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DEMONSTRATION THAT THE CONTRACTORS UNIQUE QUALIFICATIONS OR NATURE OF THE ACQUISITION REQUIRES THE USE OF THE AUTHORITY CITED ABOVE (APPLICABILITY OF AUTHORITY) Congressional Quarterly Inc. is the only service presently on the market that provides the full range of current data base access products as well as proprietary assessments required to access and analyze DoD related legislation. Listed below, by data source, is why each CQ database has unique features found in no other vendor?s product or platform. -CQ Today: Proprietary CQ content- Forward-looking articles on all-important activities schedule for that day plus a comprehensive wrap-up of all the previous day?s Hill News. -CQ Weekly: Proprietary CQ content?Provides a clear, unbiased perspective of how legislation is shaped, who is shaping it and how the process could affect our interests. Full text is available and searchable before the magazine goes to press, with archives back to 1983. The ability to browse stories from the current issue by topic, via the online subject index. Related links alongside the text of CQ Weekly stories include sidebar stories and links to create custom alerts based on bill numbers or subject areas within the story, view profiles of members mentioned in the story, create a related bills chart, and access related documents selected by CQ editors. - CQ Committee and Subcommittee Schedules: CQ contacts every committee every day to provide the most detailed listings on all scheduled floor, committee and subcommittee action. Included dates, times, locations, agendas, contact information and witnesses. CQ allows searching of CQ schedules by subcommittee detailing witness information, committee/subcommittee and sends updates and additions via e-mail automatically through alert function. Included archives back to 1987. - Newsmaker Transcripts: CQ Transcriptions provides verbatim transcripts of speeches, press conferences, and news events with particular emphasis on the President and the Executive Branch, Congress, the State Department, Pentagon, and Department of Justice. Newsmaker transcripts also include interviews of key government officials on various TV talk shows, including NBC's "Today Show," CBS's "Early Show," ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "American Morning," CNN's "Live Today", ABC's "This Week," and more. -CQ BillTrack: (CQ Proprietary CQ Content) More detailed, comprehensive chronologies of actions on bills than offered by any other source, with more links to additional information in CQ.com. Full chronology includes descriptions of all amendments in committee and during floor debate, as well as identification of related bills, and citations to members? statements on bills in the Congressional Record, indicating the tenor of their remarks. Links are available for Congressional Record references, yea-nay vote tallies, CQ coverage of committee markups and hearings, and related bills. -CQ Custom Bill Reports: Proprietary Content-included with CQ Bill Track- Choose the information you need to see on each of your bills from a chart of major milestones to a detailed legislative history. Use a personal list of bills to quickly create a bill status report. -CQ Budget Tracker: included with CQ BillTrack-Allows CQ.com subscribers to keep track of appropriations bills through a special status chart providing links to related CQ Stories, floor and committee amendments and votes, committee and conference reports and related/companion bills. Through special Traffic Alerts updated real-time, CQ editors keep you informed in the latest developments. - CQ Bill Analysis: CQ proprietary content, offers original in-depth analysis of bills, including overview, background, highlights and outlook. Users may request specific analysis of a bill to be done within 24 hours. -Bill Text-(1987-present) - Full Text of all bill versions. Each Bill is keyword searchable and also includes links to a PDF version of the bill from the US Government Printing Office (GPO) Web Site. Usually updated between 8am-10am one or two days after the bill?s introduction. Users can search for bills using personalized lists, or by words or phrases, bill numbers, member names, committees, chamber, stage in the legislation process, bill version date or date the bill is introduced. Results can be sorted by bill number, date introduced, sponsor and relevancy. - CQ Bill Text Comparisons: allows users to compare bills back to the 104th Congress, including by section. - CRS Bill Digest: is fully integrated into CQ BillTrack and users can run alerts against them. - CQ Committee Coverage: proprietary CQ content- Same day news coverage on all open markups and some that are closed including summaries of amendments, roll-call vote breakdowns and voice vote outcomes. Comprehensive committee votes coverage is available within 24 hours of the markup. CQ committee Coverage also included listings of past hearing and meetings, with witness lists included. Updated within hours of the event. Markup coverage provided back to 1989 (101st Congress). News stories are online within hours of the markups; all data can be run against alerts. - CQ Committee Rosters: Included with CQ Committee Coverage-are integrated into the CQ Members and CQ Committees database. Provides key staff information updated as new information becomes available. - CQ Committee Reports: CQ enhances Committee Reports to allow users to narrow search by word, committee, chamber, publication date simultaneously; with archives back to the 101st Congress. - Congressional Transcripts: Users may request that hearings be covered via on-line request form, with coverage available 24-48 hours after hearing; and all transcripts can be run against alerts. - Congressional Record: Searchable by word, member, bill number, chamber, page number, 18 specific categories and publication date; all data can be run against alerts. Data archives back to 100th Congress. Updated daily between 8am ? 