Food Security Outlook and Research Data Support subscription

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economics Research Service, intends to negotiate and award on a Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition (JOFOC) basis. A purchase order will be one-year firm-fixed price (plus two option years) awarded to Haver Analytics, Inc. of New York, NY for an Analysis of Forces Affecting U.S. Agriculture and International Food Security Outlook and Research Data Support subscription. Anticipated Date of Award: 6/25/2019.
The following data sets shall be provided:

1. U.S. Economic Statistics. Haver Analytics' primary database of U.S. economic and financial data. Data shall cover national accounts, prices, housing, construction, industrial production, interest rates, money supply, public finance, wholesale and retail trade, manufacturers' shipments, inventories and orders, employment, productivity, population, international trade and business cycle indicators.
2. U.S. International Transactions. Detailed international trade in goods and services and international transactions by country, foreign direct investment in the United States and U.S. direct investment abroad by country and industry.
3. Emerging Markets Package. International macroeconomic data, as well as data on macroeconomic and trade developments in major emerging markets, including in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Western Asia, and Asia/Pacific Rim.
4. International Financial Statistics. Monthly, quarterly, and annual gross domestic product and national accounts detail, interest rates, price and production indexes, money and banking, commodity prices, exchange rates, and balance of payments data for nearly 250 countries and regional aggregates published in the International Monetary Fund's International Financial Statistics.
5. World Bank Commodity Prices. Timely monthly and annual prices for 76 key commodities and price indexes for 14 broad commodity categories for emerging countries from the World Bank Development Prospects Group. Also known as the Pinksheets, monthly data begins in 1983 and annual data begins in 1960.
6. Blue Chip Economic Indicators. Current and historical consensus forecasts for key world economic indicators.

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