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SAMDAILY.US - ISSUE OF JULY 31, 2022 SAM #7548
SPECIAL NOTICE

Q -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Examiner Feature Extraction and Matching of Latent and Exemplar Fingerprints V

Notice Date

7/29/2022 8:36:18 AM
 

Notice Type

Special Notice
 

NAICS

541380 — Testing Laboratories
 

Contracting Office

DEPT OF COMMERCE NIST GAITHERSBURG MD 20899 USA
 

ZIP Code

20899
 

Solicitation Number

NIST-AMD-NOISS-P-22-01986
 

Response Due

8/5/2022 8:59:00 PM
 

Point of Contact

Monica Brown, Phone: 3019750642
 

E-Mail Address

monica.brown@nist.gov
(monica.brown@nist.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

SBA Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
 

Description

Notice of Intent � Sole Source The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Information Technology Laboratory/Information Access Division/Image Group has a need for contractual support for matching latent friction ridge images with exemplar images by means of extracting and correlating friction ridge features. As part of the Intelligence Advance Research Project Activity (IARPA)�s Nail?to?Nail (N2N) Challenge, NIST acquired thousands of latent and exemplar friction ridge images. In turn, NIST released a portion of this data as an open dataset entitled �NIST Special Database 302.� In its current state, the data is only minimally useful to researchers. At a basic level, it is known that a latent friction ridge image came from a particular individual, but not which finger or palm from that individual. �NIST is seeking services to accurately match latent friction ridge images with exemplar images by means of extracting and correlating friction ridge features on a sole source basis to Schwarz Forensic Enterprises (SFE), Inc., Winterset, Iowa 50273, under the authority of FAR Subpart 13.106-1(b), Soliciting from a Single Source.� The objectives of this requirement are: Extract minutia and other friction ridge features required by Extended Feature Set (EFS) Profile 2 from latent and exemplar friction ridge images. �Use extracted features to find correspondence, matching a subject�s latent friction ridge images to their exemplar fingerprint images. Record extracted feature and correspondence information in ANSI/NIST?ITL 1?2011 Update: 2015 compatible Latent Friction Ridge Feature Search with image file (LFFS and COMP respectively) for future research. SFE is the sole responsible source capable of performing the tasks outlined in the statement of work for the reasons detailed below: �NIST was a co-investigator in the IARPA Nail to Nail (N2N) Challenge. The N2N Challenge was overseen by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) because it involved human subjects. The IRB for this Challenge approved the N2N Challenge with SFE as the source of the latent biometric data. �SFE was the only approved source of biometric data listed in the IRB research protocol for the N2N Challenge. As SFE is the only source of the required data and the only source with IRB approval for the N2N Challenge, only SFE is capable of meeting the needs of this requirement. �SFE is the only entity with access to the physical items that were the source of the digitized latent fingerprints to be analyzed for this requirement. These items are the property of SFE, not NIST.� �Physical access allows SFE to re-inspect and re-image physical objects as necessary to ensure that proper correspondence is recorded, leaving little question when determining source finger positions. No other source has access to these materials. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above shall clearly identify their capability to do so in writing on or before August 5, 2022 at 11:59 pm Eastern time. �This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Information submitted in response to this notice will be used solely to determine whether competitive procedures could be used for this acquisition. All inquiries regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to monica.brown@nist.gov.
 

Web Link

SAM.gov Permalink
(https://sam.gov/opp/ac8151b4c035499a8a9b046ae9502285/view)
 

Place of Performance

Address: MD 20899, USA

Zip Code: 20899

Country: USA
 

Record

SN06407196-F 20220731/220729230114 (samdaily.us)
 

Source

SAM.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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