Global Database Containing Street / Ground Transportation Data

Sources Sought Description: This announcement is not a request for proposal or quote and no award will be made from this announcement. It is a market research tool only.

1. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is issuing this sources sought notification as part of its market research analysis to obtain a better understanding of the availability of a global database containing street/ ground transportation data, telecommunications data, public venue data, land use data, hydrography data and points of interest.



2. General Requirements: The following are the general requirements for this data as known today, but subject to further refinement or change. Interested parties should submit information on existing capabilities, planned near-term capabilities and any aspects that are recommended for consideration by this agency in developing requirements. Responses are limited to: Part 1, a summary for each requirement (a. ? m.) in order of presentation listed below, and, Part 2, additional information, general comments and recommendations on the agency?s plan. Overall response should be no more than twenty pages.



a. Coverage over North America: A database encompassing all 50 States, District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico, and the following US territories and possessions: Guam, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa.



b. Global, medium scale coverage of data that would include no less than 170 countries; Detailed, large scale coverage that would include no less than 65 countries.



c. Turn by turn, GPS navigational functionality with a road network that includes key street and related ground transportation layers, telecommunications layers, public venue layers, land use layers, and hydrography layers.



d. Detailed data set should include Points of Interests (POI's) and addressing.



e. All data shall be based on WGS84.



f. All data shall meet the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata standard. Refer to the FGDC Meta Standard at (www.fgdc.gov). This includes the complete and accurate population of all required fields listed under the primary metadata categories of Identification, Data Quality, Spatial Data Organization, Spatial Reference Information, Entity & Attribute Information, Distribution Information, Metadata Reference History, and Geoprocessing History



g. Provider should have flexibility in providing data in multiple contents to include spatial database output.



h. Data should be based from a well documented set of standards that are minimally updated or adjusted.



i. Transportation data should adhere to a better than +/- 15 meter accuracy standard for large scale coverage. For medium scale coverage, data shall adhere to a better than

+/- 50 meter accuracy standard.



j. Address flexibilities on licensing. NGA desires Title 10/50 availability to US Government; Exploration of Quadripartite Countries (defined here as United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia) Data Release, US Government coalition partner release, declared national emergency or crisis, non-Federal governmental disaster/emergency response agencies and/or personnel supporting the homeland security mission release.



k. Updates to all existing Countries to also include any new Country data or expansion of the database. Address frequency and coverage of updates and plans for expansion of the database.



l. Address availability and access for raw full motion source imagery.



m. Address capability to ingest NGA high density data and convert into turn-by- turn GPS navigational data.



3. Information Submission: If you are interested and/or can share current information about your ability to support this database requirement, please respond to the individual identified in this announcement no later than 04 APRIL 2008 with the following information along with responses to 2a. ? m., above:



a. Your Central Contractor Registration (CCR) information

b. Your GSA Schedule information (if applicable).

c. Current Government contracts for this data. If applicable please provide a listing that includes: Contract Number, Contracting Officer name, email address and phone number along with a brief description of data being provided.

d. Technical and Contracting points of contact, name, email address and phone number.