Request for Information (RFI): Intelligence Community (IC) Data Co-op (ICDC)

UPDATE: Amendement 1 of RFI 24-07 is attached and the update includes an updated contact number for the Sponsoring Officers in the attached PDF, and in the contact information section. All other content of the RFI remains unchanged.

(U) The Sponsor seeks to leverage a data co-op model to reduce the aggregate cost of Commercially Available Information (CAI) and Publicly Available Information (PAI) and accelerate and improve the IC’s acquisition of and access to CAI and PAI, while providing quality data management and maintaining adherence to legal and policy requirements for the acquisition and handling of that data.

(U) A new CAI/PAI data acquisition approach is needed for the IC to overcome the acquisition and technical limitations of the current model’s rigid and siloed approach.

(U) The Sponsor seeks an approach based on a repeatable data management[1] plus civil liberties and privacy best practices to help integrate CAI/PAI data for the entire IC and make it available to the mission users in a more cohesive and effective manner by avoiding duplicative purchases and reducing the overall cost of acquiring, processing (including extracting, loading, transforming, structuring, and cleaning), enriching, and sharing the data.

The Sponsor seeks an enterprise approach to integrate information from commercial datasets and publicly available information by establishing a government-funded data co-op, which will serve as a clearinghouse for IC data requirements, a single focal point in negotiations with vendors, a compliance vehicle to ensure the IC’s use of the data complies with owners’ terms and conditions, and a mechanism to pool agency funds to gain access to targeted commercial data sets.

(U) This is an RFI issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation or authority to enter negotiations. Respondents are advised that the Sponsor is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information or to provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted under this RFI. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding procurement instrument.

Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. The Sponsor will not provide reimbursement for costs incurred in responding to this RFI. It is the respondent's responsibility to ensure that the submitted material has been approved for public release by the information owner.

The Government does not intend to award a procurement instrument on the basis of this RFI or to otherwise pay for the information solicited, nor is the Government obligated to issue a solicitation based on responses received. No classified concepts or information shall be included in the submittal. Any proprietary information shall be marked accordingly.

Input on technical aspects of the responses may be solicited by the Sponsor from non-Government consultants/experts who are bound by appropriate non-disclosure requirements. (U) Submittal of White Paper(s) responses due by 09/10/2024. White Papers shall address capabilities that may scale to support complex data requirements. Respondents shall submit the White Paper electronically to dni-iarpa-rfi-24-07@iarpa.gov See White Paper Submission Instructions section for more details. Responses to this RFI are due no later than 12:00pm Eastern Time, September 10, 2024. Please see the attachment for more specific details.