This is for market research, not a request for quotations. The purpose of this announcement is to determine if there are any business' that are interested in participating in a solicitation for the services described below.

Any interested business wishing to participate must respond to the attention of Alan Dotson-RFI-FMC-08-0001 to [email protected] before the 2:00 pm et on August 25, 2008. Only timely responses consisting of word document with the following details will be considered:

                · Business Name and Address
                · Business DUNS number (if any)
                · Business size
                · Capabilities Statement/Company Description
                · Point-of-Contact (POC)
                        o Name
                        o Phone Number
                        o Electronic Mail (Email) Address

It is the responsibility of any interested offeror to call BPD to ensure electronic responses were received. BPD assumes no responsibility for the receipt of email.

No other information regarding this requirement will be provided at this time.

OBJECTIVE
The objective of the acquisition is to obtain the services of a contractor    who can supply the following information to the FMC: 
     · Records of all imports and exports through U.S. ports 
     · Information must be available on CD for manipulation and storage by the FMC 
     · Data on CD would include: all imports and exports, steamship lines, vessel names and vessel IMO number, U.S. ports, foreign ports and countries; commodity information to the 4-digit level; Cargo weight in metric tons, TEU, Conflag (whether a shipment is containerized or not), refrigerated flag and NVOCC cargo

The data received on CD: 
     · must be in monthly form with not more than a six-week time lag;
     · must be furnished in FOCUS and Microsoft Access formats(for subsequent uploaded to SQL Server 2005);
     · may be aggregated by FMC staff to produce quarterly and annual reports;
     · shall be owned by the FMC and could be used to develop a historical library; and
     · older data (not currently on-line) shall be available to the FMC at special  discount rates.

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE
September 29, 2008 through September 28, 2009