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 implementation of this automated tool, which must operate securely within a government environment. The final software must provide fully auditable and traceable results to justify the dependency assessments. All performance of the work will take place offsite. Eligible bidders must be onshore organizations based in the United States. The agency is currently looking for proposals to determine the budget and has not disclosed a specific funding limit or pricing structure. The source document does not specify the evaluation criteria or key milestone dates for this procurement.