Access to Food and Cosmetic Product and Packaging Databases

The scope of this contract is to acquire the full range of technical, management and support services necessary to obtain and maintain access to US food and cosmetic products. The contract is divided into the following task areas: Project Management Data Access Data Collection Training Support 6.1 Technical Requirements 6.1.1 Datasets The processed food and cosmetic products and their package data (as well as menu data) shall be from a currently existing, commercially available database(s) that shall provide immediate automated access. The data shall include products from all regions of the US (Appendix B indicates the US Census regions) and be accurate, quality-assured, and easily-validated; well organized; stored as relationally searchable information for trend and other analyses; and fully exportable. The database(s) shall be regularly updated and maintained in a current state throughout the base and option periods. Information will be required for the following product types: Processed, and retail food products (e.g. foods, infant formula, etc.; minimum 400,000 products that are selling on the market in the contract year) and thus, over 2 million historical products; (Optional) Restaurant food products/menu items (minimum 50,000 products from top chains) Dietary supplements (minimum 100,000 products); shall be categorized according to the definition in Appendix A Cosmetics (minimum 300,000 products) The following attributes (as shown on the package) shall be required: Package images (legible images of all surfaces (e.g. sides, top, bottom) of product packaging, including internal and external packaging Count of available images per product Information contained on and in product packaging � shall include the following at minimum (each data entry line in the database must be quality assured and -controlled (QA/QC�d) for accuracy as the database is populated) GTIN/UPC/Barcode Nutrition Facts label, including single and dual columns and including multi-packs...