We define a trace map for every cohomological correspondence in the motivic stable homotopy category over a general base scheme, which takes values in the twisted bivariant groups. Local contributions to the trace map give rise to quadratic refinements of the classical local terms, and some
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-enumerative invariants, such as the local
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-Brouwer degree and the Euler class with support, can be interpreted as local terms. We prove an analogue of a theorem of Varshavsky, which states that for a contracting correspondence, the local terms agree with the naive local terms.