RFI - CJIS IT Professional Environment CJISRFI09022025.pdf

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

FINANCE AND FACILITIES DIVISION | PROCUREMENT SECTION

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

Request for Information (RFI)

Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) IT Professional Environment

Request Number CJISRFI09022025

09/02/2025

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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

The CJIS Division Enterprise Architecture (EA) team is conducting market research through this Request for Information (RFI) to identify capabilities to enhance the IT Professional Experience.

The key objectives are to standardize environments and toolsets used by IT professionals working, in multiple facets, on various CJIS projects.

This RFI is not a solicitation, and the government will not pay for any costs associated with responding. Responses may contain proprietary information, which must be clearly marked.

There is no set-aside designation, and the government has not disclosed any potential incumbents or current contractors. The government has also not provided any estimated award values or budget ranges, nor have they specified quantities of goods or timelines for services.

The information gathered may be used to formulate acquisition strategies for competitive solicitations.

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BACKGROUND

The CJIS Division Enterprise Architecture (EA) team, located in Clarksburg, WV, provides architectural guidance to CJIS systems serving the criminal justice community.

Currently, IT project related activities for CJIS systems have occurred in self-managed environments (estimated 10 total), segregated by projects using various toolsets, architectures, and languages. CJIS projects have traditionally operated as autonomous entities and personnel movement between systems often requires retraining in the many aspects of development, administration, testing, and securing projects (e.g., learning new tools and processes, new system logins, administrative burden, etc.).

The CJIS Division is striving to unify the environments that are used by developers, system administrators, database administrators, testers, security engineers and other technically focused staff. To support this initiative, the CJIS Division will utilize an RFI and canvass available sources to explore, visualize, and demonstrate concepts to the diversified community of employees involved in an overall IT professional-centric environment. The FBI is seeking vendors that are willing to document an environment that operates in CJIS-controlled/administered government cloud, allows for interconnectivity to existing systems, and provides flexibility to cover staff needs for all tools used in the daily work environment. Tooling for software development, system administration, automated system and security testing should be included in the final documentation to memorialize these concepts for later implementation.

CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS

This RFI is dedicated to market research and is open to all qualified vendors. The purpose is to request input from potential providers of professional services who specialize in development and administration of government cloud hosted services using IT professional environments.

The Government needs to know which firm(s) can provide the necessary information for this contemplated requirement. Please identify yourselves and respond to this RFI.

The following information is requested:

1. Company name and business size.

2. Evidence to show that your company can provide the requested services and/or products required (i.e. technical ability, personnel, and experience). Information

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3. Address whether your company has a GSA Schedule and if they can provide these services on schedule. If applicable, provide the services schedule and SIN.

4. Any additional assumptions, comments, concerns, and/or questions relating to the contemplated services.

Required Information:

Contractor Legal/DBA Name:

Address:

Point of Contact:

Telephone:

Email Address:

DUNS Number:

Cage Code:

Facility Clearance (if applicable):

Applicable NAICS Codes:

Standard Business Size:

GSA Schedule:

NASA SEWP Contract:

CONTEMPLATED REQUIREMENT

Below is a list of the requirements to support Enterprise Architecture in concept exploration and requirements development:

1. Describe a single IT professional environment that can:

a) be hosted, deployed via automation, administered, and updated in a government cloud native environment.

b) use role-based access controls (RBAC) to allow flexibility of administration including roles across disparate projects.

c) be a minimal set of integrated tools.

d) have a simplistic licensing model.

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2. Describe an environment that can support industry standard techniques using industry standard tools for traditional IT Professional roles, including but not limited to:

a) System Administration

b) Software Development

c) Database Administration

d) Security Engineering/Analysis

e) Test Engineering

f) Data Analysts

3. Document how the environment can be made available via commodity means (non-Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) based, i.e. a web browser). The documented solution should minimize additional software required on the end-user’s device.

4. The document should show that an environment can be integrated with existing industry standard software (ticket management, git repository, CI/CD pipelines, wiki).

5. The document should include any integrated cybersecurity scanning tools and suites.

6. Document any use of AI assistants being used by IT professionals and safeguards in place for their use. Particularly used in:

• Code optimization

• Code scanning

• Code generation

• Automation of tasks

• Security scanning

• Document generation

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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.

WHAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN YOUR SUBMITTED RESPONSE:

1. All interested parties shall submit capability packages and (informal) market research pricing in response to this notice.

2. Succinct, thoughtful responses to the requirements/questions listed in this RFI.

3. Comments that address the FBI's requirements, assumptions, conditions, or contemplated approaches to this future acquisition.

4. Information and suggestions that may encourage new, different, or innovative approaches that would result in products, solutions, and direct savings to the FBI.

WHAT SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN YOUR RESPONSE:

1. Submitted proposals or offers.

2. Past performance information or general descriptions of corporate experience.

3. Requests to be considered for award or to be notified of a future solicitation.

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4. Requests to be added to a mailing list or distribution list.

5. Any additional questions or comments not related to this RFI.

6. Responses via telephone will not be accepted.

RFI SUBMITTAL INSTRUCTIONS:

Interested Vendors are invited to submit the above requested information, which shall address all of the contemplated requirements, via a written submission summarizing their solution.

The written response shall be double spaced, in a times new roman or similar font, size 12.

Pages may include images and figures. Responses shall be submitted via Microsoft Word or PDF format. The responses should not exceed 30 pages.

Written responses are due directly to hnice@fbi.gov by 09/29/2025, 12:00PM ET. All costs incurred in responding to this RFI will be solely the responsibility of each individual vendor. No phone calls concerning this RFI are permitted.

If Vendors have questions concerning the contemplated requirements, they should submit the questions, with references to the RFI document, to the Contracting Officer by 09/08/2025 12:00PM ET. Questions shall be submitted in Excel format identifying separate columns for question #, RFI page reference, and question posed.

AT MINIMUM, all emails concerning this RFI shall state “CJIS IT Professional Environment CJISRFI09022025” in their subject line.

Contracting Point of Contact: Contracting Officer, Haley Ice Email: hnice@fbi.gov Address: 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg WV, 26306 mailto:hnice@fbi.gov