CJIS Somalia ABIS RFI FY 2025.pdf

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

FINANCE AND FACILITIES DIVISION | PROCUREMENT SECTION

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION SOMALIA AUTOMATED

BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

DJF-25-RFI-01102025

Somalia Automated Biometric Information System (ABIS)

For Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division

1/10/2025

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DISCLAIMER:

THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

OR QUOTE. 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

ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL

DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

INTRODUCTION

Responses to this RFI may be used to formulate final requirements and/or to identify qualified vendors capable of meeting those requirements. The description below outlines preliminary requirements envisioned for the Somalia Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) project. The information gathered may be used to formulate acquisition strategies for competitive solicitations. Clearly mark any proprietary information included in your response.

BACKGROUND

With its vast land mass, political instability, sparse law enforcement presence, warring factions, and continued conflict in neighboring Yemen, East Africa has become a haven for criminal groups, including terrorist groups. Despite these and other challenges in the region, the Somali Police Force (SPF) has shown that well-resourced and well-trained civilian law enforcement can play a vital role in countering terrorism. Beginning in late 2014, the Department of State’s (DOS) Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) partnered with the SPF to establish professional, multi-functional, mentored Joint Investigative Teams (JITs) which prevent, respond to, and investigate terrorist attacks within a rule-of-law framework.

The ability to biometrically identify criminals, including terrorists, is one of the pillars of modern policing. In Somalia, the SPF has been collecting fingerprints from criminals, including terrorists, for many years but lacks the technical ability to complete comparisons to find matches because collected fingerprints are not processed and stored in a way they can be used for identification purposes.

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Through a United States Government (USG) interagency-led initiative, the U.S. DOS Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division coordinated the contract to develop an ABIS and supporting biometric enrollment workstations for the Federal Government of Somalia. The ABIS has a database with a capacity of 2,000,000 ten print records and 50,000 latent records and is located at a secure facility within the Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ) compound. The ABIS is supported by a remote enrollment/query workstations and one administrative workstation.

The ABIS database is populated by existing card-based records, which were converted to an electronic format. The ABIS database is duplicated in a back-up server located in a secondary secure facility away from the airport.

The ABIS provides the SPF with the ability to accurately and quickly identify individuals with records related to previous criminal or terrorism activities. SPF personnel have been trained on the use and administration of the ABIS and related workstations.

The objective of this RFI is to poll the market for vendors capable of continuing operations and maintenance of the Somali ABIS for the next two years (FY 26-27). The current task order number is 15F06724F0001784.

CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS

This RFI is open to biometric vendors and integrators for market research only to request input from potential providers of automated biometric identification system technologies. The Government would like to know which firms can provide the products and services for this contemplated requirement by identifying themselves and responding to this RFI.

Required Information:

Contractor Legal/DBA Name:

Address:

Point of Contact:

Telephone:

Email Address:

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DUNS Number:

Cage Code:

Facility Clearance (if applicable):

Applicable NAICS Codes:

Standard Business Size:

GSA Schedule:

NASA SEWP Contract:

CONTEMPLATED REQUIREMENT

The FBI’s CJIS Division, Global Initiatives Unit is issuing this RFI to gather information on the vendors capable of fulfilling the below requirements:

o Maintaining all software licenses (Lakota Software Solutions, Inc. – Whorl application), hardware, and biometric matchers (NEC Corporation) for the Somalia ABIS and biometric enrollment stations.

o Provide Contiguous United States (CONUS) and Outside of the Contiguous United States (OCONUS) on-site support to SPF and U.S. Government personnel in Mogadishu, Somalia to maintain the operational capacity of the ABIS and enrollment stations.

o Provide quarterly in-person end-user training on the enrollment workstations for SPF personnel, in coordination with the government to comply with Leahy vetting requirements.

o Provide in-person IT Specialist training for SPF personnel on the administrative functions of the ABIS and the enrollment workstations, in coordination with the government to comply with Leahy vetting requirements.

o Provide virtual support when in-person support is not necessary to maintain the operation of the ABIS and enrollment stations. Responses to the government or Somali authorities should be provided within 24 hours of submission.

o The quoter shall maintain a physical office no more than 25 miles from the CJIS Division’s campus (located at 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, WV 26306), to allow for the transfer of biometric records for ingestion into the databases.

