NTIA ASL Datasets

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration seeks to award an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity blanket purchase agreement to create a large American Sign Language video dataset. Interested parties must submit capability statements by July 15th demonstrating experience collecting and annotating similar datasets, along with technical expertise in areas such as videography, linguistic annotation, data processing, and project management. The statement of work outlines requirements for ASL data collection and annotation to develop high-quality training datasets, including obtaining permission to redistribute the dataset and assisting with experimental design, video editing, and pre-testing the dataset with ASL-proficient subjects.

There is no set-aside designated for this procurement. The NAICS code is 541715 and PSC code is R425. The budget for the one-year contract is unspecified but will include delivering a completed ASL dataset, along with co-authoring a paper describing and analyzing the dataset. At least 24 ASL-proficient subjects must rate samples of the edited footage. Interested parties should have experience creating large annotated video datasets for machine learning applications.