; (2) facilitate ease of access to— (A) Federal procurement opportunities for eligible processors and producers of meat food products and poultry products; and (B) subcontracting opportunities by private entities fulfilling Federal meat food products and poultry products procurement contracts; (3) facilitate connection between producers and eligible processors offering copacking services, so that producers may fulfill governmental, retail, restaurant, or institutional contracts directly; (4) facilitate reporting by the Secretary of regional agricultural prices while ensuring data privacy and data ownership for individual digital livestock exchange platform participants; (5) provide open-source access for producers to a tool that allows producers to enhance the traceability of their product attributes; (6) aim to prevent manipulation within markets subject to the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 ( 7 U.S.C. 191 et seq. ), and transactions across the livestock and poultry industry; and (7) test the value of new forms of technology, including distributed ledger and smart contract technologies, in livestock and poultry market platforms and supply chains, to accomplish the objectives described in paragraphs (1) through (6). (e) Compliant forward contracts (1) In general In effectuating any sale of livestock on a digital livestock exchange platform, it shall be unlawful to use a forward contract that— (A) does not contain a firm base price that may be equated to a fixed dollar amount on the date on which the forward contract is entered into; (B) is not offered for bid in an open, public manner under which— (i) buyers and sellers have the opportunity to participate in the bid; (ii) more than 1 blind bid is solicited; and (iii) buyers and sellers may witness bids that are made and accepted; (C) is based on a formula price