SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Request for Information About Currently Available Internet Video and/or Webcasting Services
- Notice Date
- 7/23/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-04-182-RFI-1
- Response Due
- 8/31/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/1/2004
- Point of Contact
- Joseph Widdup, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-6324, Fax (301) 975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
joseph.widdup@nist.gov
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OR A REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS; IT IS STRICTLY A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI). NEITHER UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS NOR ANY OTHER KINDS OF OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED IN RESPONSE TO THIS RFI. The U. S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD is currently performing market research to determine what kinds of commercial service offerings and related capabilities currently exist for Internet video and webcasting services. Along those lines, NIST seeks responses to this RFI from commercial sources to indicate what kinds of Internet video and/or webcasting services they currently offer. In responding to this RFI, respondents should indicate whether currently commercially available solutions are available that can provide one or more of the following services/capabilities and exactly how the system works: 1. Ability to create a flexible meeting environment to accommodate small collaborative sessions and large more structured presentations, optimized to make it easy to present and for meeting attendees to have an enjoyable and productive experience. 2. Ability to show and share visuals, applications and web pages, files or software to participants in real time. 3. Ability to perform instant polling ? receive feedback from meeting attendees with real-time polling. 4. Inclusion of electronic whiteboards. 5. Provision of secure access ? control access to meetings through appropriate means like meeting IDs and passwords or individual authentication ? meeting organizers can decide what type of access is appropriate. 6. Ability to provide live streaming, on-demand streaming services, video encoding services, PowerPoint synchronized webcast, including live & post event on-demand captioning services. 7. Ability to provide any other related services/capabilities that are currently commercially available. NIST also seeks detailed commercial specifications for currently available solutions that can currently be purchased accomplish these objectives, including, if applicable, hardware requirements, software requirements, and any other technical products that would need to be purchased. Next, NIST seeks commercial list price information (or possible range of pricing if commercial list price does not exist, for whatever Internet video and webcasting services are currently available in the marketplace. This pricing should reflect how current Internet video and webcasting services are currently priced and structured for commercial marketplace sales, including any tiered pricing that is available based on number of users, number of licenses, etc. Finally, NIST seeks to determine whether currently commercially available Internet video and webcasting services could potentially be procured on a multiple year contract basis (i.e., contract with a base period of one year and one-year options to extend the term of the contract after that?each year including pre-priced line items for predefined levels of service/licensing/use.) Respondents should email responses and, if available, commercially available literature and commercial list price information to Joseph.Widdup@nist.gov no later than August 31, 2004. Such responses will be used to assist NIST in determining how to construct minimum requirements in the event that a procurement is conducted in the future.
- Record
- SN00629319-W 20040725/040723211837 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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