USDA-ERS Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Membership

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) is seeking a membership in the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) consortium. The GTAP consortium provides publicly available data sets for using computable general equilibrium models, which the ERS uses for analyzing policy. The membership includes participation in planning for next year's new data acquisition decisions. The contract is expected to be a firm-fixed price requirements contract with a one-year period. • The GTAP Data Base is constructed by the Center for Global Trade Analysis, but the data is supplied by the GTAP Network which consists of individuals, agencies, and institutions from around the world. • The GTAP Data Base is fully documented and all sources and procedures used to create the data must be provided. • The necessity to provide the documentation, along with the use of the GTAP software, is designed to permit applications to be readily replicated by researchers. • The GTAP Data Base is only available through the GTAP Consortium, and the GTAP Consortium is only offered through Purdue University.