ODNI Commended for Game-Changing ICDC Initiative

We commend the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for its bold and game-changing Intelligence Community Data Consortium (ICDC) initiative. Eschewing the traditional FAR-based approach, the solicitation contemplates award of Prototype Other Transaction (OT) Agreement(s). Addressing the problem set head on the solicitation states, "The IC has a commercial data acquisition duplication problem and a costly commercial data replication and storage problem. The Government is seeking to award OTs to small businesses, nontraditional defense contractors, or traditional defense contractors if they propose significant involvement from a nontraditional contractor or provide a one-third cost share, with potential for follow-on sole-source sustainment contracts, to manage a commercial data consortium that unifies commercial data acquisition then enables IC users to access and interact with this commercial data in one place on unclassified systems while reducing data copying to classified computer systems."

Responses due at noon EDT on April 28, 2025. Read procurement notice here: https://lnkd.in/eAcY88px