Manual Basket Shopping & Web Scraping Operations

The contract involves performing manual basket shopping and web scraping to gather retail pricing data where automated syndicated sources are unavailable, requiring both physical and virtual field activities to collect accurate, real-time price information across various retail environments. This includes conducting in-store visits or virtual shopping excursions to document product prices, as well as deploying digital monitoring tools to extract pricing from online retailers, ensuring comprehensive and up-to-date pricing intelligence for goods that lack reliable third-party data coverage. The work is classified under NAICS code 541990 for other professional, scientific, and technical services and is issued as a subcontract by the Department of Defense under the agency name W6QK Acc-Apg Director, with performance required at a location identified by the zip code 24420. The solicitation was posted on July 24, 2026, and responses must be submitted by August 3, 2026, at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. The effort demands precision, consistency, and adaptability in data collection methods across both physical and digital retail platforms, with an emphasis on reliability and timeliness of the gathered information to support broader procurement or pricing analysis initiatives.