Comprehensive Solution to Real-Time Access to Nationwide Secondary Market Data

This Sources Sought Notice is for market research purposes only and is not a request for quotes. The ATF is seeking information on potential solutions to enable personnel to identify the source of recovered crime guns and other secondary market items, and to support criminal investigations. The required capability must include querying of firearm identifiers, investigative queries, transaction linking, advanced search, and historical data access, supporting both ad hoc and bulk queries with scalability for future workloads. A critical requirement is that the solution only provide Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to ATF in response to individual submissions for active criminal investigations, limited to individuals who previously divested firearm ownership – and not to purchasers – and never in response to batch firearm trace queries. Vendors should describe system APIs and data exchange capabilities, including interfaces with NCIC records and other law enforcement datasets. Responses are due NLT December 17, 2025, at 2:00 PM ET, and questions should be submitted NLT December 13, 2025, to Amanda Boshears at amanda.boshears@atf.gov.

Notice ID

8004af3a3882473b81c6b755027a36e9

Solicitation Number

NationwideSecondaryMarketData2025

NAICS Code

518210

Classification Code

DA10