The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, on behalf of the Office of the Open Source Intelligence Executive, or OSIE, has started soliciting industry feedback for potential approaches to managing a commercial data consortium in response to challenges to the Intelligence Community Data Consortium, or ICDC.
ICDC Challenges
According to the request for proposal issued on SAM.gov Tuesday, the IC is faced with challenges regarding commercial data acquisition duplication and commercial data replication and storage. The IC’s current acquisition method for commercially available information, or CAI, often results in duplicate purchases of the same data for various agencies. The data is copied and stored on various systems, resulting in increased costs.
Streamlining Access to Commercially Available Information
ODNI is seeking potential contractors capable of providing consortium data acquisition and management and software creation to address these issues. This unified commercial data acquisition approach aims to streamline access to CAI and avoid duplicate purchases and unnecessary expenses. In addition, this approach can potentially reduce overall data storage.
The agency intends to award one or multiple prototype Other Transaction Agreements, or OTA, to small businesses or nontraditional defense contractors. Traditional defense companies can participate if they involve a nontraditional contractor or provide a one-third cost share.
Interested vendors have until April 28 to send in their responses.
