SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Twitter
- Notice Date
- 5/29/2020 8:25:53 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST GAITHERSBURG MD 20899 USA
- ZIP Code
- 20899
- Solicitation Number
- AMD-NOI-20-Twitter-API
- Response Due
- 6/10/2020 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 06/10/2020
- Point of Contact
- Lynda M Horton, Phone: 3019753725
- E-Mail Address
-
Lynda.Horton@nist.gov
(Lynda.Horton@nist.gov)
- Description
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) (1), with Twitter, Inc. located at 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 for Enterprise Application Programming Interface (API) Twitter Data, for a base period of 6 months followed by a 6-month option period. As part of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program, we began the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Incident Streams project to support research into social media analytics during emergencies and natural disasters. Increasingly, people expect emergency responders to monitor social media, but in practice, public safety organizations do not have the technology or expertise to do so. The TREC Incident Streams project identifies tweets sent during emergencies and annotates them for priority and according to an emergency response ontology. We then invite research teams from anywhere in the world to develop software systems to automatically filter and classify the tweets. We develop the infrastructure to measure the effectiveness of those systems, and a forum for sharing research results, which speeds the improvement of the technology. When the technology matures, such systems could drive analytic dashboards or decision-making processes in public safety organizations. Conventional public access to Twitter tweets are limited to small volumes within short periods of time.� NIST requires access and use on an Enterprise-Level API to search Twitter during emergencies, such as safety emergencies like floods, wildfires, earthquakes, other natural disasters) so that we can identify as many tweets coming from the emergency as possible. The vast majority of tweets associated with an emergency with a hashtag are wishes of support and discussion about the event. However, on a much smaller scale, people in the emergency itself use Twitter to request aid, share resources, offer services, and provide first-hand reports of the situation. NISTs current practice uses public APIs with multiple queries, but we will be much more effective at collecting all the �critical� tweets during an emergency if we used enterprise APIs, which have much higher limits. Emergency events identified for collection will have the following properties: -Have significant duration such that NIST can reasonably imagine social media being an effective communication tool during the emergency -Involve public safety response including police, fire, and/or emergency health -Occur in places where English is a primary or significant language -Not represent civil actions or members of the public exercising their civil rights -Not be of national security interest beyond conventional emergency management and public safety -Not arise primarily because of political controversy The following list of examples of events the TREC Incident Streams track will not collect is meant to be illustrative and not exhaustive: -Demonstrations -Protests -Labor strikes -Riots -Large public events without an emergency safety component (like the Super Bowl or a major outdoor concert) Twitter offers commercial Enterprise Level access to APIs that allow large scale search and filtering over all Twitter data.� NIST will obtain samples of tweets that people send during emergency events such as wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes. That data will be used to measure the effectiveness of technology designed to filter social media streams during those emergency events and route actionable information to public safety personnel. The public APIs are very limited in scope and only allow a small amount of data to be examined.� As a result, the datasets we built were small and not completely reflective of the real-world task of monitoring social media from a public safety command-and-control center.� Having access to Twitter's Enterprise APIs would give us the opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of data we can provide. Only Twitter, Inc. possesses the sole capability to provide access to their API data. Twitter is the only source for access to this Enterprise Level API data.� Previously, Twitter would utilize Gnip to provide data, however, in 2014 Twitter purchased Gnip and became the sole source for obtaining access to Application Programming Interfaces of all Twitter data. Twitter is unusual among social media companies for providing this kind of API Data for researchers and companies.� Neither Facebook, Instagram, nor WhatsApp provide a comparable API Data. The anticipated NAICS code for this requirement is 519130 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals, with a small business size standard of 1,000 employees. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No solicitation package will be issued. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. However, responses received by June 15, 2020 will be considered by the Government.� All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted via email to Lynda.Horton@nist.gov so that they are received no later than June 10, 2020 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. Each response should include the following Business Information: a. Contractor Name, Address, b. Point of Contact Name, Phone Number, and Email address c. Contractor DUNS d. Contractor Business Classification (i.e., small business, 8(a), woman owned, hubZone, veteran owned, etc.) as validated in System for Award Management (SAM). All offerors must register in the SAM located at http://www.sam.gov/portal/SAM/#1 e. Capability Statement
- Web Link
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SAM.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
- Zip Code: 20899
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20899
- Record
- SN05674376-F 20200531/200529230146 (samdaily.us)
- Source
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