VOLUME 5. ISSUE 20.

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Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector, the only publication of its kind dedicated exclusively to data and analytics companies that share our passion for serving the Public Sector. Our featured items begin with the Department of Labor seeking subscription services for real-time financial data - including debt securities, fixed income indexes, sector industry and price data, commodities trade data, industry analysis, and general financial services data research.

 

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) — Financial Data Subscription Services - Department of Labor's PPI-OPLC-BLS require continuous access to a subscription for real time financial data. The primary goal of this acquisition is to obtain a subscription to allow for access to and the ability to download real time financial data. The following specific data elements are required: Evaluated Ask Price for various types of debt securities including municipals, corporates, MBS, etc., Evaluated Bid Price for various types of debt securities including municipals, corporates, MBS, etc., Aggregated Fixed Income (Bond) Indexes, etc.

 

In other data news, on May 9th, Politico published an article entitled Feds turn antitrust focus to digital pharma ads. In this story, Josh Sisco and Ruth Reader describe how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are expanding their antitrust investigation to include digital pharma ads, with a particular emphasis on examining the role of data in the healthcare advertising sector. This shift reflects concerns over potential anticompetitive practices and aims to address the influence of data-driven strategies on competition within the pharmaceutical industry.

 

  • At issue in the FTC probe is whether the deal would help IQVIA, a $35 billion pharmaceutical data and analytics company, lock up the bulk of the market for digital advertising of pharmaceuticals aimed at doctors and patients, thereby harming rivals and potentially increasing costs for drugmakers, said three of the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss a confidential investigation. IQVIA is already the largest player in health data and analytics.”

 

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Employment Screening/Background Check Software/Services

Dept. of Energy

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (SRNS), which manages and operates portions of the Savannah River Site (SRS) under a Department of Energy (DOE) prime contract, seeks information from parties capable of providing Employment Screening and Background Check Software/Services. ­­­­

Request for White Papers - Automated Data Collection & Reduction Analytic (DCRA), for Project Manager Intelligence Systems & Analytics (PM IS&A)

Dept. of Defense

DCRA will provide the C5ISR SUT with simulated intelligence data consisting of both all-source (i.e., entities, attributes, and relationships), serialized reporting, target lists/matrices, and multiple single intelligence (INT) sources including, but not limited to, signals intelligence (SIGINT), geographical intelligence (GEOINT), communications intelligence (COMINT), and imagery intelligence (IMINT).

Critical Mineral Assessments with AI Support (CriticalMAAS)

Dept. of Defense

Critical Mineral Assessments with AI Support (CriticalMAAS) aims to develop Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) tools to automate and accelerate key time consuming parts of United States Geological Survey (USGS) critical mineral assessments (CMA) workflow.

Request for Information - Development of WTC Health Program Youth Research Cohort

Dept. of Health and Human Services

The World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program requests information on methods for establishing a research cohort of sufficient size to conduct future studies on the health and educational impacts of 9/11 exposures on persons aged 21 years or younger at the time of exposure to the terrorist attacks and aftermath, including such individuals who are screening-eligible WTC survivors or certified-eligible WTC survivors.

NGA Maven Supply Chain Risk Management Services

Dept. of Defense

Response to questions. Changes to RFP.

Integrated Analytics Service Provider (IASP)

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

Response to questions. Extension of solicitation to May 22, 2023.

Individual Identity Verification and Authentication Support Services

Dept. of Homeland Security

This SSN is being cancelled to update the requirement docouments.

Sources Sought Notice for digital asset data subscription

Securities and Exchange Commission

Response to questions.

Notice of Intent to Sole Source to Credit Bureaus – TRANSUNION

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to award Blanket Purchase Agreements to the three nationwide credit bureaus: Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion.

Notice of Intent to Sole Source to Credit Bureaus - EXPERIAN

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to award Blanket Purchase Agreements to the three nationwide credit bureaus: Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion.

Notice of Intent to Sole Source to Credit Bureaus - EQUIFAX

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to award Blanket Purchase Agreements to the three nationwide credit bureaus: Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion.

S&P Global PLATTS Data

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") intends to negotiate and award a sole-source contract for the procurement of various commodity and financial data feeds from S&P Global Platts. 

Justification for an Exception to Fair Opportunity - Modification to GSA Data Warehousing and Analytics task order

Dept. of Health and Human Services

This task order allows for the Office of Evidence and Analysis (OEA) within the OGP to provide support for all OGP business lines in data collection, data processing, validation, visualization, reporting, analysis, governance, policy, project management and change management initiatives. The outcome of these tasks will be the maturity and scalability of the OEA data services throughout OGP, enabling breakthrough performance and business transformation in each business line.

