VOLUME 3. ISSUE 10.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 10) newsletter. From our perspective, the overall volume of government contracting actions in and around Data and Data Analytics opportunities is steadily increasing. Equally important to the system’s overall output, of course, is the quality of those opportunities – here, once again, we’re seeing positive momentum and sensing a very good opening sequence for this new Administration. Time will tell if these observations turn into actual trends, but rest assured that your compadres at Carpe Datum will be tracking them, as well as many others. If you and your organization are currently flummoxed by a federal data matter, please don’t hesitate to drop us a line – no guarantees that we’ll have the answer, but it never hurts to ask ... right?   As always, please share our newsletter with friends, colleagues, and loved ones -- we're small, scrappy, and reliant on word-of-mouth marketing to spread the love and joy of Carpe Datum - Click here to sign-up.    Request for Information (RFI) -- Integrated Information Intelligence (I3P) at the Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) – procurement of an OSINT tool designed to provide a capability for real-time analytics on diverse, rich, global, multi-language publicly available information (PAI) acquired through a managed attribution framework. Data sources were derived from across the social media spectrum and a number of commercial threat intelligence vendors. The current OSINT capability, named the Integrated Intelligence Platform (IIP), intended to enable an OSINT/Cyber Common Operating Picture with geographical and counterintelligence rendering, bolstered by modern artificial intelligence technologies (such as natural language processing, machine translation, etc.) intended to speed the OSINT Analyst’s ability to rapidly survey data, identify hidden trends, and produce actionable intelligence.   In other data news, on February 8th, Stanford Law School (SLS) News and Announcements published an interesting article entitled, Finding the COVID-19 Victims that Big Data Misses. In this article, the author, Edmund L. Andrews, describes how mobility data, which comes from smartphones and is relied upon by almost every public health organization in the United States, actually contains hidden demographic biases that ultimately under-represent the communities that may be most at risk.    “The study, which will be published in the proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, also exposes the broader problem of hidden biases in the data that powers artificial intelligence (AI) models used in fields from criminal justice to automobile insurance. The challenge is that it’s difficult to cross-check the demographic accuracy of a dataset, especially at the most local levels, because it’s difficult to establish the “ground truth” against which it can be compared. The key innovation was to cross-check a cell phone mobility dataset used by many COVID researchers against actual measures of in-person traffic: precinct-level election day voting records." The Carpe Datum Team

Subscription Services Dept. of Housing and Urban Development The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is issuing this source sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for access to web-based subscription services...

Innovative & Transformative Commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) Dept. of Defense This notice is for a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) for Innovative and Transformative Commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies...

Cyber Data Lake Services Request for Information (RFI) Dept. of Education This Request for Information (RFI) is being used as a market research tool to identify businesses interested in being considered to fulfill future anticipated needs...

MULTI-SOURCE, MULTI-DOMAIN DATA EXPLOITATION FOR BATTLESPACE AWARENESS AND DECISION SUPPORT Dept. of Defense Research, develop, demonstrate, integrate, test, evaluate, and deliver technologies that: (1) Process and exploit multi-source, multi-domain data to improve Battlespace Awareness and derive actionable decision information...

Collection, Storage, and Dissemination of Medical Images and Data Related to Cancer Screening Dept. of Health and Human Services This requirement’s objective is to apply scientific expertise to collect, store, and disseminate medical images to facilitate AI research in cancer detection, diagnosis, risk prediction, and clinical decision making...

Procurement of Software Licenses - LeadsOnline - USACIDC Dept. of Defense The US Army Contracting Command - New Jersey, Information Technology Division, on behalf of the United States Army Criminal Invesitgation Command (USACIDC), for eight (8) LeadsOnline software licenses to provide nationwide web-based access to reliable transaction data from pawnshops and scrap yards for use in criminal investigations and the other missions conducted by the USACIDC...

Elsevier Subscription Dept. of Defense The Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA intends to procure on an other than full and open competition basis the following item 1) ScienceDirect Online Renewal, Qty: 1 EA; 2) Scopus Renewal, QTY: 1 EA...

Redacted Limited Sources Justification - Data Integration PCMS Dept. of Defense The contractual action will result in a sole source Purchase Order (PO) for the procurement of the Commercial Data Integration Software Licenses and Professional Services provided by Palantir Technologies...

AHRQ MarketScan Commercial Data Files and Analytic Support (MarketScan Data) Dept. of Health and Human Services The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) intends to sole source to: International Business Machines Corp. This is a new order to purchase MarketScan data and acquire technical assistance to meet the needs of the Government...

