U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover Building, Rm 6875, 935 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20535-0001

D -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION DUE 041699 POC Susan J. Smith, Contracting Officer, (304) 625-2441 The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) is an on-line information service jointly maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and criminal justice agencies throughout the United States. A new system, called NCIC 2000, will provide all the current services of the original NCIC system in addition to new services. The new services include fingerprint matching and access to new information files and images. Image types will include identifying images such as scars, marks, tattooes and identifying photographs. NCIC 2000 is a transaction processing system that supports a specific set of transactions or messages. The messages are defined in the NCIC 2000 Message Book. The FBI has developed a User Workstation (WS) software application that supports all transaction types and a Mobile Imaging Unit (MIU) software application that supports a subset of transaction types intended for use from a patrol car. The WS and MIU applications employ PC compatible components and the Windows operating system. Users may deploy the FBI's WS and MIU software as delivered or integrate NCIC 2000 transactions into their own systems. They may reuse FBI software or develop their own software to support user interfaces, peripherals and message formats specified in the NCIC 2000 Message Book. NCIC 2000 Reference Documents available from the FBI include: 1. Interface Requirements Specification (IRS); 2. Message Book; 3. Technical Planning Guide; 4. User Planning Guide; 5. Operating Manual (available first quarter 1999); and 6. Workstation and MIU documentation package. The FBI will provide the software for WS and MIU applications to interested law enforcement agencies. Users will need to establish appropriate license agreements for commercial-off-the-shelf software components. Source code is available for most of the application code. The remainder, consisting of fingerprint image processing code, is provided in executable Dynamic Linked Library (DLL) form. The DLLs are required to format NCIC 2000 fingerprint transactions and to display fingerprint responses. A sixteen-bit version of the DLLs and documentation is available from the FBI. A 32-bit version is being planned. The DLLs will reduce an input fingerprint image to an NCIC 2000 data element of approximately 2.5 kilobytes for transmission. NCIC 2000 non-fingerprint images are gray scale (not color). They are compressed using Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) with a compression Quality Factor of 25. The target size for a compressed mugshot image data element is 3.12 kilobytes. For other identifying images, the target size is 5 kilobytes. The WS and MIU applications will also support transparent data transmission between patrol cars and base stations at local law enforcement facilities. Text transactions (e.g. wanted persons, missing persons, vehicles, etc.) will average approximately 200 bytes. Information, services, and/or products are being sought to aid in telecommunications system integration of NCIC 2000 mobile unit operations, which include hardware and software. Proof of concept testing will be conducted at the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJISD) Facility located in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The information, services and/or products proposed for this testing WILL BE AT NO COST TO THE GOVERNMENT. This testing will be conducted with personnel at the CJISD Facility in a mobile environment to adequately test the information, services, and/or products. Simulated NCIC 2000 inquiries and responses will be generated to test performance specifications of the proposals. The proposed information, services and/or products should apply to wireless mobile telecommunications systems and environments which include but are not limited to: 1) Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) systems; 2) Radio Frequency Local Area Networks (RFLANs); 3) Cellular systems; 4) Trunked systems (both VHF and UHF); 5) Conventional RF systems; 6) Paging systems; 7) Satellite communications; 8) Software for mobile data applications; 9) Mobile laptop computers; 10) Pen based computers; 11) Modem technologies; 12) Digital cameras; 13) Fingerprint live-scan technologies; and 14) Other new and advanced technologies as they relate to wireless data applications. Functionally, the proposed information, services and/or products should demonstrate NCIC 2000 transactions operating over a wireless mobile communications system. Demonstration of mobile fingerprint live scanning, image printing, and capture of digital photographs is desired. The FBI's MIU application is being upgraded to support a TWAIN standard interface for the live scanner and camera. FBI-provided fingerprint processing software must be integrated into any demonstration system that builds fingerprint transactions or receives and displays fingerprint responses at the patrol car. Integration techniques should address image and data transmission in current 25 KHz channel land mobile radio channels, 12.5 KHz channel allocations, and eventual 6.25 KHz (or equivalent) spectrum migration. Spectrum efficiencies and bandwidth considerations relative to data transmission should be discussed in detail. These techniques should also address integration and migration techniques for both analog and digital systems. Integration considerations should include networks dedicated strictly for wireless data and combined voice/data applications. Proposed information, services, and/or products should address relevant security applications and the ability to seamlessly operate through a variety of wireless environments. These considerations should emphasize priority access for law enforcement and public safety agencies 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Interested parties should submit in writing, the hardware, software, and support services resources that they are interested in providing for testing AT NO COST TO THE GOVERNMENT. Resource availability should adequately address the time frame that these items will be available and the overall objectives to be obtained. Interested parties should also submit in writing, required space, power, operating environment, and technical requirements that will be required to test their products. An original and three copies of responses shall be submitted within 30 days from the date of this advertisement. Responses should be forwarded to Federal Bureau of Investigation, Information Technology Contracts Unit, Attn: Susan J. Smith, E-2, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, WV 26306. NOTE: This advertisement is for information-gathering purposes only. The FBI does not have a requirement for acquisition at this time. If a requirement for the FBI results from the information gathered through this advertisement, the procurement will be handled in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Posted 03/16/99 (W-SN309010). (0075)

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