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Sources Sought – Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Market Research Subscription Tool – The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has a requirement for licenses to allow required users to access and use business credit data within an existing website. The data provided by the website should allow contracting officers to review all domestic and international company and credit data to determine if the company they are reviewing can meet each of the general standards listed in FAR 9.104-1. The contractor must provide access to an online subscription tool with unlimited report access to business credit reports to investigate the financial background of companies. This includes the re-use of reports after the initial request for up to 12 months.
In other data news, on March 16th, VentureBeat published an interesting article/interview entitled, Location data analytics provider SafeGraph raises $45M. In this article, Kyle Wiggers, describes how SafeGraph, a startup using AI to create and maintain mobility datasets, announced it has raised $45 million and with the investment, they plan to capitalize on the expanding international market of data buyers and offer new ways for companies to buy data through its network.
- “But location analytics solutions have drawn increased scrutiny as regulators take a hard look at the data vendors are collecting. Using datasets from Fysical and SafeGraph, the New York Times managed to track the movements of former President Trump during the 2017 presidential inauguration. More recently, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and IRS announced they would audit their own use of location data after it was revealed that the agencies were purchasing cellphone location data from commercial sources."
The Carpe Datum Team
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Request for Information: Strategic Risk Management (SRM) award under the Next Generation Global Health Supply Chain Suite of Programs (NextGen)/Worldwide
Agency for International Development
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The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is seeking input from interested applicants who may provide comments, opinions, and recommendations in response to the proposed activity approach in the subject draft Statement of Objectives (SOO) for the proposed Strategic Risk Management Procurement under the Next Generation Global Health Supply Chain Suite of Programs (NextGen)... |
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PURCHASE OF CREDIT CARD, DEBIT CARD, OR SIMILAR TRANSACTION DATA
Dept. of Commerce
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The Government intends to acquire the necessary purchase of Credit Card, Debit Card, or similar Transaction Data by awarding an order to obtain data on consumer credit and debit card transactions that provide timely information and a disaggregated geographical level, including expenditure across various retail and service industries, and including detail on digital versus brick-and-mortar purchases... |
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REQUEST FOR COMMENT U.S. ARMY AVIATION PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE INNOVATION CONTRACT CONCEPT INTRODUCTION
Dept. of Defense
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The Government is performing market research to assist in determining the feasibility and strategy of contracting for services providing innovative intelligent automation, augmentation, analytics, and solutions to the U.S. Army Aviation Program Executive Office, hereafter referred to as PEO Aviation... |
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NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB): IT Strategic Research and Analysis Subscription
Dept. of Commerce
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The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) intends to issue an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for the procurement of IT Strategic Research and Analysis Subscription... |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source CoStar Commercial Real Estate Market Research Subscription
Dept. of Defense
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The New York District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to award a sole source purchase order to Costar Realty Information, Inc., for subscriptions to verify information on commercial property in the mainly in the states of New York and New Jersey... |
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Raw Data Feed- Air and Marine Operations Center
Dept. of Homeland Security
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection intends to issue a Firm Fixed Price sole source award to ORBCOMM, Inc to provide raw data feed of combined satellite/terrestrial National Marine Electronics Association... |
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Common Enterprise Loan Origination and Servicing (CELOS) Platform
Dept. of Agriculture
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CELOS RFI - Update - Notices 3/15/21 Final - March 15, 2021 |
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Financial Capability Assessment Online Subscription
Dept. of Defense
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Amendment 1 - March 16, 2021 |
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interoperable Medical Automated Systems (iMAS) Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithm Development for interoperable Algorithms for Care and Treatment (iACT)
Dept. of Defense
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iACT Announcement - March 16, 2021 |
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Innovative & Transformative Commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)
Dept. of Defense
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CSO Questions and Responses - March 16, 2021 |
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SPA Awarded DOD Contract To Assess U.S. Industrial Base; William Vantine Quoted |
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DOE Announces $34.5M for Data Science and Computation Tools for Climate Solutions |
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $34.5 million for research tools for scientific discoveries, including clean energy and climate solutions... |
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U.S. plans to use real world and trial data to determine when vaccines need to be updated |
Peter Marks, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a hearing on Wednesday that his agency has already started getting data on vaccine safety from surveillance systems... |
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FDIC and University of Santa Clara to Host 'Big Data' Webinar Series |
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the University of Santa Clara today announced a series of public webinars to explore the opportunities and challenges in leveraging big data for the banking industry... |
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Stimulus Package Means Billions for State and Local Tech |
The massive federal stimulus package signed last week by President Biden will bring billions of dollars to state and local governments... |
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How AI enables reporters, photo-journalists and broadcasters to humanise content |
It empowers journalists, builds trust and helps to fight deep fakes... |
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Predictive Policing: Big Potential as Big Data Fights Crime |
Police in the United States have used clues and deductive reasoning to fight crime for more than 175 years... |
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Traditional & algorithmic bias-fraught data a reality |
The offline biases that humans hold are codified into numbers. The figures often fail to capture the structural issues of the offline world into representative data points... |
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Tech tactics: How Artificial Intelligence is aiding the fight against Covid-19 |
Clinicians, academicians and government entities around the world have leaned on new-age technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and data science, to track and fight the coronavirus pandemic... |
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AI patent intelligence platform PatSnap secures $300M |
PatSnap, which offers a patent and R&D platform and services, today announced that it raised $300 million in series E funding from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent Investment...
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Informatica Offers Partners Faster Development Capabilities, Advanced Training |
Informatica is launching several partner-focused initiatives that the cloud data management software developer says will help partners – especially systems integrators with which the vendor is allied – accelerate customers’ cloud and digital transformation efforts... |
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Meltwater Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Social Media Intelligence Company Linkfluence for 50 Million Euro in a Combination of Cash, Equity, and Earn-Out |
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Foursquare Relaunches Places Product With Enhanced Points-of-Interest Database and New API |
Today, Foursquare announces two major advancements to its leading location technology platform: the relaunch of the Places Database and the introduction of Places Enterprise API. With the enhanced database and new enterprise-grade API, Foursquare further cements its status as the #1 independent provider of point-of-interest (POI) data for enterprises and developers...
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Metro21 Lunch and Learn: Public Policy Analytics: Code and Context for Data Science in Government |
April 8, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 PM Zoom
Join Metro21 on Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 12pm as we hear Dr. Ken Steif discuss his project, "Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government."
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