AI-Powered Tool for Automated Evaluation of Vendor Economic Dependency

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is seeking an artificial intelligence-driven tool to automate the assessment of economic dependency for vendors within its supply chain. The agency needs to solve the manual burden of identifying significant vendor relationships and assessing whether those vendors rely too heavily on agency contracts for their financial survival. The desired solution must integrate with existing business systems to automatically retrieve publicly available financial data and perform these evaluations. The scope of work covers the development and delivery of an artificial intelligence-powered tool that operates entirely within a secure government environment. The final software must provide fully auditable and traceable results so the agency can verify the automated financial assessments. All development and performance of the work will take place offsite. Only organizations based onshore in the United States are eligible to bid on this opportunity. The agency is currently looking for proposals to determine the budget and has not disclosed a pre-set funding limit. The solicitation does not specify explicit evaluation criteria or key dates in the initial announcement, and the agency expects bidders to propose their own timelines and cost structures.