The Economic Indicator Monitoring (EIM) contract will serve as an avenue for NGA to monitor economic activity in support of its mission to understand economic and trade trends that affect economic and military capabilities worldwide. NGA will leverage commercial collection and processing capabilities including, but not limited to, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) algorithms, to efficiently quantify economic capacity, utilization, and activity.

The Request for Proposal (RFP) HM157521R0009 and supporting Attachments were posted to the UNCLASSIFIED Intelligence Community Acquisition Research Center (IC-ARC) website (https://acq.westfields.net/) on 23 April 2021. Potential Offerors should monitor the IC-ARC website for any updates and amendments to any and all documents.  All questions shall be submitted using the Q&A Template attached to the solicitation. Questions are due no later than 6 May 2021 at 0900am CST to the following individuals.

Timothy Hull at [email protected]

and

Ryan Switzer at [email protected]”

The vendor must be approved and registered in System for Award Management (SAM) before award can be made.

Instructions to access the IC-ARC websites are provided below:

1) For accessing the UNCLASSIFIED ARC, you must create an account on the UNCLASSIFIED ARC at

https://acq.westfields.net/.

2) ACE Helpdesk support can be reached at (703) 230-6300 if you have any issues with PKI certifications or logging onto the ARC on a contractor system.