Questions and Answers_3.pdf
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- DEC-24-0041
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Department of Commerce US Census Bureau
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This document outlines requirements for a federal contract opportunity for driver's license data. The contractor shall provide driver's license numbers, card types, names, addresses, dates of birth, demographics, and source information for multiple states. The data requirements include specific fields for license numbers, issuance dates, card types, first, middle and last names, physical and mailing addresses, dates of birth, sex, race, license statuses. The contractor must also provide file layouts specifying field names, positions, character counts and date formats. Documentation is required on data quality maintenance and merging methodology. The soliciting agency is the United States Census Bureau within the Department of Commerce.
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Action ID: DEC-24-0041 Driver’s License and State Issued Data
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
28 February 2024
1. Does the government want the mentioned information on every individual within the mentioned geographical areas that possess a driver license or ID card, or will the govt provide a list of individuals that information is requested on?
ANSWER: YES, the government would like information on every individual.
2. How will the information be delivered to the govt, would it be given in a spreadsheet, will it be in a searchable database?
ANSWER: The data will be transferred to the U.S. Census Bureau via a Managed File Transfer (MFT).
3. If no GSA schedule but have SBA 8a SDB, would you allow the company to submit the
RFI and eventually allow to bid?
ANSWER: YES.
4. Requested data is very sensitive information, no company will not have this data due to Privacy Act + other laws. With that said, does USCB has any agreement with DMV’s of all States, DC, Islands, Puerto Rico?
ANSWER: The government expect the vendor to develop all necessary agreements with data providers to obtain the data.
a. If no, given the information is sensitive, can USCB get into an agreement for data services/calls with DMV’s of respective states prior to start of this data collection?
ANSWER: No, the Census Bureau expects the vendor to have permissions to acquire the data.
b. If USCB has legal agreement for data calls/services, any company can help in getting the data into USCB chosen repository, is this something USCB planning to do?
ANSWER: No
5. When you are asking for sample of Driver License Data and State Issued ID data, can you qualify sample?
ANSWER: As part of the Request for Proposal (RFP), the Census Bureau will request offerors to submit a sample of the data for evaluation. The specific requirements for the sample data will be included in the RFP. Some examples of the sample data requirements may include, but not limited to, current year and historical data files for specific geographic locations and data elements.
6. Is the data is one time extract or do you need this to be on-going process to pull periodically?
ANSWER: The contractor shall provide the Census Bureau with updates to the current data files provided.
7. The allocated $995,000 is for one time historical and for sample only?
ANSWER: NO. This is an Estimated value for the requirement.
8. How do you want the data to be housed in your agency? do you have repository/database of choice in place or need to procure? If needs to procure and the underlying tech stake to support this, do you have additional budget for this a set-aside?
Answer: The data will be transferred to the U.S. Census Bureau via a Managed File Transfer (MFT). The data repository and/or database is not part of this acquisition
– the Census Bureau has all databases and repositories in-place.
9. How does USCB want to access the data that is scrubbed and housed in a repository?
Answer: The data will be transferred to the U.S. Census Bureau via a Managed File Transfer (MFT).
10. Do you entertained new vendors, or it has to be through a Prime Vendor?
Answer: All Small Business vendors are welcome to submit in accordance with this Source Sought Notice.
11. Is there a list of current Prime Vendors that I can have to partner with?
Answer: This is a new requirement, there are no prime vendors associated with this requirement.
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