SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- R-Professional, Admiistrative and Management Support Services
- Notice Date
- 6/8/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541910
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- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Commissary Agency, Contracting Business Unit Support Services/Supply and Revenue Branch, 1300 E Avenue, Building P-11200, Fort Lee, VA, 23801-1800
- ZIP Code
- 23801-1800
- Solicitation Number
- HDEC05-06-SS001
- Response Due
- 6/26/2006
- Description
- SOURCES SOUGHT: SUBSCRIPTION TO A SCANNER DATA BASE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM. This announcement is a sources sought only. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this announcement or to otherwise pay for the information received. The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) is a Department of Defense (DoD) Agency that is responsible for the operation of approximately 269 military commissaries throughout the world. A commissary is the equivalent of a commercial grocery store. DeCA is seeking sources that can provide a subscription to an Information Retrieval System containing Sales/Movement Data for scanned products sold by DeCA Commissaries and commercial supermarkets. The database must include sales/movement data for all scanned products sold by DeCA commissaries both within and outside the Continental United States (CONUS - defined as the 48 contiguous States); comparable, statistically significant sales data from a majority of supermarket chains throughout the United States; and sales movement data from supermarkets within the same geographical (metro) areas as commissaries. In this context, supermarkets are defined as traditional grocery stores with annual volume over $2 million and Supercenter/mass merchant formats operated by Mass Merchandisers. Access to any available causal data and data the contractor provides to other retailers is also required. Available data should include the current month and the previous 24 months. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE that DeCA front-end scanner data is not readily available to the general public. As mandated by statue (10 U.S.C. 2487b), DeCA makes this data available to interested firms for an annual subscription fee (currently $821,281 per year). Execution of the requisite subscription agreement application and advance payment of $821,281 per year of data requested will entitle the subscriber to all available DeCA front-end scanner data for the years purchased. The purchase of DeCA front-end scanner data IS NOT A GUARANTEE OF AN AWARD. Respondents to this notice MUST be able to purchase not only DeCA front-end data but also the comparable commercial grocery store data for the same 24-month period. Commercial grocery store chains offer their front-end data to interested firms on a fee basis. DeCA is not interested in a contractor database that does not include front-end scanner data from both DeCA and comparable commercial sources, to include historical data. Prior to DeCA awarding a contract for an Information Retrieval System, the successful offeror must execute an annual subscription agreement with DeCA. The Preferred Data retrieval method will be accomplished by access to the contractor's database system through the World Wide Web. The proposed hardware/software solution must include a user-friendly, menu-based drag and click type application that will allow for significant data manipulation and report building capabilities, to include ad-hoc reporting, by DeCA personnel. Access to the web-based application must be compatible with the current DeCA network, shall not conflict with existing programs or capabilities, and shall not impede current operations. If web-based application does not allow for the ability to produce ad-hoc reports, contractor shall submit alternative method for access to database that includes the same characteristics as outlined above. As a minimum, either method of access must enable the operator to generate reports, to include ad-hoc reports, based on any number of parameters, to include, but not limited to: (1) Geographic Areas (DeCA regions, areas within regions, stores, and commercially defined markets); (2) Products (departments, categories, sub-categories and/or segments, brands, manufacturers, and a full range of product attributes such as UPC, selling unit size, selling unit type (can, bottle, etc.), selling unit flavor, and other well-defined product characteristics; (3) Measures and Derivative Calculations (dollar sales, unit sales, volume sales, Average Cumulative Volume (ACV) percent, average pricing (promotional, non-promotional), lift percentages, sales per point of distribution, etc); and (4) Time Periods (weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541910 and the Business Size Standard is $6.5 Million. A solicitation will be issued for this requirement at a later date. Organizations who believe they meet the requirements as identified above may submit their company information, no later than June 26, 2006, to: Defense Commissary Agency, AMDR (Will Madera), 1300 E Avenues, Fort Lee, VA 23801-1800. Information must include the following: 1. Requester's name 2. Company name and address 3. Business size (large or small business) 4. Telephone/facsimile numbers 5. Dun and Bradstreet (DUNs) Number 6. Indicate whether your firm can provide this service and a detailed description of how your firm would expect to acquire the necessary scanner data to meet the requirement. 7. Past Performance information listing sources that utilize organization's current database system for scanner data. Facsimile requests to (804) 734-8669 or electronic mail to wilfredo.madera@deca.mil will be accepted.
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