Inactive 8(a) Sole Source (FAR 19.8)

The mission of The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) is to anticipate trends and emerging issues in agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America and to co... The mission of The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) is to anticipate trends and emerging issues in agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America and to conduct high-quality, objective economic research to inform and enhance public and private decision making. ERS’s design team must have access to an unlimited number of images, illustrations, and digital media related to agriculture. Agriculture is a pertinent term searched by their team daily. Getty Images new Premium Access Elite package offers user access to diverse collections from both iStock and Getty Images. The iStock collection yields more than 1.9 million results—1.8 million images and 101,000 illustrations—when using the search term “agriculture.” The Elite collection also includes access to Getty’s Creative Royalty-Free (RF), editorial content, and video footage. The Getty Creative RF collection produces more than 274,000 images when searching this term. For comparison, other stock image Web sites such as Shutterstock yields about 37,800 results —33,700 images and 4,000 illustrations¬. Getty’s unique and flexible collection of high quality award-winning still images, illustrations, and video is what makes them an extremely valuable resource to ERS.