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The purpose of this amendment is to include the information that is now bold below. No other changes have been made. ___________________________________________________________________________________... The purpose of this amendment is to include the information that is now bold below. No other changes have been made. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ This REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) is for market research and planning purposes only and shall not be an obligation by the Government to acquire any products or services. Responses to this RFI will be accepted via e-mail to the address listed below. This is not a solicitation announcement for proposals and no contract will be awarded from this Notice. Respondents will not be notified of the results of this evaluation. Capability statements will not be returned and will not be accepted after the due date. Pursuant to 48 C.F.R. Part 10, the Government is conducting market research to: • Determine what sources exist that can satisfy the Government's requirements listed below • Determine the capabilities of potential contractors • Determine the size and status of potential sources • Determine the level of competition The Department's acquisition workforce is composed of approx. 360 contracting officers (CO) and contracting specialists (CS) that issue awards valued at over $6B per fiscal year. As required by Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 4.6, the Department reports all contracts actions that are valued as $3K or more to the Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation (FPDS-NG). FPDS-NG is an automated system used to collect and report on federal procurement spending and serves as the U.S. Government's single authoritative repository for federal procurement award data for all contracts valued at $3K or more. As the U.S. Government's official repository for acquisition-related data, it is imperative that the data contained in FPDS-NG is valid and accurate. The purpose of this Source Sought Notice is to identify any available vendors that can provide a COTS built automated data validation services (ADVS) that can identify suspected or known FPDS-NG errors to ensure that the entered FPDS-NG data is valid and accurate, provide automated feedback to the FPDS-NG data submitter in a timely fashion and provide supervisory oversight in a time sensitive manner through automated notifications and a dashboard. Interested parties are invited to submit a capability statement. To successfully perform the work, a contractor must be able to provide a ready built ADVS for FPDS data. Attachment(s): RFI Instructions and DRAFT SOW