[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 16, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28388-28389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-7365]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Federal Bureau of Investigation


Notice of Intent To Publish a Request for Proposal for the 
Selection of Channelers

AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.

ACTION: Notice of intent to publish a Request for Proposal for the 
selection of Channelers requiring access to criminal history record 
information for noncriminal justice purposes pursuant to the National 
Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Council's Outsourcing Rule and 
Standard.

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SUMMARY: The FBI intends to publish a Request For Proposal (RFP) in an 
effort to select a limited number of third parties to serve as 
Channelers. Channelers will receive noncriminal justice applicant 
fingerprint submissions and collect associated fees, ensure fingerprint 
submissions are properly and adequately completed, electronically 
forward fingerprint submissions to the FBI's Criminal Justice 
Information Services (CJIS) Division for national noncriminal justice 
criminal history record checks, and receive electronic record check 
results for dissemination to Authorized Recipients that are permitted 
access to criminal history record information (CHRI) pursuant to 
Federal statute, Federal Executive order, or a State statute that has 
been approved by the United States Attorney General.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Kathrina L. Sliger, FBI 
Contracting Officer, Information Technology Contracts Unit, FBI CJIS 
Division, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Module E-3, Clarksburg, WV 26306; 
telephone (304) 625-4142; e-mail [email protected]; fax number (304) 625-
5391.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FBI's Criminal Justice Information 
Services (CJIS) Division, Clarksburg, West Virginia, provides 
identification services based on fingerprints and maintains a national 
repository of fingerprint identification information. Since 1999, the 
FBI has performed identification services using the Integrated 
Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The IAFIS is 
designed to process fingerprint information electronically.
    The National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Act of 1998 
(Compact) (title 42, United States Code, sections 14611-14616) provides 
a legal framework for the cooperative exchange of criminal history 
records for noncriminal justice purposes. The Compact established a 
fifteen-member National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Council 
(Council), whose members are appointed by the United States Attorney 
General, to promulgate rules, procedures, and standards governing the 
use of the Interstate Identification Index (III) CHRI for noncriminal 
justice purposes.
    The Council published the ``Outsourcing of Noncriminal Justice 
Administrative Functions'' Interim

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Final Rule (IFR) and two ``Security and Management Control Outsourcing 
Standards'' (Outsourcing Standards) in the Federal Register (FR) on 
December 16, 2004. See 69 FR 75243 and 69 FR 75350, respectively. The 
Council adopted the IFR as a final rule and published a combined 
Outsourcing Standard in the Federal Register on December 15, 2005. See 
70 FR 74200 and 70 FR 74373, respectively. The rule permits an 
Authorized Recipient of CHRI to outsource noncriminal justice 
administrative functions relating to the processing of CHRI to a third 
party, subject to appropriate controls. The rule states that contracts 
or agreements providing for authorized outsourcing ``shall incorporate 
by reference a security and management control outsourcing standard 
approved by the Compact Council after consultation with the United 
States Attorney General.''
    The purpose of this notice is to provide interested parties advance 
notice that the FBI will soon publish an RFP for Channelers pursuant to 
the Council's Outsourcing Rule and Standard. The number of Channelers 
that will eventually be approved is unknown at this time; however, the 
FBI will strive to strike a balance between the number of Channelers it 
has the capability to administer (i.e. the number of CJIS Wide Area 
Network connections the FBI may reasonably establish during the first 
year of this initiative) and the number needed to effectively and 
efficiently serve the needs of Authorized Recipients. The RFP is 
expected to be advertised in the FedBizOpps, formerly the Commerce 
Business Daily, within 30 days of publishing this notice.

    Dated: April 6, 2006.
David Cuthbertson,
Section Chief, Programs Development Section, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation.
 [FR Doc. E6-7365 Filed 5-15-06; 8:45 am]
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