1/8/2025 - Amendment 3

The purpose of this amendment is to extend the RFI submission due date to Friday, January 17, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET.  All submissions shall be emailed to Amy.Driver@hq.dhs.gov and Sasha.May@hq.dhs.gov.  Submissions not sent to both email addresses risk not being reviewed.

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12/13/2024 - Amendment 2

The purpose of this amendment is to provide Government responses to vendor questions.  Government responses to Q&A are located in the Attachments section of this RFI.  Submissions related to this RFI will be accepted through Friday, January 10, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET.  Submissions shall be emailed to Amy.Driver@hq.dhs.gov and Sasha.May@hq.dhs.gov.  Submissions not sent to both email addresses risk not being reviewed.

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11/26/2024 - Amendment 1

The purpose of this amendment is to clarify that questions will be accepted through Friday, December 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET.  Questions shall be submitted to Amy.Driver@hq.dhs.gov and Sasha.May@hq.dhs.gov.  Responses will be provided in a subsequent amendment to this RFI.

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11/21/2024 - Request for Information (RFI)

Latent Fingerprint System

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Nonetheless, submitters should properly mark their responses if the information is confidential or proprietary. Furthermore, those who respond to this RFI should not anticipate feedback with regards to its submission other than acknowledgment of receipt, should the submitter request an acknowledgement. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. All submissions become the property of the Federal Government and will not be returned. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future solicitation.

The information provided in this RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. All submissions become the property of the Government and will not be returned. Responses to the RFI may be used to develop Government documentation.

Responses to this RFI may be reviewed by Government technical experts drawn from Federal employees and Contractor subject matter experts (SMEs) supporting the effort.

1. INTRODUCTION

The Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) provides biometric match, store, share, and analyze services to DHS and mission partners. The need for biometrics continues to grow among DHS Components; interagency stakeholders (e.g., the Departments of State, Justice, and Defense); State, local, tribal, and territorial entities; the Intelligence Community; and international mission partners. Biometrics support critical national security priorities, including counterterrorism and immigration. OBIM is focused on delivering accurate, timely, and high assurance biometric identity information and analysis. OBIM’s overall goals and priorities include continuing to improve biometric services and access to expanded biometric data to enable DHS operational missions.

A subcomponent of OBIM’s Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) is the latent print system.  The latent print system is used to secure our nation and solve crimes by vetting latent prints from various agencies against the over 300 million fingerprint identities contained in IDENT.    

1. PURPOSE OF RFI

The purpose of this RFI is to gather information, from relevant industry sources, regarding an AWS cloud based latent fingerprint solution that addresses the criteria below.  All costs should be included, including costs to migrate to the proposed solution (licensing, compute, labor, installation/migration of existing files etc.) as well as annual maintenance costs.  AWS compute for the solution and its related costs should be selected in the AWS GovCloud West Region in a single availability zone with the option to scale to additional availability zones for high availability. 

Support latent print searches of known fingerprint holdings that are comprised of two galleries.

• One gallery consists of approximately 30 million identities containing approximately one million 2-print records and 19 million ten print records.  Gallery will have both rolled and flat prints for the same individual if available.  Projected annual growth is approxi