SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Public Safety Speech Corpus Speech Analytic Technology Evaluations
- Notice Date
- 2/3/2017
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- AMDTC-17-0008
- Archive Date
- 3/2/2017
- Point of Contact
- Abdul-Kudus Yahaya, Phone: 3019758497, Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
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abdul-kudus.yahaya@nist.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov
(abdul-kudus.yahaya@nist.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. This is a notice of intent to award a sole source award by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements to: Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 3451 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205 for NIST Public Safety Speech Corpus for Speech Analytic Technology Evaluations, for a base period of 05/01/2017 - 09/30/2017 and an option period of 10/01/2017 - 04/30/2018. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541690, Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services, and the size standard is 15 million dollars. Since 1987, NIST has contributed to the advancement of speech analytic technologies by implementing open speech analytic evaluations. Speech analytic technologies are developed to, for example, automatically and accurately locate speech (SAD), find target words (KWS) and transcribe audio-speech to text (ASR). The open evaluations bring together developers and researchers interested in advancing speech analytics technology in quality and robustness for increasingly challenging scenarios. Public safety communications is a current and significant challenge. NIST supports the infrastructure for evaluation events by providing data, development tasks, evaluation tasks, evaluation results, and a forum for information interchange following evaluation events. A new evaluation event is planned by NIST with a focus on advancing development in speech analytic technologies for SAD, KWS and ASR for the public safety domain. Test data representing public safety communication is needed for this event and on-going future research. The purpose of this purchase request is to obtain speech corpus of labeled audio files (data) that represent characteristics of speech, background noise, audio/signal processing and transmission effects typically found in public safety communications. The speech corpus also includes transcription and metadata for NIST-sponsored speech analytic technologies evaluations. The data collected through this contract will be used for this purpose. The objective is to support the advancement of speech analytic technologies by providing the human language technology community open participation to evaluation events with access to high quality data and NIST evaluation of analytic output submitted by participants in the evaluation The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania is the only vendor that has the logistical requirements of linguistic data corpora to the research community. Corpora are data speech, video, weblogs, newswire text and other multi-media sources of information which have been enriched with annotations such as transcriptions, translations, parse trees, and other metadata which permit them to be used for linguistic research and evaluation. The LDC of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania is the only vendor with the statistically-based language technologies such as the speech analytics that meet NIST's needs. It is important that the annotation robustness and process is consistent with current available corpora for on-going evaluation-driven statistical analysis of these technologies. The LDC is the only vendor that provides and supports a large scale shared repository for controlled distribution and management of corpora data, including management of signed data agreements by researchers and developers as required by this NIST project. A determination to compete this procurement based on a response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to abdul-kudus.yahaya@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at abdul-kudus.yahaya@nist.gov no later than February 15, 2017 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. NOTHING HEREIN SHOULD BE MISCONSTRUED AS A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS, QUOTES OR BIDS. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE NOR IS ONE INTENDED TO BE ISSUED.
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