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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 147 / Wednesday, August 4, 2021 / Notices
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JVPs who are selected and enter into joint venture partnership agreements pursuant to this notice will be eligible to submit proposals for specific project opportunities. Eligible JVPs interested in such opportunities will be required to submit a proposal in response to an opportunity announcement for specific projects within a short time period, typically two to three weeks.
Proposers must have the ability to accept electronic fund transfers.
NTIS will not guarantee that any revenue will be generated for the JVP
merely by entering into a joint venture partnership agreement with NTIS.
Proposers must have the ability to fund their portion of any projects commenced pursuant to a joint venture partnership agreement for a period of time, which may differ for individual projects, due to Federal accrual accounting practices. NTIS does not allow and has never offered financial incentives for entering into joint venture partnership agreements. NTIS will not provide advance payments to JVPs.
III. Requested Response NTIS seeks to enter into joint venture partnerships with one or more partners to assist Federal agencies in furthering their missions in innovative and creative ways by enabling government agencies and the public with improved access to, or analysis, collection, or use of Federal data and data services, either alone or in combination with nonFederal data. NTIS and its JVPs provide data services for speedy execution of innovative projects, typically involving one or more of the following attributes:
a First or early use of emerging technology; b complexity of solution architecture, interoperability, and/or security; c agile applications development and systems operations, which require adaptive scoping; or d custom solutions to meet unique requirements without COTS solutions.
Proposers are encouraged to include proposed teams of private-sector organizations, which may include small and medium-size enterprises and startups that bring unique and innovative capabilities for delivering data science capabilities. Proposals should describe any proposed teaming arrangements and solution integration capabilities, including the relationships among the parties, how the team would function, and how the team may be augmented to fill missing capabilities. Although teaming arrangements are encouraged, the JVP itself will be expected to provide at least 50 percent of the labor on each project for which it is selected.
NTIS will evaluate each proposal and
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may solicit oral presentations from some or all proposers. Where appropriate, NTIS, in its discretion, may reach out to selected JVPs for teaming arrangements on future projects that involve emerging and/or cutting-edge capabilities that fall within NTIS mission.
Proposal Submission Information The proposal is a word-processed document of no more than fifteen 15
single-spaced pages responsive to the evaluation criteria set forth below. Any pages submitted beyond the 15-page limit will not be considered. Each proposal page layout should be 8.5
inches by 11 inches with 1-inch margins. The font for the proposal should be Times New Roman 12 point or similar font in readable size no less than 10 point. All submissions must be made in electronic format and submitted in accordance with the ADDRESSES section above. All proposals are subject to the False Claims Amendments Act of 1986, 31 U.S.C.
3729 and 18 U.S.C. 287, as well as the False Statements Accountability Act of 1996, 18 U.S.C 1001. In accordance with Federal appropriations law, an authorized representative of the selected proposers may be required to provide certain certifications regarding Federal felony and Federal criminal tax convictions, unpaid Federal tax assessments, and delinquent Federal tax returns.
Proposal Technical, Administrative and Business Information The proposal must address each of the evaluation criteria set forth in the following section and should include all of the information set forth in this section in a manner sufficient to allow each section to be reviewed against the evaluation criteria set forth below. Each section of the proposal should include a brief title or description of its content.
1 The proposal to become a JVP
must include a capability statement that describes the nature and scope of the organizations expertise to perform data services to address mission-critical Federal data requirements. The proposal must include: a A description of technical capabilities in each area of data innovation that the proposer and, where applicable, its team, will address;
b examples of up to three major projects where the proposer and, where applicable, its team, have demonstrated data innovations using the technical capabilities; if the proposer and, where applicable, its team, have not conducted projects in which they have demonstrated data innovations using the technical capabilities, the proposer should include instead a description of
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how it would go about doing so; c a description of the professional accomplishments, skills, certifications, and training of the personnel proposed to provide the technical capabilities and perform the work proposed in the proposal, including each individual whose innovative technical capabilities are critical to the development or execution of joint venture projects in a substantive and measurable way; and d a description of the resources, such as staff, partnerships, integration and project management capabilities, contracts, or technologies, that the proposer would use to achieve these innovations. This information will be considered against evaluation criteria 1
through 3 below.
2 The proposal may include any other information that the proposer thinks will assist reviewers in their evaluation of the proposal against the evaluation criteria described below.
To the extent permitted by law, including the Freedom of Information Act FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552, NTIS will not disclose confidential or proprietary information provided and clearly marked in any proposal submitted in response to this notice without providing the organization that submitted such information the opportunity to object to the potential release of the information. If NTIS
receives a request for disclosure of confidential or proprietary information, it will promptly notify the submitting organization in writing and give it an opportunity to demonstrate that NTIS
should withhold the information in accordance with Department of Commerce FOIA regulations 15 CFR
part 4.
Evaluation Criteria The evaluation criteria for the proposals are as follows:
1 Rationality 035 points.
The extent to which the logic and soundness of the proposers approach to enable data innovations that will address Federal data priorities by a advancing the use of data as a strategic asset to achieve mission outcome and support evidence-based policies; b transforming and optimizing supply chains through the use of data science capabilities; c promoting data governance and standardization; and d creating new capabilities for data discovery, data set search, and interoperability to connect and derive new insights for predictive analytics and prescriptive actions.
2 Technical Merit of Contribution 030 points.
The technical effectiveness and innovation of the proposed capabilities
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