Description
The contractor shall provide on-line legislative Congressional reporting, research, tracking, and analysis services for a single user. System access shall be available 24 hours a days, seven days a week, including weekends and holidays. The contractor shall provide onsite training, as needed, and advanced training. The contractor will also provide training via telephone, video teleconferencing, or other electronic media during business hours. System access must be available through a web browser executable in a Windows NT PC-based operating environment. Telephone technical support must be available Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. eastern standard time (EST). Legislative services must include the ability to download the full text of information available in PDF as well as text file format. Services shall include, at a minimum, the following:(1) Full text of all Committee and Conference Reports (1989-present) with links to the PDF version and searchable charts, including “camera-ready” charts for all budget and appropriation bills. Full text version must be searchable by Congress number, word or phrase, bill numbers, personal word and bill list, Committees, Chamber, publication date, report numbers and date items added; (2) Full text of all versions of bills (1987 – present) with ability to search by Congress number, word or phrase, bill numbers, personal word and bill list, member names, committees, chamber, bill version date, date bill introduced, stage in legislative process, and date items added. Also provide the ability to identify sections containing specific key words or phrases for quick identification and printing of germane language requested; (3) Full text of all floor amendments for prior years plus the ability to highlight key words in the full text of amendments and show excerpts of amendment text containing keywords in e-mail alerts (4) Ability to quickly display bills that are being tracked in either a short view format (bill number, sponsor, last major action and next scheduled action) or a longer view format which includes complete history (sponsor, official title, introduction date, cosponsors, last major action, next scheduled action, latest news/analysis, scheduled floor action, link to bills, reports and amendments plus complete legislative chronology); (5) Ability to review bills by scanning from a predetermined watch/alert list which provides updates on news articles, floor votes, new text versions and amendments and other key pieces of information related to the bill in the past 72 hours; (6) full text and detailed analysis of all major bills before Congress, including highlights, prospects for passage, major bill actions, news analysis and schedule information and the option to create a bill chronology or bill text comparison; (7) Reports to include all aspects of all completed and upcoming House floor activity on legislation, which includes a detailed summary and analysis of every bill scheduled for floor consideration during the coming week; (8) Descriptive fact sheets listing key legislation and summary of bill prior to floor debate, including changes to legislation made on floor and identifying all changes made in conference prior to the release of the Conference Report; (9) Full Text of Executive Orders; (10) Complete legislative histories of every bill before Congress – from introduction (draft stage for appropriation bills) through passage or veto. Bill chronologies will include sponsor, cosponsors, official title, brief title, committee referrals, related bills, descriptions of floor speeches with link directly to the congressional record, floor vote tallies, summaries of committee amendments and links to all bill versions, committee reports and the latest news and analysis. Also includes listings of which legislation has language incorporated into other bills. Bill chronologies will be searchable by Congress number, Word or phrase, Words in Bill Title, Bill numbers, Sponsor, Cosponsor, Committees, Chamber, Date bill introduced, Action/event date, Stage in Legislative Process, Public Law Number and Date items added; (11) Same-day access to floor votes with descriptions of each vote; (12) Complete transcripts of all DoD-related congressional hearings, to include individual testimony/statements – all of which to be posted no more than three days succeeding the event. Additionally, the Government may request that the Contractor provide transcripts of other identified hearings of interest; (13) Customized reports on key current and past legislative actions; (14) Full text of the Congressional Record and Federal Register archived at least back to 1987 and 1990, respectively. Ability to global search all Congressional Records from 1995 – present at one time using key words or phrases, bill numbers, personal key word and bill list, member names, chamber, congressional record page number, amendment number, congressional record categories (i.e., Senate amendments introduced), publication date and items added; (15) Ability to conduct text searches by key word, subject, bill number; and ability to link to other data sources and related news documents for analysis; (16) Ability to track and cross-reference bills that have been incorporated into other pieces of legislation; (17) Ability to compare differences in language between bill text documents either from two related bills, or any two bills from previous Congressional sessions with the current Congress, as well as compare selected sections of two bills; (18) Daily floor coverage of full proceedings for the House and Senate; (19) Daily transcripts of full press briefings and media coverage; (20) Tailored Email alerts provided to all users on legislative actions and newly posted news stories, transcripts and schedules; (21) Member of Congress profiles to include analysis of each member, voting records, interest group ratings and detailed information on members’ Congressional districts; and (22) Ability to create and receive e-mail alerts based on any or all site content, including bills, committee reports, hearing schedules and transcripts, news stories, member speeches, floor amendments, committee markups and votes.