ODIN III RFI_03_27.pdf

UNCLASSIFIED

RFI-ODIN lll

Operations, Development and Innovation (ODIN lll)

Request for Information (RFI)

27 March 2025

RFI-ODIN III

1 Description & Purpose

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) GeoCapabilities Division (TEGG) is seeking information on how an interested and qualified contractor could provide technical expertise to enable and expand open-source capabilities to support mission requirements in the following areas:

GEOINT Processing and Dissemination, Foreign Partner Sharing, Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Response, Law Enforcement Support and GEOINT AI development and deployment.

Operations, Development, and Innovation (ODIN) II currently houses the following capabilities:

Open Street Map (OSM), Mage, MapCache, Marlin, QGIS, and Ronin. ODIN II provides core services that facilitate access to GEOINT data and products in an on-line, on-demand, and geospatially relevant environment to the NSG, ASG, and other Federal Government agencies.

Please reference attached product slick sheets for additional information.

The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit information from Industry on the availability of qualified vendors who can meet or exceed the items discussed in this RFI. Interested vendors choosing to respond to this RFI must submit sufficient documentation to demonstrate their ability to meet the minimum of what is discussed in this RFI. Responses will be used to determine the feasibility of the requirements, market capabilities in meeting these requirements, and may assist in developing the Government’s acquisition strategy.

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This 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. This RFI does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, NGA is not at this time seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals. Responders are advised that the U.S. Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this RFI. All costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested party’s expense. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if any is issued.

2 Period of Performance (PoP)

The anticipated PoP is one (1) base period of 12 months and four (4) 12-month option periods, and a sixmonth option period. The anticipated start date is 3/26/2026.

3 Location(s)

The bulk of the work performed under this contract shall be at the contractor’s facility.

Secondary place of performance may include NGA designated facilities such as NGA Washington, NGA St. Louis, NGA Arnold, NGA Denver, customer sites upon government direction, and alternate work locations (telework) upon government direction.

(U) NGA will not provide office space or dedicated computer resources for staff assigned to any non-NGA place of performance.

4 Security Requirements

• Prime Contractor must have an active Top-Secret Facility Clearance to perform this work.

• All Key Personnel will be required to have TS/SCI clearances.

• Contractor personnel performing classified work are required to have active Top Secret

Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearances for access to NGA facilities, when performing duties within classified environments, and for access to classified NGA computer systems.

• Contractors must abide by the DD Form 254 - Contract Security Classification

Specification, and applicable security policies and regulations.

• Contractor personnel are subject to a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI/Poly) and/or

Security Financial Disclosure Program, as requested by the Government.

• NGA Badge and Common Access Cards (CAC) are required for all program personnel.

5 Organizational Conflict of Interest:

This acquisition is for the development and sustainment of Government-Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) and Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) opensource capabilities. In accordance with FAR Part 9.5, interested contractors should discuss any performance, which may lead to an organizational conflict of interest and how the contractor would mitigate, avoid, or neutralize the conflict.

6 Requested Information

Responses must contain unclassified information only. No classified information should be included in your response. Responses should contain, to the greatest extend possible, little to no proprietary information. Proprietary information must be clearly marked.

Respondent RFI input contained in responses may be reviewed by NGA non-Government consultants / experts who are bound by appropriate non-disclosure agreements.

6.1 Capabilities

It is anticipated that this work will primarily fall under code 541511 (Custom Computer

Programming Services).

Provide a description of the responder’s capabilities to meet the stated purpose set forth in this

RFI:

a. Capabilities that the responder currently possesses which clearly demonstrate the ability to meet the items outlined in this RFI. Responses should include the relevant information regarding specific skills, experience, expertise, number of cleared employees, facilities, corporate reach back and/or capabilities, hardware, software, and/or communications infrastructure that it currently possesses.

b. Service capabilities that the responder currently does not possess in order to meet the the items discussed in this RFI, to include needed specific skills, experience, clearances, facilities, hardware, software, and/or communications infrastructure.

c. Systems and cybersecurity capabilities and plans that demonstrate the ability to meet

NGA’s personnel and application security requirements beginning at contract award and throughout the PoP.

d. The extent to which the responder is aware of any potential OCI issues in accordance with FAR Part 9.5 or any non-mitigatable OCI related to current development work at

NGA.

6.2 Questions for Industry

Please address each of the following questions.

a. Responder must describe experience with existing commercially provided and GOTs developed opensource products to include OpenStreetMap (OSM), MAGE, Marlin, MapCache, QGIS and Ronin. Please ensure all past work experience with these products is documented in response.

b. Please provide an active DoD/IC contract name and max number of TS/SCI cleared personnel on that contract along with contract value.

c. What currently available opensource capabilities would the responder recommend to help in enhancing and enabling NGA’s GEOINT Mission?

d. Responders must describe their experience with GEOINT technologies and products and provide the varying libraries (i.e. Python, Angular, etc.) used to generate these products?

e. Describe your experience and expertise in regard to mobile application development

(Android, iOS, etc).Has the responder directly contributed code to open-source projects relevant to DoD or IC applications? What were your key takeaways and lessons learned?

f. What are the primary benefits, potential risks and risk mitigations associated with using open-source software in the DoD/IC environment?

g. Describe responder ability to access and leverage sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIF)?

7 Responses

Interested parties are directed to respond to this RFI with a white paper.

White papers shall be in Microsoft Word for Office or compatible format and shall not exceed ten

(7) pages (not including a cover page). A page is defined as each face of an 8½” x 11” sheet with information contained within a one-inch margin on all sides. Font type shall be set at Times Roman

11 point.

Responses must contain unclassified information only. Classified information must not be included in your response.

Respondent RFI input contained in responses may be reviewed by NGA non-Government consultants / experts who are bound by appropriate non-disclosure agreements.

A complete submission consists of a white paper in contractor’s commercial format and answers to the ODIN III RFI Response Template. Responses are due to Richard.c.petty@nga.mil and

Bradley.R.Austin@nga.mil no later than 4:00 PM EST on 30 April 2025, and shall be submitted via e-mail =with the message subject line “ODIN III RFI Response - [Insert Business name]”.

NO CLASSIFIED material or information shall be submitted in response to this RFI. If a respondent believes it is necessary to submit classified information as part of its RFI response, the respondent may contact the Contracting Officer via email at NEED EMAIL HERE.

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.

7.1.1 QUESTIONS

Questions regarding this RFI should be submitted via the “ODIN_III_RFI_Response_Template” document.. The Government will attempt to provide a response to all questions.

Questions regarding this RFI should be submitted via e-mail to no later than 12:00 PM EDT on 11

April 2025.

7.1.2 MEETINGS AND DISCUSSION

(U) The Government representatives may or may not choose to meet with RFI respondents. Such meetings and discussions would only be intended to gain further clarification of potential capability or development and sustainment risks.

mailto:Richard.c.petty@nga.mil

8 ATTACHMENTS

Document Name Description

ODIN III _RFI_Response_Template.xlsx Blank RFI Response Template

ODIN II Product Slick Sheets OSM, Mage, MapCache, Marlin,and

Ronin product descriptions. NGA will attempt to amend RFI to add the QGIS slicksheet in April 2025.