MODIFICATION
D -- INTERNET MONITORING SERVICE
- Notice Date
- 8/26/2004
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 541618
— Other Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps Systems Command, 2200 Lester Street, Quantico, VA, 22134-5010
- ZIP Code
- 22134-5010
- Solicitation Number
- M67854-04-R-3101
- Response Due
- 9/2/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/17/2004
- Point of Contact
- Lynn Frazier, Contracting Officer, Phone (703) 432-3359, Fax (703) 432-3262,
- E-Mail Address
-
frazierly@mcsc.usmc.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- MODIFIED--26 AUG 04--The following Questions and Answers are hereby incorporated into the combined synopsis/solicitation referenced above: 1. Is the requirement for direct access to the Ebay database needed to obtain data that is not normally available by conventional means? For instance, names of bidders (IP addresses) offering to buy blackmarket goods? Yes. 1A. What types of data are expected from the Ebay interface other than the search criteria? IP addresses, user account names and other identifying information of the trader. 2. Is the database a direct copy of all Ebay and other search engines data, (unfiltered data)? No. The database should provide information that aids the Marine Corps in mitigating the illegal proliferation of organizational equipment on the black market. 3. Would the database only be populated by extracting hits of relevant search criteria from Ebay and other search engines? No, it is not limited to just this data. See answer 2 above. 4. Could further details be provided on the "Automatic batch shutdown notification to eBay? VeRO program"? Those details are proprietary to Ebay. 5. Regarding the statement "On demand history of customer activity log", does this refer to Ebay customers or USMC users of the search database provided by this project. This refers to USMC users of the database. 6. Is the overall intent of this project to reveal only blackmarketing individuals who are selling goods, or to capture information on both sellers and buyers of blackmarket goods. The desire is to capture as much information as possible. 7. Will the USMC help with negotiations to gaining access to eBay's servers? No. 8. Do our personnel involved with this project need security clearance? No. 9. How soon after contract award must the product be ready by? 45 Days. 10. Has the pilot project mentioned in the background section of the SOW been performed using USMC internal resources or was it done by an outside company? It was done by an outside company. 10A. If latter is true, would this company be allowed to bid on this contract? Yes. 11. Please clarify your requirement for Exclusivity of Application Programming Interface agreement with eBay. Did you imply exclusivity granted by eBay to the contractor or exclusivity granted to USMC by the contractor for the intellectual property developed during performance of this contract? Exlusivity granted by Ebay to the contractor. 12. If you meant agreement with eBay, would such an agreement need to be signed prior to submitting proposal or it can be done after award? Would need to be done as part of the proposal. 13. Please clarify your requirement for “certificate of compliance”. A certificate showing an agreement with Ebay or other conditions/requirements outlined in the solicitation. 14. Are you aware of any company that may have such agreement already in place? Yes. 15. What is the anticipated award date? During September 2004. 16. Would you accept an electronic (via email) submission of the proposal? Yes. 17. Search engines index between forty and fifty percent of the web. Does the Marine Corps require the use of a separate crawler to collect information from websites not covered by search engines? That is for the offeror to determine and submit in their proposal. 18. Does the Marine Corps wish to capture sites potentially selling target items that are only enabled for short periods of time to avoid detection or being indexed by search engines. Yes. 19. Does the Marine Corps require the vendor to locate and isolate foreign language (i.e. Pashto, Dari, Farsi, Arabic) websites selling target items? That is for the offeror to determine and submit in their proposal. 20. Will the Marine Corps require additional information regarding in sites selling target times? (i.e. Registered owner, ISP hosting information, Unique monthly visitors, Network routing information)? That is for the offeror to determin NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (26-AUG-2004); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/DON/USMC/M67854/M67854-04-R-3101/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00656158-F 20040828/040827101448 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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