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The AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF | AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE has issued a Tender notice for the procurement of a Retail Scanner Data in the USA. This Tender notice was published on 13 Aug 2026 and is scheduled to close on 17 Aug 2026, with an estimated Tender value of Refer Document. Interested bidders can access detailed Tender information, eligibility criteria, and complete bidding documents by referencing TOT Ref No. 147128737, while the tender notice number is 1171685-SS and Registering on the platform.
Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Retail Scanner Data
Deadline: 17 Aug 2026
Posting Date: 13 Aug 2026
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 147128737
Document Ref. No.: 1171685-SS
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Sources Sought Notice
Retail Scanner Data
Sources Sought #1171685-SS
This is a Sources Sought notice Only. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. This Sources Sought is issued for information and planning purposes only as part of USDA ARS market research and does not itself constitute an RFQ.
General Information
This study will extend the previously estimated Food-at-Home Monthly Area Prices (F-MAP) data set for 2023, 2024, and 2025. This project responds to the intense interest in access to healthy and affordable food in the United States. Specifically, it will (1) estimate weights and statistical replicate weights for retail scanner data for 2023 and 2024, (2) map UPCs in retail scanner data to 90 ERS Food Purchase Groups (EFPG), and (3) estimate panel price indexes for the 90 EFPGs in 10 metropolitan areas, 4 Census regions and the United States. Additionally, the results of this and previous research about the food price environment (4) will be disseminated to ERS employees through training, and (5) help ERS staff to estimate the 2025 F-MAP and address inconsistencies in past deliverables.
Proprietary retail scanner data are the backbone of many USDA high-profile and high-impact research products and are used widely across the agency and academic institutions to answer research questions relevant to the USDA mission. For example, research using retail scanner data includes (1) real-time economic surveillance of food prices that are of interest to the administration; (2) estimating the affordability of healthy foods; (3) evaluation of the Food Safety Modernization Act, (4) estimation of the relationship between food choices and food prices. According to a recent ERS report, the number of stores and the sales coverage in the retail scanner data obtained by ERS are underreported in some geographic areas. To overcome this challenge, ERS developed retail scanner weights for 2012-2022 that allow projection of th...
Notice ID: 1171685-ss
Department/Ind. Agency: agriculture, department of
Sub-tier: agricultural research service
Office: usda ars afm apd
Product Service Code: aa11 - agriculture r&d services; agricultural research and services; basic research
NAICS Code: 541720 - Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Inactive Dates: sep 01, 2026
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
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