SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Video Analytic Data Collection for Public Safety
- Notice Date
- 2/26/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 512110
— Motion Picture and Video Production
- 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-18-0009
- Archive Date
- 3/27/2018
- Point of Contact
- Brian Jamieson, Phone: 3019758276
- E-Mail Address
-
Brian.Jamieson@NIST.GOV
(Brian.Jamieson@NIST.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NIST recognizes that proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Background: The NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) is a measurement and testing laboratory doing work that encompasses a wide range of technology areas, to include computer science, mathematics, statistics, and systems engineering. The Information Assurance Division (IAD) is one of the divisions within the ITL. The IAD mission is to perform research and measurement evaluation on technologies relevant to information access, including speech processing and understanding; image and video recognition; natural language processing and 3-D visualization. IAD is working with the NIST Public Safety Communications Research division on research and development specifically in the area of multi-modal analytics. This research includes funding of research and development in several areas that include the development of algorithms, frameworks, specialized systems and data acquisition. Video data for research and development is critically important for the development of advanced algorithms and analytics. With the advent of advanced machine learning techniques, the requirement for high quality testing and training data has only gotten larger. In order to obtain maximum performance from cutting-edge analytics it is necessary to have a large volume of relevant data that is collected in a way that maximizes statistical significance allowing accurate evaluations to be performed. While there are numerous datasets available for research, many are encumbered with policy and privacy hurdles. Often these datasets are purpose-built to support a specific project space that may not be related to public safety. While organizations such as NIST, DARPA and IARPA have addressed some of the data issues, typically the data gathered is centered around DoD/IC use cases. Public safety organizations have data that can be made available in many cases, but this data often has little or no ground truth annotation and would pose a challenge for privacy compliance for research use. Many of the currently available datasets do not contain sufficient data and statistical diversity to support advanced machine learning algorithm development. Some of the available datasets address a development of a very specific algorithm and as such capture just a simplified activity such as a single object being left in a large uncluttered space, a large object being carried through a camera field without significant contrasting activity or similar appearance/disappearance of objects in the visual field of view. Due to these constraints and issues, a dataset collected in a manner that maximizes utility and availability to the research community is necessary. Requirement: NIST is seeking information on contractors who can provide services/solutions based on the following requirement description: IAD is seeking information from companies that would be able to support the development and production of video products representing read-world critical events that can occur in public safety mission space. Types of events could include criminal activities such as armed robberies, assaults with weapons, or persons carrying concealed weapons. The captured events will consist of scenes, activities, events and objects that will be specified by the government. The goal of the video data collected is to drive future research and development in video analytics and to provide evaluation and training data for evaluations resulting from upcoming challenge grants. A primary objective of this project is to design, create and deliver a large research dataset that will effectively represent scenes, activities and objects of interest that are useful and frequently encountered in public safety surveillance use cases. This dataset will include variations on objects and events so as to provide robust conditions and number of extant objects both static and dynamic in order to maximize statistical significance of scientific measurements. The intent is to drive advances in computer vision that ultimately will directly benefit the public safety user community. It is expected that there will be several scenarios designed for video capture that will emulate real-world situations that would be encountered in public safety operations. Nominally there will be a minimum of three scenarios in different geographic locations. In order to ensure the data collected is diverse, the scenarios and geographic locations will be varied significantly. Each capture will have a range of simultaneously operating video cameras that vary in quality from a high-end reference camera to consumer-grade sensors such as cell phones and lower cost IP video cameras. Paid subjects will be utilized to staff the scenarios. Staffing will be done with consent documentation to generate an unencumbered data collection for research use. Physical locations can be real public areas and facilities. In some cases, mock-ups can be used as a substitute. The government will provide a detailed description of requirements for each videography event. This description will be reviewed with the participation of the contractor to finalize the event activities. The contractor will produce videos created using contractor supplied subject matter expertise and support staff while coordinating with technical and programmatic requirements provided by the government. Specific tasking will include some or all of the following: • Video data capture event design and facilitation • Video capture venue location identification and engagement • Video capture-related logistics and procurement • Production facilitation including personnel engagement, scripting, direction and associated logistics • Object coordination and specific event planning, integration and capture (e.g. specialized venues, video event-based activity and object in video) • Videography services and/or subcontracting • Video capture equipment specifications, requirements and procurement • Post-production editing, annotation, release, distribution, duplication • Post-production data curation support In addition to describing your company's solutions and capabilities, please attempt to address the following topics in your response: A. Describe any possible cost benefit advantages related to your capabilities? B. Describe any possible schedule or execution advantages related to your capabilities? C. Are there other agencies that you can provide an example demonstrating relevant capabilities? If so, please do so. Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their organization as it relates to the services and topics described above. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses. The small business size standard associated with the NAICS code for this effort, is 512110, with a size standard of $32.5M. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. Companies that can provide such services are requested to email a written response describing their abilities to Brian.Jamieson@NIST.GOV no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name, Address, DUNS number, CAGE code, and point of contact information of your company. 2. Any information on the company's small business certifications, if applicable. 3. Description of your company's capabilities as they relate to the services described in this notice. 4. A description of your company's previous experience providing the services described in this notice. 5. Indication of whether the services described in this notice are currently offered via your company's GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), or other existing Government-wide contract vehicles; and, if so, the contract number(s) for those vehicles. 6. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research. Responses are limited to a total of ten (10) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format. Pages shall be 8½-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11 Point Font. Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be analyzed) may be included in the 1" margin space.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
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