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o Subject to additional funding, the quoter shall procure and deploy additional biometric collection platforms similar to those already fielded with the Somalia ABIS in Mogadishu (Dell Precision 3440 Workstation running Windows 10 Professional and a 24” LCD monitor, including an Integrated Biometrics Kojak FAP 60 live scan fingerprint scanner, Fujitsu fi-7600 document scanner, Lexmark MS820 Printer, Canon EOS Rebel T7 camera w/ tripod, APC Back-UPS 650VA, with Lakota Whorl Enrollment Workstation and LIA Scan software installed).

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DISCLAIMER and RESPONSES

THERE IS NO COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO ISSUE A SOLICITATION AS A RESULT OF

THIS RFI. THIS IS BEING ISSUED SOLEY FOR INFORMATIONAL AND PLANNING PURPOSES AND

DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICTIATION. 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 IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL OR QUOTE. 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 ANNOUNCEMENT. NO

FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS

STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

THIS RFI IS DESIGNED TO ENGAGE INDUSTRY IN A TRANSPARENT MANNER FOR

INFORMATION AND FEEDBACK TO DETERMINATE VIABILITY AND COST. IF FURTHER

CLARIFICATION IS REQUIRED, THE GOVERNMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE WITH

RESPONDENTS FOR A MORE ROBUST UNDERSTANDING. THIS CLARIFICATION MAY BE

REQUESTED IN THE FORM OF BRIEF VERBAL COMMUNICATION BY TELEPHONE OR

TELECONFERENCE, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION. IN

ADDITION, THE GOVERNMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE RESPONDENTS FOR

DEMONSTRATION OF TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS SUBMITTED.

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WHAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN YOUR RESPONSE:

1. Company name and business size

2. All interested parties shall submit capability packages in response to this notice. Provide evidence to show that your company can provide the requested services and/or products required (i.e. technical ability, personnel, and experience). Information provided shall be succinct and related to the requested information in this RFI. All submissions shall be unclassified.

3. Do submit succinct, thoughtful responses to the requirements/questions listed in this

RFI.

4. Do submit comments that address the FBI's requirements, assumptions, conditions or contemplated approaches to this future acquisition.

5. Do submit information and suggestions that may encourage new, different, or innovative approaches that would result in products, solutions, and direct savings to the

FBI.

6. Provide other assumptions, comments, concerns, and/or questions relating to the contemplated services.

7. Please provide 2-5 examples of recent (Within the last 5 years as of posting date) past experience supporting similar projects for the Government. Provide the value, period of performance, a brief outline of the scope of work. If applicable, please provide the contract number. At least one example should be as a PRIME contractor. Other examples can be from subcontracting.

8. Please provide a list of available Government Wide Acquisition Contracts where your company is a holder.

WHAT SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN YOUR RESPONSE

1. Do not submit proposals or offers.

2. Do not submit past performance information or general descriptions of corporate experience.

3. Do not submit requests to be considered for award or to be notified of a future solicitation.

4. Do not submit requests to be added to a mailing list or distribution list.

5. Do not submit questions or comments not related to this RFI.

6. Do not respond via telephone.

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RFI SUBMITTAL INSTRUCTIONS:

All submission shall be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint or PDF format. All information should be UNCLASSIFIED material only. Submissions shall not exceed twenty (20) one-sided 8 ½ x 11 pages. The pages shall have one-inch margins and font size must be at least 12-point font. Interested parties may submit optional specifications and/or drawings.

All submissions should be emailed no later than 01/24/2025 3:00 pm ET to Contract Officer Haley Ice at hnice@fbi.gov and Contract Specialist Christa Soldani at clwolfe@fbi.gov. E-mail subject line shall be labeled “FY 25 CJIS ABIS RFI.”

The cost of responding to the RFI shall be exclusively borne by the organization submitting the information. No costs will be reimbursed by the Government. The FBI makes no implied or in fact contract by issuing this RFI.

All clarifications, questions, and responses must be made via email ONLY. All questions regarding this RFI shall be in writing. No phone calls will be accepted.

Estimated Milestone Schedule:

RFI Submitted on SAM.gov - 01/10/2025 Clarifications due to Government – 01/15/2025 Responses due to industry – 01/17/2025 Final RFI Responses Due – 01/24/2025