SSN-RFI_ Parcel Building Footprint Data FINAL 11-26.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (SSN/RFI)

Parcel Building Footprint Data Services

Notice ID: CEN-GEO-0026

Synopsis:

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY to identify and determine the capabilities of businesses to perform the services described in section

2.0 below. Based on responses, an assessment will be made whether the Government can set-aside this procurement for small businesses. This (SSN/RFI) is issued solely for information and planning purposes – it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an

RFP in the future. In accordance with FAR 15.201 (e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. This (SSN/RFI) does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, the USCB is not at this time seeking proposals and will not accept any unsolicited proposals. Responders are advised that the U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this (SSN/RFI); all costs associated with responding to this (SSN/RFI) will be solely at the interested party’s expense. Not responding to this (SSN/RFI) does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if any is issued. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the sam.gov website or if the market research results in a GSA schedule buy it will be announced on GSA’s E-Buy website. It is the responsibility of the potential offerors to monitor these sites for additional information pertaining to this requirement.

The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 519290, "Web

Search Portals and All Other Information Services". The Government is interested in identifying all small businesses including Small Disadvantaged Businesses 8(a)s, Service-Disabled Veteran-

Owned Small Businesses, HUBZone Businesses, and Women-Owned Small Businesses capable of performing these services. The government requests that interested parties respond to this notice in accordance with Section’s 3 and 4 of this (SSN/RFI).

1.0 Background/Description

1.1 The United States Census Bureau’s (USCB) Geography Division (GEO) is responsible for collecting and maintaining the geographic data necessary to support agency programs and initiatives. Over 40,000 tribal, state, and local governments contribute to the geographic information managed by the USCB by providing regular input and feedback on the USCB’s boundaries, streets, and addresses. GEO analyzes and updates the geospatial data (address and spatial) for the Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and

Referencing (MAF/TIGER) system and in support of all USCB censuses and surveys. This geographic base contributes to the efficient and accurate collection and tabulation of data for the

Decennial Census, the American Community Survey (ACS), the Economic Census, and annual estimates and surveys such as the Population Estimates Program (PEP).

GEO is responsible for the analysis of numerous geographic data inputs to enhance the

MAF/TIGER system. To continue these enhancements, GEO is interested in procuring combined parcel and building footprint data that offers us the opportunity to isolate, prioritize, and correct http://www.fedbizopps.gov/ problematic areas within the Master Address File (MAF). This dataset also provides a significant opportunity to automate portions of the existing in-office Parcel Address Matching Service

(PAMS) project by leveraging the links provided between structures and parcels, improving the geocoding of addresses, and ensuring more accurate locations for those addresses which we already have in the MAF/TIGER system.

2.0 Requirements

2.1 Required Services

The contractor shall provide a combined parcel and building footprint dataset of the United

States (defined as 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and the four Island Areas) to support various update and research projects within the Geography Division. The parcel data provided by the

Contractor may be used in multiple internal research projects to ensure that GEO is equipped with the most robust suite of attributed parcel data to support the 2030 in-office address canvassing processes.

The contractor must provide a data product that satisfies the following requirements:

• a parcel polygon file and a building footprints file, in shapefile or File Geodatabase format, linkable by a key field also provided by the vendor.

• detailed information about the vintage of the parcel data (i.e. when it was collected by the vendor).

• parcel attribution data including situs and mailing address, owner name, property value, use code, and postal delivery fields.

• a parcel product that has coverage for all of the counties in the United States (defined as

50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico)

• Files should be downloadable at the state level or allow for batch downloading of multiple counties with a single action via FTP download or similar process.

• conducting geospatial operations with the data and making internal copies of the data.

• provide GEO the capability to display as a read-only reference layer the parcel boundary geometry (no attribution) on products and software used by our state and local government partners.

2.2 Delivery Period:

Based on the results of this (SSN/RFI), final decisions shall be made on the acquisition schedule.

Currently, it is the intention to award a contract for a base period of performance of March 2025 through March 2026, with 2 (12) Month option periods.

2.3 Limitations:

No current limitations. The government is seeking information from all potential contractors who can meet the needs stated in this (SSN/RFI).

3 Requested Information

Interested contractors should provide the following information:

3.1 Company Overview:

a. A brief description of your company.

b. Socio-economic status, business size, and size standard/applicable North American

Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.

c. Unique Entity ID (UEI).

d. Web site address.

e. Government and commercial clients. Please include the scale of these contracts by dollar value, full time equivalent employees (FTEs), or number of annual contacts.

3.2 Key Questions to Be Answered by Vendors

1. Does your company offer parcel and building footprint data that covers every county in the United States, including Puerto Rico and territories?

2. Does your company offer as part of the parcel file (or in a format easily joinable to the parcel file) the situs address information for all addresses where such addresses exist in the local government source data, including “secondary addresses” (i.e.

individual unit addresses in apartment buildings or individual lots in mobile home parks)?

3. Does your company link or provide a methodology to link individual addresses

(including secondary addresses) to both individual parcels in the parcel file and individual building footprints in the building footprint file?

4. Describe the currency of the parcel data and building footprint data that your company provides. What percentage of parcels in your file at a given point in time have been updated less than 6 months previously? Less than a year previously? Less than two years previously? More than two years previously? (Same for building footprints).

5. Does your company offer your data in a web services format or is it only available as files to download? Is there a limit to how many concurrent users we could have before running into performance issues?

6. Can your company provide a data dictionary describing all the attribute fields of the provided parcel data?

7. Are the fields within your parcel file standardized for every county in the nation?

8. How is the situs address data represented in your data? Do you have separate fields for the various components (i.e., house number, street name, and ZIP code) or is it all integrated into a single field?

9. How do you format situs address unit data regarding unit descriptors (APT and UNIT, for example) and unit identifiers (A and 101, for example). Are the unit descriptors and unit identifiers split into separate fields?

10. How do you format address data for Puerto Rico and the island territories?

11. Do you include an address confidence score or any other data confidence scores?

4.0 Responses

4.1 Interested parties are requested to respond to this (SSN/RFI).

4.2 Responses shall be in Microsoft Word for Office compatible format and are due no later than December 16, 2024 at Noon EST. Responses shall be limited to 5 typed pages with no smaller than 12-point Times New Roman font and submitted via e-mail to

Pithy.T.Sar@census.gov and Bryan.Allan.Shearer@census.gov. Proprietary information, if any, should be minimized and MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED. To aid the Government, please segregate proprietary information. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned.

5.0 Industry Discussions

USCB representatives may or may not choose to meet with potential offerors. Such discussions would only be intended to get further clarification of potential capability to meet the requirements, especially any development and certification risks.

6.0 Questions

Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to the

Contracting Officer Bryan Shearer at email address Bryan.Allan.Shearer@census.gov and the

Contract Specialist Ty Sar at email address Pithy.T.Sar@census.gov. Verbal questions will NOT be accepted. Questions will be answered by posting answers to the Synopsis on the sam.gov website; accordingly, questions shall NOT contain proprietary or classified information. The

Government does not guarantee that questions received after December 6, 2024, at noon EST will be answered.

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