U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover Building, Rm 6875, 935 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20535-0001

D -- DATABASE INFORMATION SERVICES SOL RFI000001 DUE 021400 POC Susan J. Smith, Contracting Officer, telephone (304) 625-2441 The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking potential sources for the services described below. By way of background, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) is a nationwide, computerized information system established as a service to all criminal justice agencies -- local, state, and federal. The goal of NCIC is to assist the criminal justice community in performing its duties by providing and maintaining a computerized filing system of accurate and timely documented criminal justice information. The NCIC is maintained and utilized through a shared management concept supported by federal, state, and local law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. Through their cooperative support of the entire criminal justice community, the CJIS Division provides state-of-the-art identification and information services to local, state, federal, and international criminal justice communities. While carrying out their mission, the CJIS Division is responsible for a number of ongoing developmental projects and systems. One of these systems is VINNY. VINNY is a system developed by the CJIS Division which utilizes a server to emulate an NCIC terminal operator and provides its users the capability to submit batch files of Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) overnight to the NCIC and National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) databases. Its function is to receive batch processing, collate reports, and provide law enforcement entities at the ports the capability to query multiple databases via the Law Enforcement Online (LEO) E-mail system. VINNY was developed to enhance the capabilities of the NCIC and aid in the reduction of the illegal exportation of stolen vehicles. VINNY currently provides users overnight batch processing of submitted VINs and processes them against the NCIC Vehicle File and the NICB database. The NICB database contains information on car rentals, automobile exports, and salvage records. Once responses are received from NCIC and NICB, VINNY collates them into a comprehensive, user-friendly report and returns them to each submitting client overnight. The VINNY reports provide law enforcement with an additional tool to identify and recover stolen vehicles before they leave the United States. This information allows law enforcement to identify, investigate, and target those criminal organizations or enterprises involved in national and international vehicle theft. On April 6, 1999, 19 CFR Part 178 and 192, Exportation of Used Motor Vehicles stated, "For vehicles that are leased or for which a recorded lien exists in the United States, Customs will require additional documentation that proves consent by such third- parties-in-interest that the vehicles presented may be exported. This third-party proof of consent must be in writing, give express permission for the vehicle to be exported, and bear the original signature of the third-party." As a result of this law, information is being sought from companies maintaining databases which house recorded vehicle lien data. To ensure compliance with 19 CFR Part 178 and 192, it is anticipated that this type of information would be of value to the law enforcement entities at the ports participating in the VINNY system. It is foreseen VINNY will submit the VINs received from the ports to the lienholders database for processing via LEO on a nightly basis. Once this information is processed against the lienholder database, the generated hits will be combined with the NCIC and NICB hits and sent to the VINNY client in a user-friendly report by 7 a.m. the following morning. The company housing this database must have the capability to: 1) process thousands of VINs submitted daily from the FBI's VINNY system; 2) decrypt and encrypt an ASCII E-mail file using AT&T Secret Agent; 3) process VINNY files every night at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST), and all submitted VINs must be processed and returned to VINNY by 5 a.m. EST; 4) provide hit notifications from the lienholder's database to VINNY along with a point of contact and phone number; 5) update the lienholder database twice a day; 6) establish a LEO account; 7) provide the hit information from this database to the FBI and law enforcement free of charge -- No access fees or maintenance charges of any kind will be paid by law enforcement for this data; and 8) provide access to a lienholder database consisting of at least two million vehicles. Interested parties are requested to submit written information regarding their interest and capabilities to provide this service. Interested companies must provide the size of the database and the financial institutions represented. The written information shall be submitted in an original and three copies within 30 days of publication of this announcement. The responses shall be submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Attention: Susan J. Smith, Module E-2, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306. Posted 01/12/00 (W-SN415332). (0012)

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