Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Scanner
Deadline: 18 Sep 2025
Posting Date: 13 Sep 2025
Other Information
Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 126241925
Document Ref. No.: 15A00025Q00000116
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Description
Overview of NTC
The mission of the NTC is to conduct firearms tracing and associated programs and processes accurately and efficiently for International, Federal, State, and Local law enforcement agencies to provide investigative leads. The NTC serves as the central repository of all crime gun trace data, multiple handgun sales information, Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) theft/loss of firearms information, Interstate theft/loss of firearms information, and over 800 million firearms transaction records submitted by out of business FFLs. The purpose of firearms tracing is to (1) link a suspect to a firearm in a criminal investigation; (2) identify potential firearms traffickers, and (3) to identify recurring patterns and trends indicative of illegal firearms trafficking. Analysis of the collective crime gun trace histories assists law enforcement in developing focused strategies to violent gun crime.
The NTC requires contractor support of NTC operations in Martinsburg, West Virginia
at the National Services Center. These activities include several broad tasks; Firearms Tracing; Out-of-Business Records (OBR) Processing; Stolen Firearms Program; Data Entry (for Firearms Trace Requests, Reports of Multiple Sales for Handguns; Demand Letter 1, 2, and 3 responses); Firearms Services; Coding and Quality Assurance support; Tracing Operations support; NTC Connect support; and IT Support Customer Service Line Support.NTC operates under the statutory authority of the Gun Control Act, which restricts ATF from capturing and maintaining a database of individual firearm owner information. This restriction prevents ATF from leveraging full Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology as part of the document imaging process, which is common practice in most large-scale document conversion operations. Records that are processed using OCR software are capable of being searched for specific character strings, which in the case of firearm records would incl...
Active Contract Opportunity
Notice ID : 15A00025Q00000116
Related Notice
Department/Ind. Agency : JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF
Sub-tier : ATF ACQUISITION AND PROPERTY MGMT DIV
Office: ATF
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation (Original)
Original Published Date: Sep 12, 2025 03:10 pm EDT
Original Date Offers Due: Sep 18, 2025 12:00 pm EDT
Inactive Policy: 15 days after date offers due
Original Inactive Date: Oct 03, 2025
Initiative: None
Classification
Original Set Aside:
Product Service Code: 7C20 - IT AND TELECOM - DATA CENTER PRODUCTS (HARDWARE AND PERPETUAL LICENSE SOFTWARE)
NAICS Code: 334118 - Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
Place of Performance: Martinsburg, WV USA
Documents
Tender Notice
NTC-SOW-Requirements-Document-6.pdf
Solicitation-15A00025Q00000116_20250912.pdf