Biometric Procurement and Sustainment (BPS)
Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- W909MY25RA002
- Agency
-
ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army Contracting Command, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- PSC
- Not on record
- Place of performance
- Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground is conducting market research through a Request for Information (RFI) to identify potential contractors capable of procuring, fielding, and sustaining Biometric Collection Capability (BCC) systems. The procurement encompasses comprehensive support across seven primary task areas: program management, system procurement and fielding for commercial and government off-the-shelf hardware and software (including BAT-A, NRTIO, and NXGBCC biometric collection systems), system sustainment with operational field support and logistics, software engineering services, cloud services utilizing Amazon GovCloud infrastructure, help desk services with tiered support capabilities, and cybersecurity services including Authority to Operate documentation and Risk Management Framework compliance. Qualified contractors must demonstrate experience with Army or Department of Defense programs, possess or be able to obtain appropriate security clearances at the Secret level, maintain DCAA-approved accounting systems, and provide personnel available within 60 calendar days of award. The Government will use contractor capability statements and responses to a detailed 17-question technical questionnaire to evaluate market sources and refine acquisition strategy and performance-based specifications. Interested parties must submit a Capability Statement in Adobe PDF format (ten pages or less) and complete responses to the attached questions by 5 p.m. EDT on April 22, 2026, to the Contracting Officer Rosetta Wisdom-Russell and Contracts Specialist Keane Sablon.
This RFI does not contain a set-aside designation and remains open to all contractor categories, including small businesses, veteran-owned businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, HUB Zone small businesses, and woman-owned small businesses. No incumbent contractor or current award value has been identified in the pre-solicitation materials. The anticipated contract, numbered W909MY25RA002, will operate over a 60-month period of performance consisting of one 12-month base period and four 12-month option periods, with performance locations across CONUS contractor facilities and OCONUS locations spanning AFRICOM, CENTCOM, EUCOM, INDOPACOM, NORTHCOM, and SOUTHCOM. The Government will require 15 labor categories with specific experience levels, ranging from a Senior Program Manager requiring 15 years of program/project management experience and DAWIA Advanced Level certification to specialized technical positions such as a Senior Software Engineer (3,840 hours) with seven years of biometric systems software engineering experience and a Senior Systems Engineer with expertise in biometric systems integration. All costs associated with responding to this RFI are the sole responsibility of respondents, and all submissions will be retained by the Government and protected as business sensitive information.
Notice text
1.0 Purpose
This Request for Information (RFI) is a means for conducting market research to generate interest within industry and increase competition, identify potential sources with requisite capabilities, and refine the Government’s pre-award documentation. This RFI is solely for information and planning purposes and does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service. The Government is not seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals at this time. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluation will be provided. The Government will retain all responses, which will be protected as business sensitive and will not be released outside of the Government and the Government’s program support contractor(s). The information provided may be used by the Government in developing its Acquisition Strategy, Performance Based Specifications, and/or related Acquisition Requirement documentation. Respondents are advised that the Government will not pay for any information provided, or administrative costs incurred, in response to this RFI. All costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the Respondent’s expense. Defense and commercial contractors, including small businesses, veteran-owned businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, HUB Zone small businesses, and woman-owned small businesses are encouraged to participate. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future Request for Proposal(s) (RFP), if any is issued. It is the responsibility of the potential offerors to monitor for additional information pertaining to any future requirement.
2.0 Description
Product Manager (PM) Biometrics is conducting market research to identify potential sources that possess the capability to procure, field, and sustain Biometric Collection Capability (BCC) systems in accordance with the attached Draft PWS. The scope includes program management, system procurement (hardware and software) and fielding, sustainment, software engineering services, cloud services, help desk services, and cybersecurity services. BCC systems include Biometrics Automated Toolset-Army (BAT-A), Near Real Time Identity Operations (NRTIO), and Next Generation Biometrics Collection Capability (NXGBCC).
3.0 Background
PM Biometrics under Project Manager Terrestrial Sensors (PM TS), Capability Portfolio Executive for Intelligence and Spectrum Warfare (CPE ISW) acquires, deploys, and sustains biometric collection solutions in multiple operating environments enabling identity dominance on the battlefield and across the Department of War (DoW). PM Biometrics’ information technology (IT) systems capture, transmit, store, manage, share, retrieve, and display biometric data for timely identification or identity verification. These systems are mission enablers for
force protection, intelligence, physical and logical access control, identity
management/credentialing, detention, and interception operations. PM Biometrics provides
biometrics support to various operations, including detainee operations, and post-Improvised
Explosive Device (IED) incident exploitation, intelligence operations, presence operations, local
population control, seizure operations, and base access control.
4.0 Requested Information
Interested parties are required to respond to this RFI with a Capability Statement in Adobe PDF
format that demonstrates their firm’s capability to support the Draft PWS. Please limit responses
to ten (10) pages or less. Capability Statements shall address the following:
a. Company name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, Cage Code,
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), business size, and socioeconomic category.
b. Tailored Capability Statement addressing the particulars of this effort to include up to
three (3) relevant projects with the following information:
1. Customer Name
2. Customer/Client POC Email
3. Total Contract Value
4. Period of Performance
5. Brief Description of Services Provided
6. Indicate if there is a Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System
(CPARS) available
Further, respondents are required to answer questions provided in Attachment 0002.
Respondents should minimize proprietary information and if any, be sure it is clearly marked and
segregated. Be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be
returned.
The deadline for responses to this request are due no later than 5 pm, EDT, 22 April 2026. All
responses must be e-mailed to the Contracting Officer, Rosetta Wisdom-Russell, rosetta.wisdomrussell.
civ@army.mil and Contracts Specialist, Keane Sablon, keane.s.sablon.civ@army.mil.
Telephonic inquiries will not be accepted.
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