This is a request for information for electronic fingerprints

This is a Request for Information (RFI). This RFI is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the General Services Administration (GSA). GSA is currently conducting market research to locate qualified, experienced, and interested potential Contractors. Responses will not be considered as proposals, nor will any award be incurred by interested parties in responding to this RFI announcement. 
 

GSA is issuing this RFI to ascertain the market availability of current solutions that can provide end-to-end management and technical services for GSA to use electronic fingerprints to process background investigations for contractors to support GSA.  The objectives of this RFI are to:

•·         Explore the technical solutions available in the marketplace to securely, rapidly, reliably, and efficiently capture and transmit electronic fingerprints for contractors supporting GSA;

•·         Explore the management capabilities, including but not limited to quality control and reporting, available in the marketplace to operate the technical solutions to securely, rapidly, reliably, and efficiently capture and transmit electronic fingerprints for contractors supporting GSA;

•·         Explore providers' scalability and availability of service centers to electronically capture fingerprints from applicant and current contractors who support GSA, are widely dispersed across the continental United States (US) and US territories, and are in areas that are sparsely populated;

•·         Explore providers' experience in providing end-to-end management and technical services to use electronic fingerprints to process background investigations

•·         Explore providers' available options for payment for services;

•·         Assess government and private industry capabilities, including those of small businesses, to meet the Department's requirement; and

•·         Allow vendors an opportunity to respond to questions in this RFI to assist GSA in determining the appropriate acquisition strategy.