Solution for Fingerprint Processing

Request for Information/Sources Sought Notice: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) is seeking an existing commercial solution that meets the following minimum requirements. Interested contractors meeting these requirements must provide literature about commercial products, industry trends, product availability, business practices, product/service reliability, prices and information about government contracts that offer such solution(s). Interested contractors must send the requested information to Robert_Grinstead@ao.uscourts.gov by December 3. 2018 (9AM est). The draft requirements includes:

- A single and cost-effective agency standard to electronically take, centrally store and transmit fingerprints to FBI and NBIB

- Ability to create digital fingerprints, which can be processed against:

o Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) through a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)

o National Background Investigation Branch (NBIB)

- Ability to print the fingerprint card from system

- A solution that enables the users to electronically transmit to the central storage and then onto the outside agency (FBI or NBIB)

- A solution that is certified by FBI for both Civil and Criminal fingerprints

- This system is installed in approximately 225 locations, which send electronic fingerprints to the central system for submission to the FBI

- Printed fingerprints that are mailed in can be digitized and submitted for review through the solution

- Capture the personal data of the individual being fingerprinted by either:

o allowing an individual to scan an appropriate identification cards (e.g., driver's license, national smart card) into the system; and/or

o by manually entering the information into the system.

- Scan and capture forensic quality digital fingerprints that can be:

o saved along with personal data to an electronic file; and/or

o used to generate and print a fingerprint card to a FBI-certified printer.

- Display digital fingerprint images and read and/or modify personal data stored in an electronic file that was created by fingerprint machines currently in use by the United States (U.S.) Marshals (Cross Match ID 1000 series) and the U.S. Courts (Cross Match ID 500 and 1500 series).

- Be compatible with the following communication protocols used by the Federal Judiciary: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) - the Federal Judiciary use Microsoft Outlook as its electronic mail package.

- Enable that no data should reside on the local machine but will be transmitted to the central repository.

- Enable transport-level encryption (SSL/TLS/STARTTLS) to protect all sensitive communications passing between the client and the server.

- Restrict incoming SMTP traffic to only the IP addresses of the fingerprint hardware.

- The hardware and application software shall comply with Federal Judiciary application security and data security policies.

- Shall utilize existing Federal Judiciary equipment that meet the vendor's standards.

- Be compatible with the Federal Judiciary's Data Communication Network architecture.

- Be compatible with Windows 7, Windows 10 and above for client machines and Windows 2012, 2016 Server R2 and above for Store N Forward central virtual machines.

- Purchased equipment should weigh no more than 20 pounds total.

- Be compatible with accessories such as a digital signature pad and digital camera.

- Produce an interface file whose format is compatible with and accepted by the IAFIS.

- Produce an interface file that can be read by Department of Justices' Civil Applicant System (CAS).

- Produce an interface file whose format is compatible with being read and accepted by Federal Investigative Services (FIS).

- Provide electronic verification capability that can validate if a captured digital fingerprint is within acceptable clarity ranges for a fingerprint check.

- Shall be able to centrally push application, patches and software upgrades to the client machines.

- Incorporate various technologies to simplify the use of the equipment such as context-sensitive help; functions keys, buttons, or switches that simplify a multiple step process into one step.

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