2025 LPR RFI (FINAL).docx

LPR

U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Request For Information (RFI)

For:

Licenses Plate Reader (LPR) Data Access

May 20, 2025 section 1. Introduction Disclaimer THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) OR QUOTE (RFQ). IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS RFI. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. NOT RESPONDING TO THIS RFI DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE RFP, IF ISSUED. ALL SUBMISSIONS BECOME GOVERNMENT PROPERTY AND WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Background The Office of Intelligence Operations (OIO) provides critical law-enforcement resources in support of reducing violent crime and protecting the public. Staffed by a number of dedicated law-enforcement intelligence analysts, support professionals, and officials, the mission of OIO has always been to enhance decision-making Bureau-wide by providing timely, accurate and focused intelligence through the collection and analysis of information.

In recent years, LPR systems have proven to be effective in a wide range of applications, including law enforcement. ATF aims to leverage these capabilities to support our operational objectives. Due to the rapid advancement of technology in vehicle identification systems, ATF seeks programs with assurance of application security, efficiency and accuracy in their vehicle recognition processes. The LPR technology will be utilized to query comprehensive data from both commercial and the law enforcement environments to identify targets related to ATF missions.

Key capabilities required to support the ATF missions are LPR systems that will facilitate real-time data monitoring of vehicular traffic, geospatially enabled watchlists that can enable ATF to match all available LPR data against vehicles of interest and receive hit notifications. A feature that can provide ATF the ability to enter an address to see all visits to that location. An LPR system that provides a reporting feature allowing for multiple points of interest to be defined on a map with corresponding geofence or area of interest and times/dates, for the location of common plates that are seen in more than one of the locations of interest. As well as able to provide the ability to identify other vehicles commonly seen near a known person(s) of interest’s vehicle.

Section 2. Requirments The primary objective of this effort is to procure a state-of-the-art License Plate recognition (LPR) system that enables efficient, accurate and secure querying of the relevant law enforcement and commercial databases. This system shall/must support law enforcement operations to support ATF’s daily operational needs for use in intelligence and investigative activities, for example, to identify plates associated with potential suspects or persons of interest, and those subjects associated with the target individuals; support for complex investigations, such as investigations into violent gang activity, firearms traffickers or cigarette diversion activity. A LPR system is used in support of ATF’s critical mission to protect our communities from violent criminals; criminal organizations; the illegal use and trafficking of firearms; the illegal use and storage of explosives; acts of arson and bombings; acts of terrorism; and the illegal diversion of alcohol and tobacco products. ATF requires access to national license plate reader data and the LPR analytics software to support its daily operational needs for use in intelligence and investigative activities.

· Geospatially enabled query capability to leverage the data sharing initiative of a nationwide LPR system to match all available LPR data against agency created watchlists and provide “hits” on a map interface with agency-customizable icons. ATF will use this both to locate vehicles of interest and to visualize criminal hotspots for predictive policing efforts.

· The ability to see all “visits” to a particular location via entry of an address. In addition, select visits and monitor a location, seeing all LPR scans collected by a driver on a given “visit”.

· Ability to define multiple points of interest on a map, with corresponding geofences or areas of interest and times/dates, for the location of “common plates” that are seen in more than one of the locations of interest. This feature supports investigations into pattern crimes for generating leads into the identification of violent criminals and the identification of associated members of criminal organizations.

· Ability to identify “known associates” by querying a known plate to identify other vehicles commonly seen near the suspect vehicle. This feature is useful in identifying possible associates of a known suspect or perhaps establishing a pattern of surveillance between a perpetrator and a victim.

· Query capability to define a search using geofences or areas of interest through simple drawing tools (rectangles, circles, and custom polygons) on a map interface.

· Ability to search for vehicles based on the vehicle’s Year, Make and Model and in some cases color

· Ability to conduct batch queries of vehicles against data stored within the LPR system.

· Ability to export LPR data in a format easily utilized by ESRI and i2 Analysts Notebook, such as .csv, .xlsx, .xls, JSON, .shp, or via API.

· Accessibility via application programming interface (API) or other similar mechanisms so its data can be easily searched against and viewed in a federated search application or other external applications.

Contractor Qualifications.

· The Contractor must be able to demonstrate that they can meet the described requirements in section 2.

· The Contractor must be registered and up to date in the System for Award Management (SAM).

Responding to the RFI.

PLEASE NOTE: Any document submitted that contains confidential/proprietary information must be marked on the outside as containing confidential information, and each page upon which confidential information appears must be marked as containing confidential information. The confidential information must be clearly identifiable to the reader wherever it appears.

The respondent shall include information addressing all the above sections within the 15-page limitation not including diagrams or images, consisting of single-sided, 8.5 x 11, Times New Roman or similar, and a 11-font size minimum.

Please reference the question numbers below in your response. The RFI whitepaper should provide the following information:

1. Company Information. Name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail of designated point of contact.

2. If your company would likely bid on a potential RFP, please provide a written response identifying the company’s capabilities and qualified personnel available to perform the task(s) as well as related corporate experience.

3. Please provide a pricing estimate for the commercial offering/capabilities that your firm could provide if there was an RFP issued.

RFI Response Submission The response package must be submitted via email to the following:

· Amanda Boshears, Contracting Officer (CO), amanda.boshears@atf.gov

Additional Submission Information

· This notice is not a Request for Proposal (RFP); it is a market research tool being utilized to determine the availability of qualified sources prior to issuing an RFP.

· ATF is not seeking proposals at this time and will not accept unsolicited proposals.

· No telephone calls will be accepted.

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