DHS wants software to manage biometrics system requirements

In the request, DHS' Office of Biometric Identity Management asks for insights into requirements development and management tools that can help it capture, develop, store and assess system requirements and supporting documentation across its system, which stores and shares biometric information with a range of other agencies. 

NASA Still Lacks a Unified Definition of AI, Watchdog Finds

The OIG found that, despite some effort to manage the agency’s AI, NASA fell short by not having a single definition of AI. The report also noted that the agency’s AI classification and tracking are insufficient to fully address current and future federal requirements and AI cybersecurity concerns. 

FDA Releases Two Discussion Papers on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Drug Development and Manufacturing

In a statement introducing the papers, Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., Director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, highlighted the potential of AI/ML to transform how stakeholders develop, manufacture, use, and evaluate therapies. “Ultimately, AI/ML can help bring safe, effective, and high-quality treatments to patients faster,” she wrote.

JUST IN: Coast Guard Learning to Love Data Management, Information Technology

As the United States Coast Guard defines its roll in an increasingly complex maritime domain, it must focus on managing decades of data and harnessing information technology, said the service’s top official.

Public-health agency to continue using mobile-network data to track population movement

BT will use information gleaned from the location services of customers throughout the UK to provide UKHSA with two types of data sets, broadly covering journeys made by road and rail, and footfall in urban and suburban areas. This information will be aggregated and entirely anonymised. 

Washington State Passes My Health, My Data Act to Safeguard Health Data Privacy

The act aims to modernize the state’s consumer protection framework by giving individuals to right to withdraw consent, request data deletion, and prohibiting the collection and sharing of health data without consent.

EU committees green-light the AI Act

The Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament have endorsed new transparency and risk-management rules for artificial intelligence systems known as the AI Act. This marks a major step in the development of AI regulation in Europe, as these are the first-ever rules for AI. The rules aim to ensure that AI systems are safe, transparent, traceable, and non-discriminatory.

The Wheels that Squeak: Why Preventing Fraud is Not a Government Priority

Agency leaders need more institutional incentives to manage fraud, waste, and abuse in their programs systemically, argues one former member of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.

Initiatives Support Data for Policy, Citizen Data

The Data4Policy Initiative of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Digital Office developed the Data to Policy Navigator to provide step-by-step actionable recommendations on how to integrate data into policy and programme development. Designed to be easily searchable and interactive, the Navigator describes practical examples from across the globe relating to every step of the policy development process, from problem definition to policy design and evaluation.

Experian to roll out new U.S. fintech data network to combat fraud

This collaborative data network can enable participants to have a line of sight into borrower activity across the fintech industry to match for potential fraud risk. Participants will share fraudulent activity in real-time by contributing data that’s then securely linked across the network.

FICO ramps up effort to build better credit scores with an experimental data lab for lenders

The goal of its new incubator program is to ultimately expand the use of alternative data for credit scoring among lenders, thereby tapping into underserved segments of the population, says Sally Taylor, vice president and general manager of B2B Scores at FICO.

PERSPECTIVE: How Predictive Analytics Can Augment ‘Tipping and Cueing’ for Safer Seas

The reality is that there is no single technology capable of capturing all the goings-on at sea, criminal or otherwise. Rather, securing maritime domain awareness requires blending the nuances of remote sensing with AI.

Generative AI Miniseries - Ep 5: AI Powered Public Renaissance

In this fifth episode of our Generative AI Miniseries, host Will Howe (Director of Data Analytics) speaks with Eleanor Dickens (Partner, Public Sector), Robert Dearn (Partner, Public Sector) and Ashley Tsacalos (Partner, Public Sector) to discuss uses and opportunities for government seeking to leverage generative AI, and some of the unique risks facing the public sector.

Okta Gov Identity Summit - Tuesday, June 13, 2023

The second installment of Okta City Tour, featuring the Gov Identity Summit, is coming to the U.S. capitol on June 13. Join us in person or online to hear from security and technology experts in government and industry about the transformative power of modern Identity for your organization.

CISA Virtual Industry Day: National Risk Management Center (NRMC)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will host regular Virtual Industry Day events in fiscal year (FY) 2023.

505 CCW Industry Day at ShOC-N

The focus areas for the 505 CCW Industry Day at ShOC-N 9 June 2023 is dynamic targeting and kill chain automation with specific interest in solutions in manual and/or automated data facilitation and distribution for intelligence, Command and Control, and battle management fielded systems and new prototypes.

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