9am. - CQ House Action Reports: Proprietary CQ content: Legislative Day, showing what?s due up on the House floor, including likely amendments; Legislative Week, showing what?s due up on the House floor for the coming week; CQ HAR Fact Sheets, detailing the provisions of major bills and key points of debate; Conference Reports, detailing ? in advance of House floor debate ? the content of Conference Committee reports on bills; and Floor Summaries, recapping what happened during House floor debate ? all integrated with CQ BillTrack, and available for use in alerts. - CQ Senate Watch: Proprietary CQ content, summary of scheduled and potential Senate action, providing essential details about legislation and leadership decisions. - CQ Record Scanner: Proprietary CQ content?Provides high-level summaries of each day?s Congressional Record with links to the full text. - CQ Legislative Impact: Shows users how pending legislation would affect existing laws and the U.S. Code. Legislative Impact enables users to search by bill number, code cite, statute-at-large number, word in act name or word in public law text. It also displays how laws have been amended over time or would be amended by pending legislation. Custom e-mail alerts notify users when bills are introduced that would amend existing laws in their interest areas. -U.S. Code: The complete text of the U.S. Code, in the most current version available. Each section is updated as new laws are passed. Users can create custom e-mail alerts that will notify them when bills are enrolled that would change specific sections of the code. -Public Law Text: The complete text of public laws, dating to the First Congress, in 1789. Public Law Text includes margin annotations. The text is fully searchable since the 104th Congress. PDF versions are also available. - CQ Top Docs: Provides access to the full text of CRS reports, draft bills, GAO and CBO documents, Statements of Administration Policy, and other key government documents. Users also can receive daily notification of all documents gathered during the previous 24 hours and request that CQ staff obtain specific documents that are not yet in the Top Docs database. - Federal Register: This is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules and notices of federal agencies as well as executive orders and other presidential documents from 1997 to present. Available on CQ.com each morning by 9 a.m., it contains full text, searchable by keyword, date, agency or item type. - CQ Archives: no other source offers the extensive archive of these government documents. Bill Text back to the 100th Congress, Committee Reports back to 101st Congress, Congressional Record back to 100th Congress; CQ BillTrack back to 99th Congress, CQ Committee Coverage back to 101st Congress, CQ Floor votes back to 98th Congress, CQ Weekly back to 1983, CQ Today back to 99th Congress, and Congressional Transcripts back to 101st Congress. - CQ Member Profiles: Proprietary content, includes in-depth political biographies of all members of Congress, with CQ's exclusive vote studies on each member's voting record. Member profiles are fully integrated into CQ.com and are archived back to 104th Congress. - CQ Floor Votes: Proprietary CQ content?For every vote on the House and Senate floors, CQ provides a useful summary of the vote, the outcome of the vote, the vote tally by party, a list of the members and how they voted, and the president?s position, if known. CQ Floor Votes is updated within two hours of the vote. The archive dates to the 102nd Congress. - Floor Debate Video: Includes comprehensive, searchable database of over 9,500 hours of floor debate dating to the 107th Congress. Users can search by member name, congressional session and keywords to access video clips of member?s floor statements. ReCap?video coverage of House and Senate floor action. Provides keyword-searchable and alertable transcripts of all floor debate.ReClip?allows congressional offices and media organizations to select video segments and post them to their Web site. - Custom E-Mail Alerts: You can create a Custom Alert on any search criteria, across any combination of sources you subscribe to. Choose your own notification schedule and delivery format. Results are sent to your email account and posted to your very own personal Results Page located at the MyCQ Tab. - Personal Search List: For bills, words and phrases, members and votes. Your personal lists will always be available to you, whether you?re searching or creating Alerts or reports. Changes to your custom list will automatically be reflected everywhere you?ve used that list, making it the easiest way for you to centralize your tracking. - CQ?s Advanced Search: Provides additional search options to assist users in locating documents. Depending upon the database, options may included bill number, key words or phrases, committees, subcommittees, sponsor, stage in legislative process, words in bill title, member name, chamber, date bill introduced, public law number, pages numbers, amendment numbers, CR categories and subject. - In-Line Linking: Link to a ?baseball card? of information on Bill and Public Laws from CQ?s news, committee stories, schedules, committee vote descriptions, and Bill Analysis documents. - CQ Reference Files: Available throughout CQ.com and updated when necessary, Reference Files include: the status of major legislation; past appropriations and authorization bills; the recess schedule for the current Congress (PDF format); lists of governors, Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, Congress by the numbers (sessions and years); links to the Code of Federal Regulations; and the latest bills introduced. In addition to their vast database of information, CQ currently has the largest press corps with 120 reporters cleared to cover Capitol Hill. CQ will also cover hearings at the request of their clients. There is no other vendor(s) that provide web access in a single, integrated Web interface, with the ability to search across multiple information sources by using words, bill numbers, member names, vote information, committee lists and more. Further, all of this information can be delivered via a single custom e-mail alert. CQ is the only service that covers every legislative action in Congress. CQ.com?s integrated platform allows users to search across all services with one simple search. It also enables users to create custom e-mail alerts that deliver results from all services in real time.