SIMS RFI Questions 5.26.2026.pdf
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This is a Request for Information (RFI) document for Secure Identity Management Support issued by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
The RFI seeks information regarding company capabilities and experience across multiple specialized domains related to identity and biometric management. Key areas of inquiry include: (1) technical and operational expertise in secure identity management operations, maintenance, and modernization in testing and operational environments; (2) experience with identification, authentication, and validation of biometric methodologies for government enrollment, vetting, and credentialing systems; (3) expertise with various biometric modalities including fingerprint image and minutiae data, facial recognition, iris imaging, vascular imaging, hand geometry, voice, and DNA data; (4) experience with FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) Rap Back services and XML-formatted specifications; and (5) familiarity with identity and biometric federal databases including DHS's Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) and Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART), as well as international databases.
The RFI additionally requests information on subject matter expert experience with standards organizations and specifications impacting TSA operations, including ANSI, NIST, INCITS, ISO (particularly SC 37 Standards), ICAO, FISWG, FBI EBTS Version 10, CHIEF, IXM, and PIV Standards. The document also solicits information regarding expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel programming including VBA, VBScript, and SQL, as well as company experience with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications related to vetting process modernization and enhanced adjudication tools and techniques. No response deadline, award date, or pricing information is provided in this document.
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Secure Identity Management Support
Requestion for Information Questions
1. What is your company’s experience in providing technical and operational expertise with respect to secure identity management operations, maintenance, and modernization in testing and operational environments?
2. What is your company’s experience in providing technical and operational expertise with respect to identification, authentication, and validation of biometric methodologies for use within government enrollment, vetting, and credentialing systems?
3. What is your company’s experience with identity verification, including utilization of fingerprint image data, fingerprint minutiae data, facial image data, iris image data, vascular image data, hand geometry silhouette data, voice data, DNA data, and other biometric modalities?
4. What is your company’s experience with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Next Generation Identification (NGI) Rap Back services? What is your Subject Matter Expert (SME) experience with Extensible Markup Language (XML) formatted rap sheets, specifications and standards?
5. What is your company’s experience with identity and biometrically centered federal databases and systems, to include DHS’s Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) and others? International Databases?
8. Which of the following Standards Organizations & specifications that impact TSA Operations do you have SME experience with?
• The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• The International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
• International Standards Organization (ISO), to include SC 37 Standards
• The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• The Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG)
• FBI Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS) Version 10, to include Appendix F
• Criminal History Information Exchange Format (CHIEF)
• Exchange Message Specification (IXM)
• Personal Identification Verification (PIV) Standard
10. What is your company’s experience with expert level Microsoft Excel Programming; to include Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), VBScript (VBS), and Structured Query Language
(SQL)?
11. What is your company’s experience with Machine Learning (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models) as it relates to the modernization of vetting processes and the use of enhanced adjudication tools and techniques?
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