Melissa Data Software Data Subscription - Dept. of Health and Human Services Knovel Subscription License Renewal - Dept. of Defense Intent to Sole Source for Fixed-Income Holdings and Profile Data (eMaxx) - Dept. of the Treasury THIS IS A NOTICE OF THE GOVERNMENT’S INTENT TO ISSUE A SOLE SOURCE AWARD TO LEXIS-NEXIS MATTHEW BENDER FOR ONLINE ACCESS AND PUBLICATION SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES - Dept. of Defense

Common Enterprise Loan Origination and Servicing (CELOS) Platform Dept. of Agriculture CELOS RFI Update Notices FINAL - Feb. 11, 2021

IRS-EDCMO-RFI-UPDATE (LISTENING SESSION) Dept. of the Treasury Registration Form - Feb. 10, 2021

Commercially Available Multifamily (MF) Market Data Federal Housing Finance Agency Attachment E - Solicitation Questions and Answers - Feb. 10, 2021

Social Media - Dept. of Defense R612--Foreign Medication Identification Database Subscription Questions and Answers - Dept. of Veterans Affairs Develop Educational Modules for NCSA Data and Data Query Tools - Dept. of Transportation

EFA selects Refinitiv as primary data source for securities operations The European Fund Administration (EFA) has selected Refinitiv, a provider of financial markets data and infrastructure, as its primary data source for securities operations...

Launch of the New Data.gov Catalog On February 5, 2021 we will be launching a new version of the Data.gov catalog. The new catalog is the culmination of many months of work in updating the behind-the-scenes functioning of the Data.gov catalog, which automatically harvests over 1000 different sources from federal, state and local open data sources to provide a comprehensive catalog of open government data...

Treasury pilots AI algorithm to parse congressional spending bills faster More than a year after the governmentwide Chief Data Officers Council held its first meeting, agencies are developing data analytics capabilities that empower decision-making within their top ranks...

Want better policy? Give more support to federal statistics agencies Without reliable data about industry, about agriculture, about the U.S. population, it’s impossible to form good public policy, much less have a meaningful debate about it...

Graph Data Science Gets to the Heart of Corporate Analytics Over 28,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers about graph-powered data science have been published in recent years. But access to the benefits of graph data science is no longer limited to scientists and those with deep pockets...

New Data Regulation to Draw on Notions of Privacy, Data Localization Another Key Trend in 2021, According to Blockchain Professional Li Jun, Founder of Ontology and the SAGA Protocol, notes that we’re now living through an “activist period” of data regulation that will most likely dictate how our economies function for “generations to come.”...

Using Public Datasets For Improved Decision-Making The future of "smart" cities is in street lights Government needs innovators, entrepreneurs, and disruptors

Experian to close more than two million Gov.uk Verify accounts Experian will close more than two million Gov.uk Verify accounts by March 2021, leaving users to find another identity provider (IDP) to be able to access government services...

Experian continues investigation in Brazil's biggest data leakage Experian PLC (LON:EXPN) said some of the information in the biggest ever leak of personal data in Brazil may have been sourced from is Serasa arm in the country...

ThinkData Announces New Partnership with SafeGraph ThinkData Works, Inc. (ThinkData), a data catalog provider, has announced a partnership with SafeGraph. Through this partnership, SafeGraph will make their POI, building footprint, and store visitor insights data for non-residential places available to ThinkData’s network...

ZoomInfo Debuts ‘Talk Data to Me’ Podcast Series ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI), a global leader in go-to-market intelligence solutions, today announced the debut of its first podcast series, Talk Data to Me. The podcast highlights informative data-driven business trends and insightful stories through engaging conversations with industry thought leaders...

Comscore brings audience-based targeting back to Europe with a GDPR-compliant contextual approach Niloofar Razi Howe Joins Tamr's Board of Directors Consilient Bank Trials Demonstrate Federated Machine Learning Improves Effectiveness and Efficiency for Financial Crime Detection Infogroup’s ORC International Launches Social Analytics LiveRamp to Acquire DataFleets to Power Next-Generation Distributed Data Collaboration LiveRamp & Media.net Partner to Strengthen the Consumer Experience by Bringing Contextual Targeting to Addressability Equifax Completes Purchase Of Kount Abacus Insights strikes cloud partnership with Snowflake to help payers scale up data analytics Suplari Agile Contracts Makes Contract Lifecycle Management Smarter, More Efficient With AI-powered Predictive Analytics Palantir Surges on Deal to Offer Software Through IBM Florida-Based Traffic Analytics Startup Raises $1.7M 7 Chord Launches Strategic Data Partnership with IHS Markit to Pave the Way for BondDroid Asset Class Coverage Expansion in 2021 BREAKING: Tyler Technologies to Acquire NIC Nasdaq Announces Completion of Verafin Acquisition Nice Actimize Launches Watchlist Screening Solution Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Shipping Industry’s Efficiency LexisNexis Risk Solutions Launches RiskView Optics and RiskView Spectrum: A New Era in Alternative Credit Scoring

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