FBO Daily CBD Direct Changes v0.01 12/20/2001 0. The file will be published every day including holidays and weekends. The data accumulated from the previous day (e.g. posted on 12/13/2001) will be included in the next day's publication (publication date 12/15/2001). Since it is very slow on the weekends, those publications may contain no solicitations and/or no awards sections. We haven't finalized how to handle days with no postings to FedBizOpps.gov, but we will most likely post a shell with no notices to positively confirm we ran our process. There will be a status page accessible from the Web (www.fbodaily.com/status.html) to check system status. 1. FBO#XXXX instead of PSA#XXXX. 2. The following sections have been eliminated: Sources Sought, Special Notices, Surplus Sales, Foreign Standards. 3. The following has been appended to the end of each title to reflect the type of notice '(notice type)' parentheses are included (e.g. (PRESOL), (AWARD)). This has done to allow the parsing of the type of notices as follows: SRCSGT - Sources Sought Notices PRESOL - Presolicitation Notices MOD - Modification Notices FILE - Documents posted to FedBizOpps (e.g. Solicitation Packages) SNOTE - FedBizOpps' version of Special Notices. Now they tend to be used for notices of sole source awards and other more procurement related information. They are assigned to FSG categories and are parsable like Presolictation notices. AWARD - Award Notices 4. Within each FSG category the notices fall in this order SRCSGT, PRESOL, MOD, FILE, and SNOTE. AWARD remains in a separate section at the end. 5. Within notices the POP section includes Place of Performance data and follows the POC (point of contact) information and precedes the E-MAIL: data. 6. The end of each notice has been modified slightly from the CBD version as follows. In the CBD a notice would end with 'Posted mm/dd/yy (W-SNxxxxxx). (0ddd)<' were SNxxxxxx would reflect a serial number from GPO Access (e.g. W-SN515225) and (0ddd) would be the posting date in Julian format (e.g. 0348). Now each notices ends with 'Posted 12/14/01 (fbodaily.com SN00006520). (0348)<' with the difference the 'fbodaily.com' has been added, the SN has been expanded two digits, and now the serial number refers to a Loren Data counter as notices are not serialized by FedBizOpps.gov. 7. A new type of notices, FILE, has been introduced. It provides links to documents posted on FedBizOpps.gov such as Solicitation Packages, Specifications, Preproposal Conference Minutes, etc. They can be just about anything related to procurement. When available, the notice contains the Document Name, Size in bytes, Type of File (e.g. ZIP), and the URL to access the file. The notices are formatting is compatible with a presolicitation notice. 8. CBDDATA: The text at the end of the data file has changed to reflect FBO Daily information, copyrights, etc. 9. Data files can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.fbodaily.com/fbo/oldcbd/. The site currently accepts anonymous FTP, but will require a UserID and Password after 31-Dec-2001.