Notice of Intent to Award Soel Source

Added: Feb 14, 2017 8:14 am   The AF Libraries has access to the following Federal News Service titles:

              Defense. News events related to U.S. defense policy, with an emphasis on Senate Armed Services & House Armed Services committee hearings, Defense & Military Construction subcommittee hearings, media briefings by military leadership.

Foreign Affairs. News events related to U.S. foreign policy, with an emphasis on Senate Foreign Relations & House Foreign Affairs committee hearings, foreign leaders visits, State Department briefings, other public policy events in Washington.

Washington Daybook. A current calendar of Washington political events.

Product characteristics an equal item must meet to be considered:

•·         Provides verbatim transcripts of government briefings, speeches, press conferences, and other newsmaker events.

•·         Offers congressional hearing transcript database and transcript database with speeches and press conferences of policymakers and newsmakers.

•·         Offers special order transcribing services to transcribe audio or video tape provided by the client, or tape and transcribe events by special order; and a transcript wire service to see transcripts in sections of two-three pages at a time as they are transmitted.

•·         Provides Coalition Provisional Authority briefings in Iraq; and FNS NewsClips Online, an electronic media monitoring service to track what is written today about various interests or issues of the client in the online editions of newspapers, magazines, newsletters, television and radio stations, cable news outlets, and Internet only and trade publications.

•·         Offers TV news/public affairs monitoring, video taping, and transcribing services; translation services in Ukrainian, Georgian, Polish, Korean, Slovak, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, French, German, and Spanish languages.

•·         Offers Russian Government Transcripts in English of press conferences, briefings, statements, and interviews by Russian political leaders and spokespersons.

•·         Offers a schedule of events occurring in Washington.

•·         Tapes, translates, and transcribes the Middle East news and government events; broadcasts and print media interviews of the Middle Eastern political leaders and spokespersons.

•·         Highlights of the U.S. broadcast news coverage of the Middle East; and the Middle East briefings by the White House, State, and Defense departments.