SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE OAM24065S - Committee Streaming Service ( Amendment 2) Amendment 0002 date: August 27, 2024 Amendment 0001 date: July 22, 2024 Original date: June 20, 2024 This is NOT a solicitation for a proposal, proposal abstract or quote. The purpose of this notice is to acquire information regarding the potential to host and livestream official Congressional hearing videos, and to provide public access to archived hearing videos. The responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition strategy . Currently, U.S. House of Representatives (House) Members, Committees, Leadership Offices and staff streams each committee hearing and markup to committee-controlled YouTube channels. For the public to view these hearings, they must locate and navigate to the respective YouTube channel, where they have access to both live and on-demand video. There are currently 19 standing committees, their are numerous subcommittees, and another five select committees. The average amount of committee coverage is approximately 3,000 hours each year. The House seeks to have a fully implemented live video streaming and on-demand solution; therefore, we are looking for product information from any vendor/company that would be a viable service option and with the following minimum technical requirements: Ability to embed videos on websites Sharable links to individual videos Centralized portal for all videos Video streaming with minimum resolutions of 720P. Low level latency Able to live stream up to 32 concurrent hearings. Ability to send to additional streaming platforms. Streams and archived hearings accessible to the public Closed captioning supported Organization of past events by committee Use of APIs to integrate with automatic scheduling of hearings. Ability to add watermarks Usage reporting/data analytics (views, users) Due to the nature of this Sources Sought, questions will be due (NLT) August 16, 2024, at 2 PM EST . Answers will be posted in the form of an amendment to this RFI. For questions submitted after the deadline, the USHR will try its best to answer but answers may not be guaranteed. The questions submitted have been added to the attachments. If interested, please submit an electronic capability statement demonstrating your capacity to complete the requirement outlined above to
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[email protected] no later than (NLT) August 30, 2024 2:00 PM EST . The Capability Statement shall meet the following criteria: On page one (1) of the Capability Statement, begin by providing your company information as follows: Company name, address, phone number, CAGE code, DUNS number, GSA Contract Number (if applicable) and point of contact (name, phone and e-mail). Capability Statement must be in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Adobe PDF format, single spaced, 11-point font (excluding charts and graphics) and the entire document shall not to exceed 5 pages in length to include all attachments, charts, etc. Capability Statement must include but is not limited to (a) companies core capabilities as it relates to the above requirements; (b) corporate experience and management capability; and examples of prior completed Government contracts (if any), references, and other related information; and (c) Rough Order of Magnitude in terms of pricing. **Any Pricing that is provided is not legally binding, will be treated as procurement sensitive information and will be only used for budgeting and potential solicitation purposes.** Disclaimer and Important Notes This Sources Sought does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization’s qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Please note that the United States House of Representatives is not subject to Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR) or any of its supplements. Confidentiality No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).