Sources Sought
Address List Field Augmentation Data
Department of Commerce · U.S. Census Bureau
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AI summaryThis is a sources sought notice (market research only, no solicitation) from the U.S. Census Bureau to find small businesses that can sell address and location data for homes and group living places in rural and remote areas, such as parts of Alaska, Maine, the American Southwest and Puerto Rico. SAM.gov lists it as a total small business set-aside. Interested firms send a short capability response of no more than 7 pages by the response due date of November 6, 2026, 12:00 PM Eastern. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells U.S. Census Bureau who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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This is a sources sought notice (market research only, no solicitation) from the U.S. Census Bureau to find small businesses that can sell address and location data for homes and group living places in rural and remote areas, such as parts of Alaska, Maine, the American Southwest and Puerto Rico. SAM.gov lists it as a total small business set-aside. Interested firms send a short capability response of no more than 7 pages by the response due date of November 6, 2026, 12:00 PM Eastern.
Who can bid
- Small business: SAM.gov lists the set-aside as Small Business Set Aside - Total; the Census Bureau wants to hear from small businesses including small disadvantaged, 8(a), service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone and women-owned firms
How to submit: Send the response to the points of contact: Harjot Kaur, Contracting Officer (Harjot.Kaur@census.gov) and Jim Brooks, Contract Specialist (James.N.Brooks.Jr@census.gov). What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (6)
From the version posted Oct 16, 2026.
- Serious: Small business set-aside. SAM.gov lists this as a total small business set-aside, so only small businesses under NAICS 518210 should respond.
- Worth checking: Market research only; no solicitation. There is no solicitation, requests for one get no response, and the Government does not plan to award based only on this research.
- Worth checking: Data becomes Census Bureau property with indefinite use rights. The Census Bureau will mix the data with its own, keep it indefinitely and use it for approved Title 13 purposes; all licensing costs must be in the fixed price.
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- Minor: Strict 7-page limit. The market research answers must fit in 7 pages in 12-pitch font; company information is outside the count.
- Minor: Delivery interval differs: monthly or quarterly/semi-annual. The performance work statement (PWS) says data is ingested monthly, while the notice asks about intervals such as quarterly or semi-annually; the PWS says the timing is to be agreed.
- Minor: Collection zones not yet final. The list of areas to cover is still to be determined; Appendix B is only a sample and is subject to change, so the data volume and price are uncertain.
Read from the notice and 2 attachments. Show which files.
- Attachment 1 - Performance Work Statement.pdf (read)
- Address List Field Augmentation Data - Sources Sought Notice.pdf (read)
Full summary
What they want
- Provide address and location data for living quarters in areas not covered by city-style addresses, the Postal Service Delivery Sequence File or national parcel datasets
- Give address points as x,y coordinates accurate to a minimum of 5 decimal places, in the FGDC Address Standard format
- Include file-level metadata (collection date and source, data owner, license limits, coordinate reference system, coordinate position)
- Deliver a data quality report covering completeness, logical consistency, positional accuracy, temporal quality (data no older than 5 years) and thematic accuracy
- Let the Census Bureau load the data in a common machine-readable format on a regular (monthly) basis
- Provide technical support: acknowledge an inquiry within 8 business hours and resolve it within 48 business hours
- Contract type
- Fixed price (the data pricing is to be a fixed price in the contract award); this notice is market research, not a solicitation
- Place of performance
- Suitland, MD, USA (SAM.gov); the data covers areas such as remote Alaska and Maine, the American Southwest and rural Puerto Rico
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 6, 2026, 12:00 PM (Noon) Eastern Time
- How to submit
- Send the response to the points of contact: Harjot Kaur, Contracting Officer (Harjot.Kaur@census.gov) and Jim Brooks, Contract Specialist (James.N.Brooks.Jr@census.gov)
- Page limits
- Response to the market research questions: no more than 7 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, 12-pitch font (company information does not count toward the page count)
What to include when you submit
- Company information (not counted in the page limit): company name and address, CAGE Code, Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), business size under NAICS 518210, socio-economic status, Federal Supply Schedule or GWAC number if any, point of contact, phone, email and web page.
- Describe the approaches, technologies, data sources or methods you would use, such as satellite imagery, field surveys, third-party data or public records.
- Describe your ability to securely deliver data in the required formats and attributes on regular agreed intervals.
- Describe how you ensure data quality, the risks of rural and remote address data, and how you handle discrepancies.
- Describe your ability to work with tribal governments to develop or acquire address data.
- Describe your price structure at the individual address level and for larger sets (county, census tract, census block), including quality control costs, and your licensing terms and use limits.
Current contractor
No incumbent is named, and no previous contract is mentioned.
Not in the notice text
- Contract length, options, quantity of data and total value are not stated.
- The final list of address collection zones is to be determined; Appendix B is a representative sample.
- Evaluation factors and award method are not given because no solicitation has been issued.
Eligibility and how to respond
- If it goes ahead as planned: set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 518210
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 16, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- Dept of Commerce Census, Suitland, MD
- Business type
- IT, software & telecom (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 518210)
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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