Servers & prepackaged enterprise software data

Added: Aug 31, 2016 5:18 pm Under the Authority of Federal Acquisitions Regulation, Part 6, Subparts 6.301 and 6.302, the U.S. Census Bureau, on behalf of the Bureau for Economic Analysis (BEA), intends to contract with IDC Research, Inc. on a sole source basis to obtain administrative data on prices and revenues for highly granular product classes for two component types of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) goods purchased by businesses (for Servers and Prepackaged Enterprise Software), for the purpose of improving the estimation of investment in the national accounts. The data must contain information on the attributes of the individual models such as the type of microprocessor and RAM memory for servers and information on the specific type of application for prepackaged software. The data is utilized to construct deflators for the value of Nonresidential Fixed Investments for IT goods under more general conditions than those underlying the deflators, currently used by BEA. BEA requires price indexes that have revenue data that are readily merged with the pricing data.

The data must include the following:

Pricing Service Software
Time Period the Data Covers: from 2007 onwards, Weekly Pricing Data on the Goods, Granularity (Part Numbers, SKU Levels with descriptions), 78 Different Categories, Software Market Segments (Business Productivity, Communications, Database, Design and Multimedia, Operating Systems, and Programming and Development. Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker (includes, Historical only Worldwide data cut), Time Period Data covers, back to 5 years of historical data, Software Tracker covers vendor revenue, Tracker covers over 80 functional markets, Includes, Server Technology Coverage, tracker provides total market size and vendor share technology. Tracker is in unit shipments, factory revenue, and customer revenue. Server Pricing Evaluation Service.

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE:
Date of Award through one year.

Telephone request will not be honored. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence, that competition would be advantageous to the Government. In doing so, interested sources must submit pricing and other information that demonstrates their ability to meet BEA's needs. This notice is not to be considered a request for quotations or proposals. No contract will be awarded on the basis of offers received in response to this notice, but offers will be used to determine if a comparable source is available and more advantageous to the Government. If no affirmative written response is received within 14 days from the publication of this synopsis, a contract may be issued to IDC Research, Inc., without further notice.