the Offeror exceeds or are in addition to the requirements might be of benefit to the Government. The comments/notes shall be mapped to the row number of the requirement below that is being addressed. Pages submitted above the twenty (20) page limit will not be evaluated. Attachments A1 and A2 do not count towards the twenty (20) page limit but must be completed and returned as part of the Offeror's Technical Proposal in order for the Offeror to be considered for an award.	Does the data provided by the Offeror meet the requirement? (Y/N)	Insert Product Name next to the corresponding requirement [add as many columns as applicable to cover all the products you provide that meet the requirements]	For requirements where the Offeror 's product exceeds the Government's requirement, the Offeror must state how and by how much, and include its product name(s). For example: if the Government's requirement is for the vendor to provide historical trade and quote information back to 1993," an offeror may state "33,000 equities with information back to 1990. Product ABC."
		Requirements
		Data Coverage (Market and Historical)
1		The Trade and Quote files must provide data comprising trades, quotes, and reference data and symbology for CTA/UTP real-time market data, and top of the book data for US major exchanges.
	OPTIONAL - a	Does the Offeror provide Options Market data? If so, please describe in Technical Proposal.
		The following are the US major exchanges where coverage is required:
2		· NYSE MKT LLC (formerly NYSE AMEX and the American Stock Exchange)
3		· BATS Exchange, Inc.
4		· BATS Y-Exchange, Inc.
5		· NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc. (formerly the Boston Stock Exchange)
6		· Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
7		· EDGA Exchange, Inc.
8		· EDGX Exchange, Inc.
9		· The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
10		· National Stock Exchange, Inc.
11		· New York Stock Exchange LLC
12		· NYSE Arca, Inc.
13		· NASDAQ OMX PHLX, Inc. (formerly Philadelphia Stock Exchange)
		The Data Sets shall contain trade and quote data covering the following spaces:
14		Intraday data containing price and volume of trades down to the level of individual trades.
15		Where data is available back to January 1, 2004 through current data received during the performance period, Treasury requires for it to be time stamped to the millisecond.
16		Where data is available prior to January 1, 2004, Treasury requires, at a minimum, for it to be time stamped to the second.
17		Coverage for the United States equities from major exchanges.
18		Full historical top of the book, best bid and offer, and last trade data.
19		Historical data on a T+1 basis.
20		End of day data upload containing all the Trade and Quote data from the major exchanges from that day’s activities. The day’s activities covers 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM local time for the exchange location.
21		The data shall contain all equity symbols and shall contain mapped data linking together the data for all symbols used by a corporate entity throughout its history.
22		The data shall be presented in a format that covers the entire list of data field descriptions identified in Attachment B. (NOTE: Attachment B must also be completed and returned with Offeror's Technical Proposal.)
		UPDATES
23		Following a day’s activities, new data shall be available to Treasury, at a minimum, within a 24 hour period.
24		As new data becomes available outside of the day’s activities, such data shall be made available to Treasury at the time it is also available to the Contractor’s commercial customers.
25		Changes to the data elements and addition of new data shall be identified in each data update as an email alert to the licensed users.
		HISTORY
		The history of the data shall commence as stated below:
26		o The data within the following exchanges shall commence, at a minimum, back to the year 1993:
27		NYSE MKT LLC (formerly NYSE AMEX and the American Stock Exchange)
28		The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
29		New York Stock Exchange LLC
30		o The data within the following exchanges shall commence back to its year of inception: (NOTE: Since the inception date for the exchanges below varies, please note the year in which the Offeror's data commences for each exchange below in column F next to the corresponding row.)
31		BATS Exchange, Inc.
32		BATS Y-Exchange, Inc.
33		NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc. (formerly the Boston Stock Exchange)
34		Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.
35		EDGA Exchange, Inc.
36		EDGX Exchange, Inc.
37		National Stock Exchange, Inc.
38		NYSE Arca, Inc.
39		NASDAQ OMX PHLX, Inc. (formerly Philadelphia Stock Exchange)
40		The data shall extend to current coverage throughout the performance period in accordance with the update requirements stated above.
		DOCUMENTATION
41		Information detailing the methodology and any data dictionaries for the TAQ feeds and historical data shall be provided by the vendor concurrent with award.
42		The contractor shall provide at least the same level of documentation, training, and technical support as provided its commercial customers.
		DATA DELIVERY
43		The contractor shall provide the data in its original form or according to file formats commonly used in industry and accessible by the Department of the Treasury such as compressed ASCII, comma delimited, text files, excel, and XML.
44		The TAQ data delivered via FTP shall be updated at least within a 24 hour period covering the data fields included in Attachment B and remain current throughout the performance period of the contract.
	OPTIONAL - b	Does the Offeror provide the data via the WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) Platform operated by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania?
		Secure File Transfer Protocol (Secure FTP)
46		The government requires the data in a format that will allow its users to persist the data. The data shall be delivered via a secure FTP download or comparable protocol.

Offeror shall elaborate on the following items in their (up to) 20 page technical proposal. (these items will be evaluated based on their risk level to the Government)

Has the Offeror provided commercial data set(s) covering the requirements stated in this solicitation to other customers? The response to this statement should be supported by information the Offeror provides in its technical proposal.

If answered no to the question above, does the Offeror currently have existing relationships with any other parties in order to resale the data the other party collects directly from any of the US major exchanges where coverage is required? If so, please provide name(s) of the other party(ies) and describe the Offeror's relationship in Technical Proposal, including its business practices (to include frequency of its data extracts) and its methodology for collecting the data.

Does the Offeror currently have existing direct relationships with all of the US major exchanges where coverage is required? If so, the Offeror shall describe in its Technical Proposal information regarding its relationships and its business practices, including the frequency of its data extracts, and its methodology for collecting the data.

**Note that the Government reserves the right to reject any and all Offers/Proposals if the mode of data access, the security, subscription or license agreement terms, or the utility of file formats is not acceptable to the Government.**

Technical Acceptability Checklist

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