JA24-109 Dataminr_redacted 09.19.2024.pdf

JA24-109 Dataminr First Alert Software Licenses for

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(1) Minimum Government requirements.

(a) A web-based incident detection solution to analyze and mitigate high-impact global events and risks that can be accessed via personal computer.

(b) Algorithms with increasing alert speed and accuracy rates which provides a signal-to-noise ratio that results in only the alerts of interest being delivered.

(c) Utilization of AI methods such as statistical event modeling, deep learning, and machine learning for anomaly detection.

(d) Capability to tailor alerts by location, priority level, topic, and national security concerns.

(e) Ability to use Twitter as a source for providing event detection designed for the public sector.

(f) Ability to pull publicly available information from multiple sources, including

Twitter, Reddit, dark web, IoT sensor data, and audio transmissions, and in multiple formats, such as text, images, videos, audio, and public IoT sensor data;

evaluate content to detect emerging events as they are developing and push alerts to users based on user-defined criteria.

(g) Capability to distribute alerts/notifications in near real-time or real-time via email, web-based application, and/or mobile platforms.

(h) Provide user support, training, and enablement services for deployment and adoption of the product’s full range of capabilities.

(i) Allows alerts for events such as criminal activity, and airplane transponder signals (ADS-B Signals). These inputs include data from radar, ground, and space-based ADS-B receiving stations (latitude and longitude, airplane identification, vertical and horizontal speed) and ICAO flight plans containing origination, route, planned destination, etc.

(j) Use AI to detect anomalies in the time-series data ranging from a plane that diverts from its scheduled route to a plane exhibiting sharp and unexpected shifts in altitude or course.

(2) Proposed sole source contractor.

(a) Dataminr, Inc.

Dataminr, Inc. First Alert V2 software and support is proprietary and is available from only the existing OEM. OEMs for applicable software support do not authorize any third-party software modifications or patches to their software.

Existing product OEMs own the copyrighted source software, with all legal rights, privileges, and ownership contained therein. No other source may legally modify or change the software, nor would they have access to the source code to do so, due to copyright and patent law protections.

The Dataminr, Inc. First Alert V2 software includes audience segmentation, incident & reputation management, configurable alerts, and analytics as part of its software system. Unique only to the Dataminr, Inc.’s First Alert V2 software and

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Dataminr, Inc. has a proven and widely used capability to provide Natural Language Generation techniques to generate a textual description that summarizes an event as an alert. This provides an easily readable and understandable summary of the anomaly. This description is written automatically by Dataminr, Inc.’s AI platform in a matter of milli-seconds — leveraging the known features extracted from the signal and converting these features into text phrases that are stitched together into a cohesive human-understandable sentence.

10. LISTING OF INTERESTED SOURCES:

Based on the results of the above research, the following sources were identified:

Contractor Name Business Category Vehicle Type

Dataminr, Inc. Other than small Open Market

11. ACTIONS THE AGENCY MAY TAKE TO REMOVE OR OVERCOME BARRIERS

THAT LED TO THE EXCEPTION TO FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION:

(a) Procurement History.

Contract Number: HC104723C0009 Competitive Status: Sole Source Period of Performance:

Base Year 22 September 2023 – 21 September 2024 Option Year 1 22 September 2024 – 21 September 2025 Option Year 2 22 September 2025 – 21 September 2026 Option Year 3 22 September 2026 – 21 September 2027

Contract Number: HC104722C0013 Competitive Status: Sole Source Period of Performance: 22 September 2022 – 21 September 2023

Contract Number: FA701421C0024 Competitive Status: Total Small Business Set-Aside Period of Performance:

Base Year 26 June 2021 – 25 June 2022 Option Year 1 26 June 2022 – 25 June 2023 Option Year 2 26 June 2023 – 25 June 2024 Option Year 3 26 June 2024 – 25 June 2025 Option Year 4 26 June 2025 – 25 June 2026

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(b) Only the aforementioned brand-name product and/or product support, Dataminr, Inc. First Alert V2 software licenses, can fully support the Government’s need. No competitor functional replacement products exist in the market at this time to meet the Government's need.

If the OEM elects to surrender their legal ownership, copyright, and/or intellectual property software rights and move toward providing an open-source solution for the products being renewed under individual procurements, then DISA will seek open competition. Regardless, the Government will continue to search the marketplace, and alternative software solutions will continually be researched to determine if alternative solutions exist. If the Government should determine that the previously acquired brand name products are no longer required, the Government will seek a competitive acquisition approach for the required functionality.

Furthermore, as this procurement provides supplemental licenses to non-DoD civilian personnel, should the Enterprise License under contract FA701421C0024 be recompeted at the end of its Period of Performance, the Government will seek a competitive acquisition approach for the required functionality. At that point, every effort will be made to provide for competition to the maximum extent practicable, based on new technologies that will support mission partner needs.