Request for Information-DHS Office of Health Security-Air Passenger Travel Data Subscription

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION NUMBER 70RDA326RFI000001 Air Passenger Travel Data Subscription Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Health Security (OHS) NOTE: THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This RFI is issued solely for information and market research planning purposes. This RFI shall not be construed as an obligation on the part of the Government. This is NOT a Request for Quotations or Proposals. The Government may or may not issue a formal solicitation as a result of the responses received to this RFI. The Government will not pay any response or demonstration expenses. All costs incurred responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested party's expense. Failure to respond to this RFI will not preclude participation in any future solicitation. Any information received will become the property of the Government and will not be returned to the submitter. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or sensitive information. The Government’s explicit intent, in this request for information, is to not receive from respondents any proprietary data, trade secrets, business sensitive information, or information considered CONFIDENTIAL under 18 U.S.C. §1905. The Government’s constraint does not in any way relieve contractors from their responsibility to properly mark proprietary data when it is provided, nor does it alleviate any requirement for the Government to protect marked data. The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. The information provided in this RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. All submissions become the property of the Federal Government and will not be returned. I. DESCRIPTION The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) takes a comprehensive approach to national security, public safety, and border security. Individuals encountered by the DHS workforce can present an array of individual health and public health concerns. The DHS Office of Health Security (OHS), led by the DHS Chief Medical Officer, is the principal medical, workforce health and safety, and public health authority for DHS. The Office of Health Security (OHS) serves as the principal medical, workforce health and safety, and public health authority for the Department of Homeland Security. The National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) organizationally falls within DHS/OHS and conducts biosurveillance activities to enable early warning and situational awareness of acute biological events and supports better preparedness and response decisions through rapid identification, characterization, localization, and tracking. The objective of NBIC is to advance the safety, security, and resilience of the Nation by leading an integrated biosurveillance effort in support of Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government stakeholders. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) is conducting market research in accordance with FAR Part 10 to assess the available capabilities of air passenger volume data for use in biosurveillance. Understanding human travel patterns and global migration is critical to managing emerging infectious diseases and maintaining biosecurity. To assist with preparedness for the risk from infectious diseases worldwide, NBIC requires a method to quickly query for the volume of passengers inbound to the U.S. or other countries, originating from or having nexus to airports, countries, and regions where biological events are occurring. (Ideally, this would include passengers who have layovers elsewhere in the world.) Access to historical air passenger volume data will also allow NBIC to identify seasonal trends. NBIC requires the data necessary to identify areas in the U.S. that may have a high risk of disease spread based on incoming travelers, identify U.S. airports with the greatest volume of arriving passengers from regions of concern, and identify other countries/locations where infected travelers have the potential to travel to and spread the disease. OHS expects to be the responsible office for any subsequent solicitations and awards that may be a result of the market research efforts directly associated with this RFI. II. RFI PURPOSE The purposes of this RFI are: To gain an understanding of Industry’s view of appropriate product and service offerings for providing the required support. To obtain Industry feedback on the proposed requirements to include comment on any potential missing, incomplete, or lacking in adequate clarity, product/service considerations, activities, or factors needed to promote optimization and adaptability, in support of the DHS management function and component activities. To secure a better understanding of the commercial market space and capabilities to include available Government-wide solutions and provider capabilities. To obtain thoughtful and detailed responses from Industry to questions posed about the DHS air passenger travel data offerings. III. INFORMATION REQUEST Interested parties should submit responses that address the following areas: A. Company Information -Company name, entity information, address, website. -Point of contact name, title, email, phone. -Business size and socio-economic status under proposed North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 513210 – Software Publishers For company information responses please see the Microsoft Forms Link. B. Government RFI Questions Product Identification Identify the product that you are proposing to provide commercial air travel passenger and airframe data. Historical Data Does this system include at least three years of historical global flight data, at no less than a weekly update frequency, to include passenger volumes and global flight routes between world-wide airports? How far back does the historical data that would be available in …