Energy Department’s Office of Science seeking media monitoring service

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science is searching for a media monitoring service that both maintains contact information of reporters and pushes announcements out to the media, the agency announced.

The Office of Science also wants to use the platform to increase internal awareness of what is being written and covered about it and topics of interest. Additionally, the system will be used 

• for responding to news coverage pertaining to the office, its labs and programs through traditional and social media; 
• for monitoring the news output of DOE National Laboratories and DOE grantees; and 
• for increasing the awareness of DOE activities in the minds of key publics.

Proposals for this project are due July 6.

This requirement will be used to assist in fulfilling DOE/SC leadership directives to inform key publics about the activities of the Office of Science by (1) securing consistent and reliable contact information for members of the media covering the office; (2) identifying and collecting the stories being published about the office and subjects of interest and (3) responding to breaking news and ongoing conversations among key publics.

The vendor for the project must: provide access to a worldwide contact, distribution, and analysis database system for reporters who cover science and technology in various media platforms, including but not limited to print, broadcast, digital and social media.  

The database should also provide access to stories in worldwide English-language media; including but not limited to print, broadcast, digital and social media; should allow distribution of news materials to reporters in the database from DOE SC email, track and analyze whether the materials were accessed by reporters, and identify stories based on or related to emailed news materials. 

Read the full posting from DOE HERE.